Is this judgment worth chasing?
Five questions. The answer turns on the debtor and what they own, not on the size of the judgment — a six-thousand-dollar judgment against someone with a house is worth more than two hundred thousand against a company that dissolved.
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Worth pursuing
This is the posture enforcement is built for. The next step is an abstract in every county where they own anything, a writ, and — if ordinary process can’t reach it — a turnover application with a receiver.
Turnover order and post-judgment receiver →Abstract, writ, and the constable →
Worth a look, but something has to be checked first
There is probably something here, and one input is missing or one clock is a problem. Serving post-judgment discovery is usually the cheapest way to find out — and a debtor who ignores it has handed you the finding a turnover application needs.
Abstract, writ, and the constable →Turnover order and post-judgment receiver →
Probably not collectible as it stands
On what you have described, the money is not likely to be there — or the clock has run far enough that reviving the judgment comes before anything else. Being told that now is worth more than finding out after you have spent on it. A judgment past ten years is dormant rather than dead and can be revived, which is worth an email if that is the only problem.
Two of these answers were “not sure”, and that is the only reason this did not come out higher. Nothing you have described is a problem with the judgment — it is a gap in what is known about the debtor, which is the ordinary starting position and the thing post-judgment discovery is for. Send it and the answers are usually findable in a week.
The supersedeas bond is the important fact here. Money has already been posted with the court to secure this judgment, so collection is close to guaranteed and the real question is how much — which is a question worth asking. Send it even if everything else on this page is uncertain.
The blocker is the same one that ends most of these: nothing identified to take. That is the one problem enforcement cannot work around — a writ needs something to levy on. It is also the problem post-judgment discovery exists to solve, so if you have not served any, the answer here is not final, it is unanswered.