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Enforcing judgments is usually difficult, and the odds of collection are usually small. Can you shame your judgment debtor into paying you by putting a copy of your judgment onto some website? May one use a debtor's name for the name of a new web site to do that? Can you also put more info such as your side of your story, or whatever you know about them, and maybe include their picture and address? My articles are my opinions and are not, legal advice. I am a judgment expert, and not an attorney. When you ever need a strategy to use or legal advice, you should contact an attorney. May you put your copy of a judgment on some website? I think that if you put a copy of only the judgment as it was filed at a courthouse, that's most likely to be OK, because judgments are a public record. However, anything past that, you must be very careful due to laws that protect a person's privacy, etc. When you put onto your website, "Here is a copy of my judgment I won against Dan Debtor", and place a JPG or PDF copy of your final judgment, that would be OK; if there is nothing private such as your debtor's address or their social security number on the judgment. When those are present, be sure to cover them so they cannot be read. Whether your judgment debtor or their attorney can sue you is not actually the question, because anyone can sue anyone else for any reason. The question is, will your debtor win at court? The answer most likely depends on whether you restrict whatever yourself to what the paragraph above describes or not. What happens when you: A) Copy your judgment debtor's name for some web site name, showing the copy of the judgment, as an example: www.DanDebtor.com. B) You write nasty comments and/or your judgment debtor's personal info on public web sites, or publicly call your judgment debtor a deadbeat. One example would be going to their Facebook page and writing a message saying the debtor not paying their debts. C) You place your debtor's picture, address, telephone number, date of birth, social security number, the debtor's kid's or relative's names, or some other personal info about the debtor on any web site. I'm not a lawyer, however I believe the items listed above are ranked (A, B, C) by the odds these type of things might someday become the basis of a lawsuit if you got sued. When you do anything like A, you might get some letter from a lawyer one day. If you do A, B, and C, all three; you might then someday get sued. When you only make public a judgment at a website, I think you're OK, because any member of the public may walk into a court house and buy a copy of a judgment or find it online. (Presuming your file has not become lost or destroyed.) Even if you only place the copy of your judgment, and then write the truth (your version of the story) in your own words, those words are not supposed to get included in a public record tied to the debtor. While those words might not be slander or libel, they may be interpreted legally as causing "damage" to the debtor's reputation. I do not advise putting your judgment on some website because it most likely won't get you repaid, and could create headaches for you. When you feel that you have to share your judgment on a website, it is best to publicize just a copy of the judgment. Mark D. Shapiro of: http://www.JudgmentBuy.com - Your easiest and fastest way to find the best professional to buy or recover a judgment.
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