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Florida’s Consumer Collection Practices Act (FCCPA) Part 1: Understanding the FCCPA

/ Owner - May 14, 2020

All businesses in the state of Florida need to be familiar with Florida’s Consumer Collection Practices Act (“FCCPA”). The FCCPA is found at Sections 559.55-559.785 of the Florida Statutes. The FCCPA is intended to protect consumers and is intentionally unfair to creditors. See §559.552, Fla. Stat. (2019); Kelly v. Duggan, 282 So. 3d 969, 974 (Fla. 1st DCA 2019) (acknowledging the court’s statutory obligation to construe the FCCPA in a manner that is protective of the consumer). The FCCPA allows for consumers to sue creditors for small, technical violations of the statute.    Read the article………………………….

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