Disputes with banks are one of the most common and at the same time complex categories of cases considered by the courts. As a rule, in such cases, banking institutions are the plaintiffs, and their clients are the defendants.
Lending is one of the most demanded banking services. To ensure the fulfillment of credit obligations, banks use additional (accessory) obligations, such as forfeit, surety, pledge and mortgage.
As a result of non-fulfillment or improper fulfillment of the main (credit) obligation, the bank has the right to calculate a forfeit and can satisfy its claims at the expense of the guarantor and collateral or mortgage property.
The agreements that the bank offers are in the form of a form or another standard form, that is, the terms of such an agreement are established by only one party – the bank. At the same time, a person who concludes an agreement with a bank does not always have the necessary amount of knowledge for an objective assessment of the essence of the agreement and the possible consequences of its conclusion.
However, the procedure for collecting debt on a loan, filing claims against the guarantor and foreclosure on the subject of a mortgage are also regulated by the Civil Code of Ukraine and other regulatory legal acts, compliance with which is mandatory.
A proper legal assessment of the agreements concluded with the bank and the competent application of legislative norms allows avoiding the loss of mortgage property, releasing the guarantor from his obligations, obtaining a refusal in the court to satisfy the bank’s claim for the collection of credit debt or a significant reduction in its size, remove arrests from property, cancel the ban on leaving abroad and delete the entry from the register of debtors.
Also, a separate category of banking matters are disputes about the return of deposits by the bank. It is not seldom problematic to achieve the return of a deposit in a pre-trial procedure, especially in the case of a bank being declared insolvent and liquidating, but both the amount of the deposit and the interest on it are collected in court.