Patenaude & Felix in Texas

Patenaude & Felix is a collection law firm headquartered in San Diego, CA. It has held a Texas surety bond continuously for 23 years, and currently has an active $10,000 bond on file with the Texas Secretary of State (SoS File 20150140), meeting the Texas Finance Code Chapter 392 requirement for third-party debt collectors. Each fact below links to where it comes from wherever a source is on record, with the date it was last checked where a check has run.

This is a law firm, not a collection agency. A law practice that regularly collects consumer debts is a debt collector under the federal FDCPA, and it can also file a collection lawsuit for a creditor, as the creditor's lawyer and in the creditor's name. That difference is why law firms are listed separately, on the collection law firms page, and never in the agency rankings.

23 years

of continuous verified Texas bond history on the Texas Secretary of State register. Patenaude & Felix currently holds an active $10,000 surety bond.

Source: texas-sos.appianportalsgov.com · Last checked: October 5, 2026

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Public-record facts about Patenaude & Felix

Fact	Value	Source
Headquarters	San Diego, CA	Named on: pandf.us · Last checked: October 10, 2026
Company type	Collection law firm	Classified by us from: pandf.us · Last checked: October 10, 2026
Website	pandf.us
Careers page	pandf.isolvedhire.com/jobs	Linked from: pandf.us · Last checked: October 2, 2026
Texas surety bond history	23 years continuously bonded Active SoS File 20150140 · filed June 26, 2015 · Hartford Casualty Insurance Company · bond 20BSBHF7916 Canceled Close File SoS File 20070163 · filed July 23, 2007 · canceled October 8, 2015 · Developers Surety and Indemnity Company · bond 593488C Canceled Close File SoS File 20030132 · filed July 22, 2003 · canceled October 5, 2007 · Farmington Casualty Company · bond 00103897317	Register: texas-sos.appianportalsgov.com · Last checked: October 5, 2026
CFPB debt-collection complaints on record	374 Recorded by the CFPB under “Patenaude & Felix A Professional Corporation”	CFPB database: consumerfinance.gov · Last checked: October 7, 2026

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Common questions about Patenaude & Felix

Is Patenaude & Felix a collection agency or a law firm?

Patenaude & Felix 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.

Is Patenaude & Felix licensed to collect debt in Texas?

Patenaude & Felix has an active $10,000 surety bond on file with the Texas Secretary of State (SoS File 20150140), last checked October 5, 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.

Does Patenaude & Felix have complaints on record?

The public CFPB Consumer Complaint Database records 374 debt-collection complaints referencing Patenaude & Felix, which the Bureau records under the company name "Patenaude & Felix A Professional Corporation", 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.

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