Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Virginia

Transfer of venue - time limit

The enforceable time limits in litigation involve limits for the parties to take certainactions, not the courts. The plaintiff has tofile on time and serve on time and the defendant has to answer on time, but the courtcan take as long as it takes to do somethinglike send a file to another court. The plaintiff should be the one to care - it can'tcollect its judgment until it has a judgment - so it should follow up with the courts and tryto find the file and get it on the docket in the new jurisdiction. If you really want to have the case heard, of course, you have the right to bug the various clerks' offices to try to find the file. They probably either just lost it or returned it to files after entry of the transfer order (that is, of course, if you are sure that such an order wasentered).

With regard to the credit report, they can report it as delinquent and charged off if that is the case. They don't need a judgmentto do that.