Collection efforts after bankruptcy are illegal. Pretty simple stuff, actually â if a debt is discharged, nobody can collect from you for ever and ever, amen. The trick is to know what happens if a creditor does, in fact, try to collect after bankruptcy. Are they breaking the bankruptcy laws and, if so, what is the penalty? Most courts have held that there is no private remedy for the violation of the discharge injunction. The remedy is by bringing a lawsuit for contempt of a court order, which leads to sanctions and an award of legal fees.
France signed preliminary articles of peace with Great Britain on January 20, 1783, followed by a formal peace of Paris signed on September 3, 1783. The illustration above, a copy of a sketch by the studio of Benjamin West, shows the American negotiators of the Peace of Paris.
The AdamsâOnÃ­s Treaty of 1819, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty, the Florida Purchase Treaty, or the Florida Treaty, was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain. It settled a standing border dispute between the two countries and was considered a triumph of American diplomacy. It came in the midst of increasing tensions related to Spain's territorial boundaries in North America ...