How Can You Protect Notes Receivable or Other Monies Due to You?
Posted on Sep 29, 2020 5:53am PDT
Money owed in the form a note or accounts receivable is often times overlooked
as an important Asset to protect. If a third parties owes you personally
or your business money, that is an asset a creditor can take from you.
The first step to protecting promissory notes or money owed is to make
sure that the note is memorialized in writing. Next, the note payable
should not be owed to you personally or your business directly. The note
should be paid to a separate protective entity. We recommend having a
separate LLC own the note directly. The LLC is ideal for insulating yourself
from being personally liable for any potential litigation tied to the
note and likewise it protects your receivables from any personal litigation
or liabilities.
Another alternative to protect accounts receivables is to sell your receivables
to a factor that will purchase the receivables at a discounted price.
You can also sell mortgages or other notes due to you, as well as judgments
or other claims against third parties. Or you might accelerate payment
of the receivable by offering an attractive discount. You can certainly
more easily protect cash than you can money due you on a note. Once the
accounts receivables are converted into cash, you can use both domestic
and International entities to better protect the cash. Again, you will
want to title notes, mortgages, structured settlements and other significant
future monies due to a protective entity. We may also pledge the note
as collateral security to a more friendly creditor to equity-strip it.
For more information on Asset Protection contact The Presser Law Firm, P.A.
6199 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton, FL 33487
(561) 953-1050
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