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Most people who win a judgment do not completely comprehend them. Judgments are orders from some court which states one party officially owes some money to some other party. Judgments begin as claims, that some judge or court, officially makes a ruling, to create judgments. Usually, the court cannot help people collect a judgment; and there's not any due dates which make debtors pay off your judgment. My articles are my opinions and are not, legal advice. I am a judgment broker, and not a lawyer. If you need legal advice or a strategy to use, please retain an attorney. The person or entity suing is the plaintiff, at the court hearing; they usually gets turned into judgment creditors. An entity or person who gets sued is the defendant, and most often become the judgment debtor. In post-judgment matters, sometimes court judges gloss over the fact the defendant did something wrong, and then some of them attempt to give judgment debtors breaks whenever possible. Judgments are issued for many reasons, a typical start is someone owes another. A judgment can also begin from loans not getting repaid, damages done to people or property, taxes not being paid, services and goods not being paid, fraud, theft, etc. Every judgment depends on serving a summons for the court lawsuit upon the defendant. Certain defendants don't show up in court after getting served, and this makes default judgments. Default judgments occasionally create a type of legal loophole, which certain debtors may use to their advantage. Once in a while, the debtor really was not served legal notice for the lawsuit. Very rarely, a "bad apple" registered process server person has done "sewer serve" and thrown courthouse lawsuit papers into the garbage. For each judgment debtor that has really experienced this; perhaps over one hundred additional judgment debtors, attempt to assert they weren't served correctly, however they actually were. There are many types of court judgments, with judgments from criminal courts and also civil court orders ordering that defendants not do things. Some judgments are strange, as an example people being court ordered not to place evil curses on the plaintiffs. Only judgments which show an amount of money owed, have any chance for possible collection; and they are most often called a civil money judgment. Judgments aren't cash, judgments are just a chance for being paid any cash in the future. Different than simple claims, judgments are supported by a court, that enable Sheriffs or Marshall's to try to levy your judgment debtor's available assets. Any common claim, like a UCC lien, does not possess the "power" of judgments. A judgment's power is only a possibility, as there is no guarantee. A judgment almost always earn interest, however all interest earned is theoretical unless it's recovered. The majority of judgments are not collected. You can't simply shake your judgment debtor upside down, to see what drops from the debtor's pockets. The only way to recover most judgments is paying the Sheriff and the court so they will attempt to levy any available assets belonging to the debtor, like the debtor's wages or bank accounts. When your judgment debtor becomes sick, poor, old, dead, currently in prison, is bankrupt, expertly hiding all their assets, or cannot currently be located, the judgment is most likely worth nothing. The majority of people get very surprised to find out their "valuable" judgments are not worth very much money up-front. Many waste far too many hours attempting to find someone who will purchase a judgment (at their predefined terms), and they never get even a dollar; or be paid more than their judgment debtor's situation will support. Generally, the more income and assets the judgment debtor owns, the more the judgment might be worth. Everything depends only on your debtor, it does not matter who you talk with or email your judgment to. Probably the most common reason a judgment does not sell for very much cash up-front is, if the debtor files for bankruptcy, the majority of judgments are worth nothing. The majority of folks having a judgment do not believe they cannot be sold for cash, until a really complete financial check is performed on their judgment debtor. Creditors that demand a certain amount of money up-front price for a judgment are wasting their time; because judgment purchasers do not care at all what creditors want to be paid. A contingency future-payment judgment recovery may end up being the best option for some judgment owners, especially when you don't need to assign the judgment. Judgment collection is a recovery effort, which means to collect or enforce a judgment. Buyers are available and can help you with your judgment collection efforts. Mark Shapiro of http://www.JudgmentBuy.com - Your easiest and fastest free method of finding the best professional to buy or recover any judgment.
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