Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in California

Re: court costs/collection agency

You need to contact the Colorado Court and see the Register of Actions for this case. They usually have indexes for the various years for both plaintiffs and defendants, so you can find out the case number. If you already know the number, send a letter to the court with the copying fee to get a copy of the judgment in that case, as well as a copy of the register of action for your case that shows all of the paper work filed in the case to the present. Use the internet to get these addresses, etc. If you don't have the case number, one possibility is to go online and see if they have case information over the internet. Try the internet option first. If that doesn't work you'll have to hire an attorney service to get the information noted above. Use one in Colorado that is in the same county where the case was heard; otherwise you may end up having to pay for them to travel.

I'm not a Colorado attorney, so I don't know their statute of limitations for collecting judgments. If their statutes are like California then they allow the judgment to be renewed every ten years,with interest, indefinitely. However, since you may have been a juvenile at that time there may have been some limits on what this creditor could do. Ultimately you will need to turn the information you gathered over to a local Colorado attorney for assistance. Check with the local county Colorado Bar Association to get a referral to an attorney in the county were the case was heard.