Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in Wisconsin

Re: judgement on my credit report

Before your landlord would have been able to obtain a judgment against you, he would have had to file a lawsuit and then serve you with the papers. The Summons and Complaint lawsuit papers would have had to be served upon you personally,if he could find you to serve you, or poetentially by publishing the summons and complaint in a designated newspaper, in an attempt to give you notice, and then it should have been sent to your last known address, if that was known. He would have then had to provide that information to the court and file documents reflecting his service of the papers on you. If he was able to do that to the court's satisfaction, then a default judgment would have been entered against you. You can attempt to review the court file and check on the filing and service issues, and then if it was done defectively, you can attempt to file a motion to re-open the judgment. Unfortunately, if you violated the lease provisions, the landlord may be within his rights to pursue the judgment against you, which you would then have to pay and get a satisfaction of judgment which you would then need to file with the court to reflect that the judgment has been paid and satisfied.