Tag: judgment collectors

Summary: Judgment creditors have the legal right to collect in-house. But in-house collections generally don’t produce the best results. In fact, the vast majority of money judgments are never fully paid. Winning a money judgment in a civil lawsuit sets a judgment creditor up for what can be...

Summary: After winning a money judgment, both creditor and debtor enter the discovery phase. Judgment creditors often turn to interrogatories as their primary discovery tool. When successful, interrogatories produce a significant amount of useful information. Attorneys in civil cases rely on a host...

One of the biggest mistakes Idaho judgment creditors make is assuming that courts will enforce their judgments in the same way criminal courts enforce sentences. That is not how civil court works. Court involvement in enforcement efforts is minimal. But there is one important thing Idaho courts can...

We know how frustrating it can be to attempt to recover a money judgment only through limited phone calls and form letters. Frustration mounts as those phone calls and letters fail to produce results. But did you know there is a way to move forward? You can move beyond the simple phone call and...

The judgment collection space is dominated by terms people outside of the industry do not normally recognize. One such term is the ‘judgment collection loop’. Needless to say, getting caught in the loop isn’t good. How do you avoid doing so? By working with a judgment collection...

Regular readers of the Judgment Collectors blog understand the value of real estate as a collection tool. Real estate opens the door to judgment liens and writs of execution in most states. But there is a caveat to the homestead exemption. And among all the states, California’s homestead...

It is not unusual for judgment creditors to ask about normal contingency fees before deciding to proceed with turning a judgment over to a collection agency. Unfortunately, it’s not possible to provide a black-and-white answer. Every case is different. Each case’s fee structure is...

Every now and again we get requests from companies looking for help to recover standard debts. We cannot help them. We are a specialized collection agency focusing exclusively on money judgments. So what’s the difference? Standard and judgment collection agencies differ in a lot of the...

Have you ever tried to do your family’s genealogy? If so, you probably appreciate how frustrating it can be to reach a dead end due to what appears to be a lack of information. We experience similar dead ends when running asset searches on judgment debtors. So in a sense, running an asset...

Most U.S. states have enacted a piece of legislation known as the Revised Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act (RUEFJA). With the legislation in force, states can easily recognize judgments issued in other states with a simple procedure known as domestication. Unfortunately, California is...