Texas Fair Debt Collection Statute–Fort Worth, Texas Collections Law Attorneys

Texas Fair Debt Collection Statute

 

Finance Code

 

Chapter 392. Debt Collection

 

Subchapter A. General Provisions

 

Texas Fair Debt Collection Practices Act § 392.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:

 

 

(1) “Consumer” means an individual who has a consumer debt.

 

(2) “Consumer debt” means an obligation, or an alleged obligation, primarily for personal, family, or household purposes and arising from a transaction or alleged transaction.

 

(3) “Creditor” means a party, other than a consumer, to a transaction or alleged transaction involving one or more consumers.

 

(4) “Credit bureau” means a person who, for compensation, gathers, records, and disseminates information relating to the creditworthiness, financial responsibility, and paying habits of, and similar information regarding, a person for the purpose of furnishing that information to another person.

 

(5) “Debt collection” means an action, conduct, or practice in collecting, or in soliciting for collection, consumer debts that are due or alleged to be due a creditor.

 

(6) “Debt collector” means a person who directly or indirectly engages in debt collection and includes a person who sells or offers to sell forms represented to be a collection system, device, or scheme intended to be used to collect consumer debts.

 

(7) “Third-party debt collector” means a debt collector, as defined by 15 U.S.C. Section 1692a(6), but does not include an attorney collecting a debt as an attorney on behalf of and in the name of a client unless the attorney has nonattorney employees who:

 

 

(A) are regularly engaged to solicit debts for collection; or

 

(B) regularly make contact with debtors for the purpose of collection or adjustment of debts.

 

Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1008, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, § 7.42, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. SUBCHAPTER B. SURETY BOND

 

Williams, McClure & Parmelee is dedicated to high quality legal representation of businesses and insurance companies in a variety of matters. We are experienced Fort Worth, Texas collections lawyers in Tarrant County who know Texas courts and Texas law. For more information, please contact the law firm at 817-335-8800. The firm’s office location is 5601 Bridge Street, Suite 300, Fort Worth, Texas 76112.

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