Posted by Jonathon Warner | Judgement and Fee Collection
A signed judgment feels like the finish line. The gavel comes down, the court rules in your favor, and the money owed to you becomes official. Then nothing happens. The check never arrives, the debtor goes quiet, and you discover that winning and collecting are two entirely different fights. Warner & Scheuerman has spent decades …
Posted by Jonathon Warner | Judgement and Fee Collection
A judgment creditor who locates a debtor’s money has cleared a major hurdle, but finding the asset and seizing it are not the same thing. When property belongs to the debtor yet sits in the hands of a third party, or when the debtor refuses to hand it over, the creditor needs a court order …
Continue reading "Turnover Proceedings in New York: A Creditor’s Tool for Reaching Hidden Assets"
Posted by Jonathon Warner | Judgement and Fee Collection
Few moments are more frustrating for a creditor than hearing a debtor claim to be broke right after a court has ordered them to pay. The empty pockets are often a performance. A debtor who genuinely owes money rarely advertises where it is kept, and many spend more energy hiding assets than they would have …
Continue reading "The Debtor Says They Have No Money: How New York Creditors Uncover Hidden Assets"
Posted by Jonathon Warner | Judgement and Fee Collection
A judgment won in another state does not automatically reach a debtor’s assets in New York. Creditors learn this the moment they try to freeze a New York bank account or garnish wages here using a judgment entered elsewhere. The asset sits within reach, the judgment is valid, and yet New York courts will not …
Continue reading "Enforcing an Out-of-State Judgment in New York: What Creditors Need to Know"
Posted by Jonathon Warner | Judgement and Fee Collection
You wrote the check, the borrower signed the note, and for a while everything looked fine. Then a payment slipped. Then another. Suddenly the document that felt like a guarantee turns into a question: what now? At Warner & Scheuerman, we hear this story constantly from small business owners, real estate investors, and private lenders …
Posted by Jonathon Warner | Judgement and Fee Collection
Winning the judgment was the hard part. Or so it felt. Then the debtor stops returning your emails, ignores the demand letters, and goes back to drawing a paycheck like nothing happened. The paper sitting in your file does not collect itself, and the most direct way to start turning that paper into money is …
Posted by Jonathon Warner | Judgement and Fee Collection
The case is over. The judgment is entered. Then comes the news: the debtor has moved. Maybe across the country, maybe across a state line a few miles away. The question every New York creditor asks at that moment is the same. Can the judgment go with them? At Warner & Scheuerman, we hear that …
Posted by Jonathon Warner | Judgement and Fee Collection
Creditors who hold a New York money judgment often assume that twenty years is more than enough time to collect. That assumption is the first mistake. Judgment enforcement in this state runs on two separate clocks, and missing either one can quietly strip away the priority position a creditor spent years building. At Warner & …
Posted by Jonathon Warner | Judgement and Fee Collection
A judgment in your favor does not guarantee payment. For creditors in New York, the harder work often begins after the court rules, particularly when a debtor decides to move or conceal assets rather than satisfy what they owe. Fraudulent transfers are one of the most common and damaging tactics debtors use to frustrate collection, …
Posted by Jonathon Warner | Judgement and Fee Collection
Some debtors do not simply fail to pay a judgment out of financial hardship. They refuse to pay because they have calculated that ignoring a court order carries no real consequence. For creditors in New York dealing with that kind of deliberate noncompliance, contempt of court is one of the most direct and forceful tools …
