Collecting Judgments

Now that you have a judgment, what comes next?  How should you proceed?

This is where the squeaky wheel principal becomes most evident.  Once a judgment is obtained you then have the Court's permission to really get the debtor's attention.  That's when the hard cases usually resolve.

We collect judgments in the same manner that we obtain judgments.  We have a plan and we work that plan. Listed below are the steps we will take in collecting your judgments.  However, we need the client's input regarding the debtor to make sure the approach we normally follow makes sense in the case at hand. 

In other words, this approach is not fool-proof nor etched in stone, but it is the template we generally follow. The process is generally outlined in the pages below:

The Abstract
Writ of Garnishment
Post-Judgment Investigation
Post-Judgment Deposition
Motion for Turnover
Writ of Execution
Property Exempt from Execution
Spousal Property

Email:  Darrell W. Cook

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