Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in California

Default Judgement

I am wondering what the statute of limitations is on collecting on a defaulted small claims judgement? This case is from 1970, and was never paid. What would be our legal recourse today? And is there a way to see if the defendant may have an outstanding warrent, even 34 years later, due to this default? The case was filed in CA, and I have to original court judgement papers. The courts have let me know that after 10 years thye destroy everything, so they do not have file copy of the judgement. And regarding any warrents, would there be an open warrent here is CA, where the default occured or would it be in Colorado where the defendant resided then and now?


Asked on 6/23/04, 4:57 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Joel Selik www.SelikLaw.com

Re: Default Judgement

Judgements are valid for ten years and may be renewed indefinately.

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Answered on 6/23/04, 5:04 pm


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