What belongs on FL-142 item 14
Promissory notes, loans to family, accounts receivable, unpaid reimbursements, installment rights and other enforceable payment claims.
Use a description that a second reviewer can match to a statement, title record, contract or the opposing disclosure. Record the value state—known, estimated, unknown, pending or none—instead of treating every empty cell as zero.
The source record for money owed and receivables
- Signed note, contract, invoice or judgment
- Payment history and current accounting
- Communications about dispute or collectability
- Security, guaranty and limitation records
Completeness checks before service
- Confirm every money owed and receivables item has an identifier and custodian or location.
- Tie every amount to an as-of date and retain the source.
- List disputed and unvalued items visibly rather than excluding them.
- Recompute the form totals from the underlying rows and check for duplication.
What moves forward
The ledger entry must preserve its form item, date, value, debt, asserted character and evidence status. That same identity carries into characterization, valuation, negotiation and any final transfer. Face amount is not necessarily collectible value. Identify interest, maturity, default, security, counterclaims, collection cost and probability assumptions.
Questions about this topic
What is the biggest disclose mistake for money owed and receivables?
Omitting or combining the item so it cannot be matched to its source.
Can the workspace decide this disclose issue automatically?
It can preserve facts, run arithmetic and expose assumptions. Disputed legal conclusions, professional valuations and third-party transfer decisions still require the appropriate human or institution.
Continue the workflow
California property workflows from disclosure through transfer
Asset-by-asset California workflows for disclosure, characterization, valuation, negotiation and transfer across all FL-142 categories.
Receivables and other assets on California form FL-142
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A safer California property-settlement workflow
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