Category: Arizona

Monetary judgments are civil court decisions involving some sort of monetary award or penalty. Ideally, the losing party in a civil lawsuit would immediately pay what is owed and be done with it. But that is not how things usually work out. When debtors fail to voluntarily pay up, creditors are...

Regular readers of our blog know that states handle judgment collection in different ways. State laws dictate how judgments are rendered, recorded, and enforced. In Arizona, there are a few peculiarities worth mentioning. For the remainder of this post, assume we are talking about monetary...

Monetary judgments are civil court decisions involving some sort of monetary award or penalty. Ideally, the losing party in a civil lawsuit would immediately pay what is owed and be done with it. But that is not how things usually work out. When debtors fail to voluntarily pay up, creditors are...

Regular readers of our blog know that states handle judgment collection in different ways. State laws dictate how judgments are rendered, recorded, and enforced. In Arizona, there are a few peculiarities worth mentioning. For the remainder of this post, assume we are talking about monetary...

Collecting judgments in Arizona is similar in many ways to collecting them in other states. But by the same token, there are some differences based on Arizona law. For instance, judgment liens in Arizona are fairly narrow in scope. Only certain types of assets are subject to judgment liens and, on...