Creditors use judgments (a court's determination that you owe a debt) to enforce past - due debts, but if you don't own much, a judgment won't help a creditor, since they can only come after non-exempt assets.
Creditors use judgments to step up their efforts in collecting a debt.
Not exact matches
The
judgment allows your
creditors to
use special collection tools to try to collect.
The
creditor may
use the
judgment to garnish your wages or place a lien on your property, including bank accounts.
Credit bureaus compile your credit history from
creditors, collection agencies, public records (
judgments and liens) and other sources, and
use their own formulas to create a credit score.
The tools that
creditors may
use to enforce
judgments vary from state to state, and California allows one of the worst ones, at least from a debtor's point of view: wage garnishment.
The
judgment allows your
creditors to
use special collection tools to try to collect.
The
judgment gives the
creditor the right to force you to pay
using a variety of methods.
If the debtor does not pay the amount of a Small Claims Court
judgment and does not work out a payment plan, a
creditor must wait 30 days from the date of the
judgment before
using other legal means to collect.
If the debtor does not file an appeal, the
creditor can then
use legal means to collect the amount of the
judgment.
Mr. Martin
uses his extensive knowledge and experience of Massachusetts» pre-judgment remedies to obtain
judgments, executions on
judgments, and payment on
judgments for
creditors with claims against persons and entities who fail to pay their debts.
Estate assets, plus any additional funds collected into the estate during the course of the administration (for example,
judgments debts collected after the deceased died), must be
used to pay the estate
creditors before there can be any distribution to the estate beneficiaries.
To the relief of
judgment creditors across the country, the Supreme Court ruled that courts can
use their inherent jurisdiction to make orders permitting the disclosure of personal information, including personal information contained in mortgage discharge statements, and that such disclosures are permitted based on the implied consent of the mortgagor.
Those serving demands without the benefit of a
judgment should also bear in mind that the courts have taken a dim view of
creditors who
use the process merely as a threat to the debtor with no intention of following the matter through to the bankruptcy stage.
Since some state laws protect cash value and death benefits of insurance policies from claims by
creditors, permanent policy holders can
use the benefits from a permanent policy without risk of a
judgment or a lien against the policy.
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