Category: Collections

(ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 24, 2016) – The Maryland Judiciary is warning the public about a new telephone scam that uses the threat of lawsuits in local courts to extort money or obtain personal information from people by leading them to believe that they are the subjects of legal actions. The new scam, which has been  … Read more

In a commercial setting parties frequently develop a course of dealing with one another as sellers and buyers of goods in which goods are delivered upon the request of a buyer to a seller and there no one present when the goods are delivered to obtain a signature on the delivery invoice. In a recent  … Read more

On October 6, 2015, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland released its opinion in Glen Valley Builders, LLC v. James Whang, et al. In Glen Valley an LLC entered into a contract to improve a residence. The contract was guaranteed by the principal owner of Glen Valley. Disputes arose between Glen Valley and the  … Read more

In an opinion released On October 1, 2015, the Court of Special Appeals in Morgan Stanley & Co., Inv. v. Andrews held that the mere fact that money was placed into a joint back account would not necessarily allow a judgment creditor of only one of the parties to successfully garnish the account. In Morgan  … Read more