Rule 621a lets a judgment creditor take discovery for the purpose of obtaining information to aid in the enforcement of the judgment — the same tools as in the case itself, pointed at assets rather than liability. Depositions, requests for production, subpoenas to banks.
It is the step almost nobody takes, which is why most judgments are never collected. It is also the step that decides whether a turnover order or a receivership is worth asking for.
Where does the judgment stand?
Post-judgment discovery is available at different points depending on this, and asking too early draws an objection that costs you time you did not need to lose.
What date was the judgment signed?
We hold the published Texas case law — the state courts, the Fifth Circuit, the Texas federal districts and the Texas bankruptcy courts — in our own index and query it directly. No vendor sits between the question and the answer. That is the reason a discrete motion can carry a price on a web page instead of an hourly rate and a hope.
The index does not stop on one day, and there is no single figure for it. Texas state courts through 4 September 2026 · the Fifth Circuit through 29 June 2026 · the Texas federal district and bankruptcy courts through 26 June 2026. Nothing is adding to the Fifth Circuit and the Texas federal district and bankruptcy courts, so a citation to a Fifth Circuit decision handed down after 29 June 2026 is not held here and cannot be checked against the opinion at all. Whether they should be walked the way the state courts are is a decision this practice has not taken; until it does, this page says where the federal half ends rather than leaving you to assume it does not.
Pulled from our index for this mechanism and read by a lawyer before it went on this page. A green check means the decision is on point for this posture. It is not a statement that the case has been shepardized, and it is not a representation about its current precedential standing.
Counts are the number of later decisions in our index that cite the case. A high count means a case has been used, not that it is good law. Nothing on this page is a citator signal and we will not show one until it is produced by reading opinions rather than counting them.
A Texas judgment becomes dormant if no writ of execution issues within ten years, and a dormant judgment cannot be enforced until it is revived by scire facias — which itself has a deadline. Age is the first thing to check and it is regularly the last thing anybody does.
Dormancy is mechanical. If no writ issued, the judgment went dormant whatever anyone intended.
Scire facias can revive a dormant judgment within two years of dormancy. After that it is generally gone.
Post-judgment interest compounds annually. An old judgment is often worth substantially more than its face, which changes the economics.
Discovery in aid of enforcement costs less than a receivership and answers the only question that matters.
Or send nothing but the document and let us find the rest. Dropping the file at the top of this page is the whole first step.
We will read it and tell you what we would do if we represented you on this single task — what we would file, on what ground, and what it would cost to have us do it.