Legal Question in Civil Litigation in California

Re: Need help in Collecting a Judgement

Its always easier to get a judgment than to collect. Especially from a corporation on the internet. Unless you know of an asset [e.g., someone else owes them money, a leasehold deposit, an actual place of business, a bank account, etc.] you will have to do discovery. The only discovery allowed is an Order of Examination, but sounds like you will have trouble finding someone to show up who knows anything. You can file an Abtract of Judgment, but that is passive - gets a hit only if they own real estate and want to sell it. The easiest road is some times the least obvious - do you have a check you gave them, and does it show a deposit stamp on the bank, thus revealing their bank account? That is step one, then call the bank and tell them you have a check for $2100 from them, and will it clear. If they say yes, run - don't walk - to the courthouse to get a Writ of Execution issued and get the sheriff or someone to levy it ASAP. If they have an office, you can put a keeper in there, and pick up all their mail and then their chairs and desks, etc, and sell them. Talk to the sheriff about this one.

And no, once it is a judgment, you do not get to add attorney fees - just levy costs and interest. Sorry. Good luck.

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Wayne V.R. Smith

Attorney at Law

P.O. Box 3219

Martinez CA 94553