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Boca Raton Debt Collection Attorneys

Collecting a debt or judgment, city by city.

Quick summary: Boca Raton is Palm Beach County’s corporate office market, so its debtors are often headquarters, professional firms, and tech companies with receivables and office leases. The closest courthouse is in Delray Beach.

Hand-tinted postcard-style illustration of the Boca Raton Hotel and Club, Boca Raton, Florida, in the style of about 1930
The Boca Raton Hotel and Club, as a picture postcard of about 1930 might have shown it. (Illustration.)

Boca Raton is where much of Palm Beach County’s corporate office work happens. The city reports that it is home to more than half of the county’s corporate headquarters and more than 12 million square feet of Class A office space. The industries it recruits include financial and professional services, information technology, life sciences, aerospace and aviation, and logistics and distribution.

That mix produces a particular kind of debt: office leases, professional service invoices, technology contracts, equipment financing, and personal guaranties signed by owners. Boca Raton cases are filed with the Palm Beach County Clerk, in Florida’s Fifteenth Judicial Circuit.

For creditors and referring attorneys

Creditors with Boca Raton files are often commercial landlords, equipment and software vendors, staffing firms, and lenders to growing companies. Many of those deals came with a personal guaranty. We read the documents first and tell you who you can actually hold responsible.

Referring attorneys can send us Palm Beach County enforcement work, including judgments from other states that must first be domesticated in Florida.

Collecting a debt or judgment in Boca Raton

A Boca Raton debtor is less likely to own a warehouse full of inventory and more likely to hold bank balances, client receivables, and an office lease. Its owners may have signed personal guaranties. The tools that fit here:

  • Personal guaranties signed by owners: suing the guarantors alongside the company
  • Client receivables at professional and tech firms: garnishment of what those clients owe
  • Corporate bank accounts: a writ of garnishment served on the bank
  • Interests in related LLCs: a charging order on the debtor’s share

Our judgment enforcement page covers each option.

The venue: South County Courthouse, Delray Beach

Boca Raton cases are filed with the Palm Beach County Clerk. Circuit civil is heard at the Hurley Courthouse in West Palm Beach, and the closest courthouse to Boca Raton is the South County Courthouse on West Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach. We confirm with the Clerk which location hears a given matter. The Fifteenth Circuit’s uniform case management order must be served with the summons, and continuances are disfavored. Appeals go to the Fourth District Court of Appeal.

Frequently asked questions

The company closed its Boca office and stopped paying rent. Can we still collect?

Often, yes. Closing an office doesn’t erase the lease. If the owners signed a guaranty, they’re responsible too, and the company may still have accounts or receivables elsewhere.

Is a Boca Raton case heard in Boca Raton?

Usually not. Cases are filed with the Palm Beach County Clerk, and the courthouse closest to Boca Raton is the South County Courthouse in Delray Beach. Circuit civil matters are heard in West Palm Beach. We confirm the location when we file.

Bottom line: If a Boca Raton business owes you money, contact us or call (813) 229-0900. We’ll find out who signed, who guaranteed, and what can be reached.

Nearby: West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Miami.

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