Eighty Percent of Small Claims Court Cases and Civil Judgments Are Not Pursued
Small Claims Court » Eighty Percent of Small Claims Court Cases and Civil Judgments Are Not Pursued
This is true for so many Americans:
- Someone who doesn't pay
- You send them to small claims or civil court
- The judge makes a decision in your favor
- You don't get the money owed to you.
Although the civil system is structured to allow you to receive money owed to you, that doesn't mean that it isn't going to hard. The court system offers you basic information on filing any garnishment of wages, bank garnishments, liens, and other ways of recovering the money the courts awarded you, however that information is too basic. Therefore, that leaves us with only a few options:
- Call it a loss (Never recover your money)
- Spend all of your time trying to learn how to get your money back yourself
- Call an attorney and pay a retainer plus hundreds per hour fees
- Hire a Collection Agency
Although debt collection service isn't very difficult to learn once you know how to use one, the process can be very easy and beneficial. You would suggest that once you were awarded judgment, the small claims court would make it less complicated for you to recover the funds that are owed to you.
The courts offers information packets to you explaining debtors rights. Try to find out information from one of the court clerks how you go about finding the debtors bank account information or the process for garnishing the debtors wages, and you will find a familiar answer - 'we do not give legal advice'.
The fastest way to get all of the important contact information and other important facts about the debtor is the process of skip tracing. The process of skip tracing involves finding credit report information on the debtor, and playing private detective to put all of the pieces together. One of the hardest things a collector will run into is that most credit reporters won't let you pull a credit report on somebody if you do not own or operate a legitimate company that complies with FRCA laws and regulations.
If you use a collection agency service, they will recover your money with with no out-of-pocket fees, and absolutely no fees unless the money owed to you is recovered. Unlike attorneys who charge a per hour fee, whether or not they are capable to collect your fees.
We recommend letting a professional National Collection Agency handle your outstanding debts for the most effective and efficient no-upfront cost way to collect on monies owed to you.
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