Legal Question in Personal Injury in Texas

My husband has a judgment against him due to a physical fight he was in in 2009. We live in Texas. The guy who sued my husband won a judgment (medical bills and punitive damages). My husband paid all the medical bills to the actual creditor (hospital, ambulance, etc...) not to the plaintiff's attorney because we were afraid that the attorney representing the plaintiff would not pay the bill in full (in other words pocket some of the money for his legal fees). Anyway, the medical bills are paid in full however, we never paid the punitive damages ($3200 approx.). Now, we received a writ of execution yesterday for the total amount of the judgment ($10,000). My question is, since we already paid all the medical bills, are we going to have to pay the medical bills again? Can the judge make us pay the medical bills twice? I know we owe the punitive damages and probably will pay them, however, we don't want to pay the medical bills twice. Any comments?


Asked on 2/11/11, 11:21 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Mark Dunn Mark D. Dunn

Number one: Most of your property is probably exempt, which means that the execution won't result in anything actually being taken from you.

Number two: If you have paid part of the judgment, you should file with the court a Suggestion of Partial Satisfaction of Judgment. Go talk to a lawyer about this.

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Answered on 2/15/11, 6:10 am


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