Hiday & Ricke handles consumer and business bankruptcy matters for creditors in all Florida Bankruptcy Courts including:

• Motions for relief from the automatic stay
• Objections to plans/confirmation
• Responses to motion-to-value (“cram down” motions), claim objections, lien avoidance reaffirmation agreements, mortgage modification mediations and proofs of claim

• Management of commercial portfolio and consumer debt matters
• Initiation of all permissible collection efforts
• File suits through to judgment
• Post judgment recovery activities such as garnishments and executions
• Domestication of out of state and federal judgments

Replevin is a process used in Florida to recover collateral through swift court action when repossession is not possible. Hiday & Ricke pursues expedient recovery of collateral through a prejudgment writ (bond replevin action) without notice to the defendant.

Hiday & Ricke works with commercial clients in all areas of debtor and creditor matters. Our lawyers and staff are experienced and motivated to act promptly to maximize your bottom line.

• Statewide coverage––so there’s no need to manage multiple firms
• Comprehensive litigation––from industry-standard collection efforts to litigation to judgment enforcement when required
• Judgment recovery––including garnishments, executions and post-judgment discovery for the life of the judgment
• Secure online account management––provides status reports, document access, client file uploads and a private legal library

We offer services related to residential and commercial foreclosures of mortgages. Following the sales of the properties, we can then move for a deficiency judgment on the balance. We are a full service collection firm so we can then make every attempt to collect on that deficiency judgment.

Hiday & Ricke represents America’s best-known insurance companies throughout Florida in all types of subrogation matters including property damage, bodily injury and products liability.

• Statewide legal staff––so there’s no need to manage multiple firms
• Comprehensive litigation
• Judgment recovery––including garnishments, executions and post-judgment discovery for the life of the judgment
• Secure online account management––provides status reports, document access, client file uploads and a private legal library

Jeff began his career in law in 1981 as an Assistant State Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit in Jacksonville first as a trial attorney and then as a Division Chief. He earned both his bachelor’s and law degree from Florida State University and has been admitted to practice before the Federal Court of the Middle District of Florida.

Jeff has been in private practice since graduating from the University of Miami School of Law in 1988. He joined Hiday & Ricke in 1995, became a shareholder in 1998 and the vice president in 2017. With an emphasis on bankruptcy creditor’s rights matters, Jeff specializes in both commercial and bankruptcy law and handles collections cases and subrogation claims.

Based in Ft. Lauderdale, Melissa is a shareholder who focuses on subrogation matters, including all litigation––from pre-suit through post-judgment recovery. She is a graduate of the William Mitchell College of Law and the University of Central Florida.

Joe is a shareholder based in Plantation, and has been with the firm since 2004. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Nevada – Las Vegas in 1997 and earned his law degree from Nova Southeastern University – Shepard Broad Law Center in 2001. Joe has been working in private practice since graduating law school and is licensed to practice law in the following states:

Based in Tampa, Cathy handles all subrogation matters for the firm in the southwestern areas of Florida. She is experienced in all areas of litigation.

Prior to joining Hiday & Ricke, P.A. in 2005, Jennifer practiced bankruptcy law for 8 years in the Middle District of Florida. She earned her undergraduate degree and Bachelor of Arts from Florida State University. Jennifer attended Samford University, Cumberland School of Law where she earned her law degree in 1997.

Linda received her bachelor’s degree from Florida International University and her law degree from Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Board College of Law where she graduated summa cum laude in 2014. She has been a steady advocate for creditor’s rights since 2015, working full-time as an attorney on consumer, commercial and subrogation-related matters.

Now of counsel attorney for Hiday & Ricke, Rob was an Assistant State Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit, before he opened the firm in 1984. A native of Jacksonville, he started his career as a police officer while attending college.