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CREDITORS' RIGHTS, BANKRUPTCY
AND RESTRUCTURING

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  Construction Law

  Corporate & Securities

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  & Restructuring


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  and Exempt Organizations


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The ScottHulse Law Firm's Creditors' Rights, Bankruptcy and Restructuring attorneys represent a wide range of clients based throughout the United States and Mexico, including both secured and unsecured retailers, manufacturers, asset and judgment purchasers, lenders, factors, and other financial institutions. They also have substantial experience in landlord-tenant matters and both personal and real property foreclosure actions.

Our creditor's rights attorneys in El Paso, Texas, and Las Cruces, New Mexico, attorneys have distinguished themselves in this area. Stuart R. Schwartz is Co-Editor of the premier compendium of debtor-creditor law in Texas, the Texas Collections Manual, published by the State Bar of Texas. He has also authored and lectured over 50 times in 20 years for both the State Bar of Texas and the University of Houston Law Foundation on numerous topics pertaining to pre- and post-Judgment debt collection remedies (including attachment, sequestration, execution, garnishment, receiverships, and turnover). Stuart is also one of only a handful of attorneys in the State of Texas board certified in Creditors' Rights Law by the American Board of Certification.

Our bankruptcy lawyers represent both secured and unsecured creditors in the areas of cash collateral, assumption or rejections of leases and executory contracts, stay relief, property sales, preference actions, plan confirmation matters, and discharge issues. We have extensive experience in workouts and debt restructuring, and regularly draw on the expertise of our corporate, real estate, tax and commercial litigation attorneys to augment advice provided to our clients.


REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
  • Successfully prosecuted thousands of claims for money or property against both commercial and consumer debtors; collected millions of dollars on their behalf.
  • Domesticated numerous foreign judgments and pursued collection of those judgments against Texas debtors.
  • Obtained court orders requiring debtors to turn over non-exempt assets to be sold in aid of judgment.
  • Successfully appointed receivers to take control of the assets of both sole proprietorships and other business entities and obtained court approval to sell them to satisfy judgments.
  • Successfully sequestered pharmaceuticals on behalf of a national drug retailer from a defaulting drug store operator.
  • Garnished numerous bank accounts, both pre- and post-judgment, as part of the normal collection process.
  • Represented landlords in lock-out situations and post-possession collection efforts.
  • Pursued numerous forcible detainer actions against defaulting tenants.
  • Represented the primary creditor in the Chapter 7 bankruptcy case of a primary care hospital.


REPORTED CASES

Padilla v. NCJ Dev., Inc., 218 S.W. 3d 811 (Tex. App.- El Paso 2007, pet. denied)

Cordova v. Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages, Inc ., 148 S.W. 3d 441 (Tex. App.-El Paso 2004, no pet.)

Morgan v. Verlander, 225 S.W.3d 558 (Tex. App.-El Paso 2000, pet. denied)

Girdley v. Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages, Inc . 869 S.W.2d 409 (Tex. App.-El Paso 1993, writ denied)

KEY CONTACTS

Stuart R. Schwartz
  Chairman

Robert R. Feuille
  Creditors' Rights Attorney

Bernard D. Felsen
  Creditors' Rights Attorney

Casey S. Stevenson
  Creditors' Rights Attorney



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