When you won a judgement in the court against the person you sued, did you have a hard time collecting the?
monies owed to you?
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Yeah, I had a problem like that once when a guy I sued moved to a different house sometime after I served him with the court papers. When all is said and done, if you can't collect your money from the defendant, then the court judgement isn't worth the paper it's written on. You need to know where the person lives, where he works, or the location of any of his assets and then give that information to the sheriff's office for them to execute the judgement. If you're unable to obtain any of that info yourself, then you may have to hire a private investigator because the county certainly isn't going to find it for you. Otherwise, all you can do is put a lien on his name and that will damage his credit record for up to 10 years or so. In the worst case scenerio, he might leave the country and then there's probably no way you'll ever collect. And in the end, even if you do find him he may simply have no money for you to collect. But if he's such a loser that he's that badly off then you can at least take comfort in that.
Not after I put liens on his car, boat, house, and vacation home...
it may be difficult to collect a small claims judgment, but the judgment will allow you to place liens on the persons property, vehicles, and even work wages.
If it was small claims, yes. The court will not help you get it in theses cases. Only remedy left is if you know where the person works, you are allowed to garnish theeir wages. The court will give you papers to do this if you want.
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