Aldous & Associates

Aldous & Associates is a law firm that collects debts, not a collection agency. A law practice that regularly collects consumer debts is a debt collector under the federal FDCPA (Heintz v. Jenkins, 1995), and it has a Texas third-party debt collector surety bond on file with the Secretary of State; it can also file a collection lawsuit for a creditor, as the creditor’s lawyer and in the creditor’s name. This site lists collection law firms separately from agencies for that reason.

Aldous & Associates has an active $10,000 surety bond on file with the Texas Secretary of State (SoS File 20120112), last checked October 12, 2026. Texas does not issue a collection license; that bond is what Texas Finance Code Chapter 392 requires of a third-party debt collector before it collects consumer debts.

Yes. Aldous & Associates holds an active Debt Collection Agency license with the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (license 2085870-DCA), last checked September 28, 2026. New York City requires this license of any business whose principal purpose is collecting personal or household debts from NYC residents, wherever the business itself is based.

Yes. Aldous & Associates holds a consumer collection agency registration with the Florida Office of Financial Regulation (CCA9904686), recorded as Approved, last checked October 12, 2026. Chapter 559, Part VI of the Florida Statutes requires this registration of a consumer collection agency, though nine categories of business are lawfully exempt from it.

Yes. Aldous & Associates holds an active debt collector license with the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (license 10161-99), on the department's list of current licensees, last checked October 12, 2026. The Debt Collection Licensing Act, Financial Code Section 100001, requires this license of a debt collector, though banks, licensed lenders and commercial collectors are lawfully exempt from it.

The public CFPB Consumer Complaint Database records 5,237 debt-collection complaints referencing Aldous & Associates, as of October 7, 2026. This counts debt-collection complaints only, all years, not every complaint the Bureau holds about the company; the profile links the same search on the live CFPB database; a complaint is a record, not a verdict, and the CFPB says its database is not a statistical sample of consumers’ experiences.