50 USC § 4026 - Business or trade obligations

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identifier: "/us/usc/t50/s4026"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "50 USC § 4026 - Business or trade obligations"
title_number: 50
title_name: "WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE"
section_number: "4026"
section_name: "Business or trade obligations"
chapter_number: 50
chapter_name: "SERVICEMEMBERS CIVIL RELIEF"
subchapter_number: "VII"
subchapter_name: "FURTHER RELIEF"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-21"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Oct. 17, 1940, ch. 888, title VII, § 706, as added Pub. L. 108–189, § 1, Dec. 19, 2003, 117 Stat. 2865.)"
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# § 4026. Business or trade obligations

**(a)** **Availability of non-business assets to satisfy obligations** If the trade or business (without regard to the form in which such trade or business is carried out) of a servicemember has an obligation or liability for which the servicemember is personally liable, the assets of the servicemember not held in connection with the trade or business may not be available for satisfaction of the obligation or liability during the servicemember’s military service.

**(b)** **Relief to obligors** Upon application to a court by the holder of an obligation or liability covered by this section, relief granted by this section to a servicemember may be modified as justice and equity require.

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**Source Credit**: (Oct. 17, 1940, ch. 888, title VII, § 706, as added Pub. L. 108–189, § 1, Dec. 19, 2003, 117 Stat. 2865.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 596 of the former Appendix to this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section applicable to any case not final before , see , set out as a note under .