Terms Used In Texas Finance Code 306.007

  • Forbearance: A means of handling a delinquent loan. A
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005

With respect to a commercial loan, an obligor may be required to assume, pay, or provide a guaranty of another person‘s existing or future obligation as a condition of the obligor’s own use, forbearance, or detention of money. The amount of the other person’s obligation required to be assumed, paid, or guaranteed does not constitute interest with respect to any obligation of the obligor.