Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Texas
I have a judgement, can I sue for more and make my ex-tenants pay?
I was awarded an eviction and a judgement for $2500.00 for unpaid rent against my ex tenants. They have yet to pay anything and owe me another $2750.00 in rent and reletting fees according to the lease agreement.
The JP court in which I got the judgement has no way to force them to pay. Can I sue them in county court and add the previous judgement of $2500.00 to what else they owe me in an effort to make them pay? The county court has the ability to issue a writ of garnishment, so I'd like to do that to force them to pay everything they owe me. I just don't know if the county court would issue a judgement including a judgement from another court. Otherwise it's not really financially feasable to go after them again.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: I have a judgement, can I sue for more and make my ex-tenants pay?
No, you can only get one judgment for the same damages. You cannot combine them.
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