What can you do to collect on a judgment, and when can you do it? And does it matter if you're going after the judgment debtor directly, or after the property of the judgment debtor in the hands of a third party? In a...more
In North Carolina, many lawsuits result in the entry of a judgment that establishes one party's right to collect payment of a certain amount of money from another party. It may be easy to view the entry of judgment as the...more
Mergenthaler v. Triumph Mortgage Corp., C.A. No. 09C-09-203-AML (November 26, 2018) - This case with a tortured history presented an interesting issue regarding when a creditor is required to renew a judgment in the...more
Last week, I wrote about a recent Court of Appeal decision allowing for the possibility that a sale of shares at a sheriff’s sale could amount to conversion. Duke v. Superior Court, 2017 Cal. App. LEXIS 1116. A fundamental...more
In the hectic world of North Carolina civil litigation, the focused practitioner understandably may lose sight of the forest for the individual trees. Analyzing thousands of pages of poorly-copied document production for that...more