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Florida, can we pay the trades directly of our contractor that has filed a Chapter 11.

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We hired a shell contractor that filed a chapter 11 before finishing the job and/or billing us and learned he stopped paying his trades a while back. 4 trades did not file NTO's and we want to pay them and then settle the remainder with the shell contractor. The contractor wants us to pay them what is owed so they can put the money in the pot and settle with the trades they have to. Basically these small vendors are either going to get pennies on the dollar or nothing at all. I want to pay them and give the shell contractor the receipts and releases with their remaining monies. Can we legally do that or just the vendors smart enough to file NTO's.

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Jul 14, 2020

You need to contact an attorney to help walk you through this process. Florida's cosntruction lien law details how a property owner can make payments to subcontractors. Further, with the bankruptcy, there may be further limitations on what you can and cannot pay out to subcontractors. Feel free to reach out if you have any other questions. 

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Jul 14, 2020
Very helpful. It's time for me to sit down and read the lien law, which I am schooled in every 2 years but this has never come up.
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