The defense process is very lengthy and goes thru multiple stages starting with a letter to request you stop.

@Jon Holdman Thank you so much for taking the time to write back with such a lengthy post.

This time the wife sends my spouse a text on the last day of the grace period saying she couldn't pay rent because she had to bond her husband out of jail due to child support and could she give us 200 today and the rest on the 15th.

If you were in my shoes would you just leave the money I have accumulated in retirements fund in stocks, bonds and mutual funds and forget about it?

(b) A violation of this section shall be a Class C misdemeanor and the sureties on his or her official bond shall be liable for a penalty not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500) and to be fixed by the circuit judge with jurisdiction in the county.

But the requirement turns out as you are under the supervision of a licensed broker in the beginning, the broker is bonded an insured.

Intangible rights to the asset may be another story...https://www.sec.gov/about/laws/sa33.pdf(1) The term ‘‘security’’ means any note, stock, treasury stock, security future, security-based swap, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement, collateral-trust certificate, preorganization certificate or subscription, transferable share, investment contract, voting-trust certificate, certificate of deposit for a security, fractional undivided interest in oil, gas, or other mineral rights, any put, call, straddle, option, or privilege on any security, certificate of deposit, or group or index of securities (including any interest therein or based on the value thereof), or any put, call, straddle, option, or privilege entered into on a national securities exchange relating to foreign currency, or, in general, any interest or instrument commonly known as a ‘‘security’’, or any certificate of interest or participation in, temporary or interim certificate for, receipt for, guarantee of, or warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase, any of the foregoing.

Shows up, very professional, gives me copies of license and bond, fair estimate, drywall is on site already since I have a wholesale account at the local Drywall and Insulation supplier.

dang, now they're all coming to me...Duke and Duke from Trading PlacesInitech from Office SpaceQuick Stop from ClerksInGen from Jurassic ParkSpectre and Universal Exports from James Bond movies how about Prestige Worldwide from the funniest movie ever...Step Brothers.  

In reality, that money guy, if they have a brain, is going to ask why they need you at all, but at the least, why pay you 50% when they can buy it and get a professional, licensed manager who is insured and bonded for 10%?????