Category: judgment collection

Collecting outstanding judgments is not always the easiest task. It can take a lot of time and energy. It can be frustrating when debtors do not cooperate. Trying to collect can be so demoralizing that you just want to throw up your hands, walk away, and forget about it. Wouldn’t it be nice...

Protecting one’s credit was often strong motivation to pay up when a civil judgment was entered against a debtor. Judgment debtors with legitimate resources would have rather paid what they owed than face the consequences of having a judgment show up on a credit report. But that is no longer...

It is not unusual in our business to take on judgments entered as a result of default or settlement. In fact, it’s the norm. Default judgments and settlements dominate the debt collection lawsuit landscape. Furthermore, it is not accidental. There are particularly good reasons explaining this...

As a judgment collection agency operating in Kentucky, we have worked with all sorts of good people trying to collect bad debts in the Bluegrass State. We’ve learned a thing or two about how the system works in Kentucky, including the fact that the state has a longer-than-average statute of...

It is no secret that the vast majority of judgments entered by U.S. courts forever remain uncollected. It’s not that collection is impossible. Rather, it is a matter of judgment creditors not knowing the best ways to go about collecting. Many do not understand the value of debtor assets and...

Judgment Collectors is a specialist collection agency focusing exclusively on civil judgments. We help companies and other organizations collect outstanding judgments from debtors who tend to be lacking in their cooperation. Our help often provides the leverage clients need to get paid. We are not...

We published a blog post over a year ago that asked the following question: how much time does your company spend chasing bad debts? We used the post to make the case for hiring professional debt collectors to help you get paid. Now we want to go one step further by specifically addressing that...

More than one organization has given up on judgment collection and just taken its losses. When companies do this, it is generally because they just want to be done with it. They want to put the judgments behind them and forget about the whole experience. We think there is a better way. You can...

Civil court is often the only way to get satisfaction when a customer doesn’t pay. It might be the only way to deal with a company or organization that harms you. Perhaps you are in that position now. You are getting ready to file a lawsuit. Let’s say you end up winning. Then what?...

Most of us have been in the position of doing something just out of principle. We didn’t gain anything in particular, nor would we have been harmed had we not done whatever it was. We simply chose to pursue a particular action because principle dictated it. Believe it or not, judgment collection...