Tag: judgment collectors

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...

We have been known to ask clients what they would rather be doing if they were not investing so much time in collecting outstanding judgments. It is a valid question when you consider how much time and effort goes into debt collection. It’s especially poignant in Washington because the state...

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....

We get our fair share of tough questions from clients. As a judgment collection agency, one of the toughest questions for us to answer is this: what kind of time commitment am I looking at? Clients ask with hope that we can give them a ballpark figure based on the typical judgment case. The...

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...

Collecting a money judgment is rarely easy regardless of the state you’re talking about. But collection is harder in some states than others. Take Texas. We work on money judgments in the Lone Star state. We can tell you that it can be a real challenge. The biggest disadvantage to creditors...

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...