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Read moreLatest & Greatest – Texas Collections Manual, Fifth Edition
A Project of the Texas Collections Manual Committee
Published by TexasBarBooks
KFT 1367 .C6 T49 2018
One of our newest acquisitions from the State Bar of Texas is Texas Collections Manual, Fifth Edition. Prepared and written by the Texas Collections Manual Committee, Texas Collections Manual is a practice guide for Texas lawyers who handle collections matters. Like other titles offered by the State Bar, each chapter of the manual features handy and useful forms and practice notes that discuss and analyze the issues and topics addressed in that chapter. In this manual, you will find explanatory material and forms relating to, among other things:
- Debt collection, including a discussion of maintaining a debt collection law practice;
- self-help repossession;
- prejudgment and postjudgment remedies;
- creation and enforcement of liens, including mechanic’s liens;
- petitions and causes of action;
- trial and pretrial procedure;
- landlord-tenant law concerning commercial and residential property leases;
- claims procedure in probate and guardianship matters; and
- bankruptcy issues.
Come to the Law Library and ask for Texas Collections Manual, Fifth Edition at the reference desk.
