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Aggressively pursuing post-judgment collections in Massachusetts

Collections Law

Large businesses and corporations that encounter nonpayment of business debt may assume that getting a court judgment against the non-paying company is all that is necessary. There are companies who will still withhold payment even after a court judgment. When they do, you need an attorney who knows how to collect on a judgment.

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Debt Recovery – Utilizing Debtor Exams to Collect on a Judgment

Stevens Lloyd

You have initiated a lawsuit and won a Default Judgment against the debtor. Judgments are worthless unless you can locate and garnish the debtor’s assets, however. Extracting money from judgments necessitates obtaining significant information about the debtor as it relates to their assets. So now what ?

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Post-Judgment Collection Practices for When Your Debtor Won’t Pay Up

Collections Law

You’ve won your case in court, and your debtor needs to make the necessary payments to resolve the outstanding debt. Very often your initial attorney who obviously excels at winning the case for you does not know the ins and outs of debt recovery or post-judgment collection. But it rarely is that easy.

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Does your debtor own a cash business?

Collections Law

We seek to freeze a debtor’s assets prior to obtaining a judgment so that there is an identifiable resource from which to get you paid. Once you get that judgment, we seek leave of the court to direct the person or entity which is holding the debtor’s seized assets to pay you. Cohen & Associates LLC.

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Massachusetts law allows this effective move when collecting on a judgment

Collections Law

In our experience in business-to-business collections, debtors frequently withhold payment even when creditors have obtained legal judgments against them. In Massachusetts, getting a legal judgment may be only the first step in a collections case. What if the court rules our debtor cannot pay? What can be done?

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My debtor has no assets in my state, but he does in Massachusetts. Can you help?

Collections Law

In the United States, each state’s courts are bound to respect the judgments of other states’ courts, with limited exceptions. If you have obtained a judgment in your state only to learn the debtor no longer has any assets there, you can look to assets they have in other states, such as Massachusetts. Can you help?

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Utilizing ex parte attachments for Massachusetts commercial debt collection

Collections Law

When a debtor is delinquent, one of the biggest concerns for creditors is that the debtor doesn’t have enough money to pay what they owe. Securing an ex parte attachment to obtain pre-judgment security as part of a collections lawsuit can help to alleviate these concerns. After all a judgment is just a judgment.