Legal Question in Civil Litigation in North Carolina
I have a default judgement against a debt owed by me from a district court in Vermont four years ago and moved shortly after that to North Carolina. I have been paying a monthly amount agreed to with the plaintiff since then. If I do not continue to pay this amount, can that court garnish my wages or attach my bank account here in NC?
1 Answer from Attorneys
It would be up to the person you are making payments to decide whether to pursue collections. Depending on the amount involved, it may or may not be cost effective to pursue collections across state lines but theoretically, sure garnishment and seizing assets like bank accounts and property are possibilities. At the very least it would likely affect your credit. Also, if you are what is known as 'judgment proof' meaning you have no assets to seize or wages to garnish or if you do, they are from a job that you can quit and move easily move on to a new job, then you really don't have any thing to worry about and likely never should have made in payments in the first place. For people in that blessed position judgments against them have about the same worth as a wad of used toilet paper.