Articles Posted in “Full Payment Checks”

I tried a case recently which made it clear that the way I did it might be a little out of the ordinary.  Whether that’s a good or bad thing, is up to you. It was a bench trial, so it was just the parties presenting their cases to a…

We’ve previously discussed the problem of partial payments being disguised as payments in full, and how this can prevent a New York Business from collecting the full amount a customer owes it. Depositing a check, marked payment in full, normally creates an Accord and Satisfaction, which discharges the remainder of…

In our last entry, we spoke about a fairly common problem most New York Businesses have encountered: Where a customer/client makes a partial payment but tries to pass it off as payment in full for the money it owes. We also presented a way a business can protect itself: By…