By Raphaël MORENON
5 April 2025
In our previous article, we explored precautionary measures, essential legal tools for protecting your debts when their recovery is threatened. Preventive attachment is undoubtedly the most direct way of 'freezing' your debtor's assets before they disappear. It is a preventive action aimed at making some of your debtor's assets unavailable. It can take a number of different forms, but we will concentrate here on two particularly common and effective types: seizure of tangible assets (cars, stocks, equipment, etc.) and seizure of receivables (particularly money held in bank accounts). Although very effective in securing what is owed to you, these seizures follow precise rules that you need to master. We'll look at how they work, what their effects are and how they can lead to payment. Attachment of tangible movable property This measure makes it possible to...