Category: judgment collection

A winning plaintiff in a civil court case has a big job ahead of him if the judgment in his favor includes a monetary award. Rather than just being a plaintiff, he is now a judgment creditor with an outstanding debt he is entitled to collect. Now is when the real work begins. Collecting...

It has been our experience that a lot of judgment creditors really don’t want to continue pursuing legal remedies to get paid what they rightly owed. They have had enough of civil court and all that comes with it. They would rather negotiate with their debtors to reach some sort of...

Judgment creditors win cases against debtors every day. Sometimes we wonder how many of those creditors realize the financial implications of winning at the moment the judge’s gavel falls. Why? Because the hidden costs of DIY collection are very real. We recommend bringing in a collection...

Regular readers of our blog are aware that we mention skip tracing from time to time. If you are new to our brand, you might not know what skip tracing is or how useful it is to judgment collection. No worries. Your questions will be answered by the time you finish reading this post....

Whenever Judgment Collectors takes a new case, we start by looking at all the available information pertaining to the debtor’s income and assets. Our position on this does not differ from a judgment creditor who attempts collection on their own. Information is key to figuring out how to...

We previously published a blog post explaining what the abstract of judgment is and why it matters to judgment creditors. The post led to a secondary question among some of our clients: what does ‘indexing’ an abstract of judgment mean? Indexing is a technical term relating to how an...

Civil litigation has its own language. There are so many terms the general public doesn’t know. For example, take the ‘abstract of judgment’. Do you know what it is and why it matters? Our role as a judgment collection agency demands that we understand the abstract of judgment....

You have won a money judgment against a debtor who owes you a substantial amount of money. Unfortunately, you have also gotten a letter from his attorney explaining that he has no nonexempt assets. You don’t even know what that means. Well, it’s not good news, that’s for sure. The...

Wouldn’t it be fantastic if every judgment debtor immediately paid their bill in full? Absolutely. Does it ever happen? Only on rare occasions. Almost every monetary award must go through a long and belabored collection process. The process is time consuming and often frustrating to judgment...

If you are currently struggling to collect a money judgment, we would like to pose a question: how is your quality of life? The quality-of-life concept is usually associated with healthcare. But it has applications in the judgment collection space. Allow us to explain. What if we told you that...