Post Judgment Collection
If your case involves a
collection which has already been through the court system and a
Judgment has already been obtained which has not yet been collected
against a California resident debtor, and you select a percentage or
contingent fee, please review our Contingent Fee Retainer
Agreement-Post Judgment. Alternatively you may wish to consider our Hourly Fee Retainer Agreement. Hourly fees are rarely appropriate on
Judgments that have not been successfully collected in the past as
well as smaller cases as discussed in the topic of Contingent Fee or
Hourly Fee. In either fee type, you will also need to provide a Substitution of Attorney Form which we will need for the court clerk
to issue enforcement documents in our favor.
Sister State
Judgment
If your case involves a collection which
has already been through the court system in another state and a
Judgment has already been obtained which has not yet been collected
against a California resident debtor (This is called a Sister State
Judgment case), and you select a percentage or contingent fee, please
review our Contingent Fee Retainer Agreement-Sister State
Judgment.
Alternatively you may wish to consider our Hourly Fee Retainer
Agreement. However just as with in-state cases, Hourly fees are rarely
appropriate on Judgments that have not been successfully collected in
the past as well as smaller cases as discussed in the topic of Contingent Fee or Hourly Fee.
If you select traditional hourly fees as
a method to compensate us for our services, you should select our Hourly
Fee Retainer Agreement. In that case you should confirm the initial
retainer requirements with Martin B. Greenbaum prior to sending any
money or case materials.
3.
The Cost and Expense Deposit
After accumulating all of the evidence and documents, and
selecting the fee type you feel most comfortable with, you should review
the small cost deposit we request to begin a lawsuit on contingent fee
matters. In general, the cost deposit takes creditors through all the
steps generally necessary to obtain a judgment and most cases are
resolved by that time. The cost deposit covers the expenses of credit
reports, database searching and asset verification, court filing fees,
process servers fees and related expenses. Review the topic of About
Costs for a more in depth discussion.
The initial deposit
for court costs are:
- New cases under $10,000 $250
- New cases over $10,000 $375
- California Post Judgment cases $150
