• A debtor is a natural or legal person who is legally or contractually obligated to provide a benefit or payment to another person.
  • An affirmative covenant is something that the debtor must do, such as the need to achieve certain performance benchmarks.
  • In family law, there are certain cases when a court order is issued, for example, in the dissolution of a marriage, which requires one of the parents, the debtor, to pay alimony to the other parent.