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Your Judgment If you've won a judgment and the debtor hasn't paid, you have a few paths forward: enforce it yourself, hire an attorney, or work with a judgment enforcement professional or agency on a contingency basis. Here's what to know before choosing. Option 1: Do It Yourself Some creditors handle enforcement on their own, especially for smaller judgments. This means filing the discovery requests, restraining orders, liens, or garnishments yourself, tracking deadlines, an

Winning a lawsuit and collecting on it are two different things. A court judgment is a legal declaration that you're owed money — it doesn't come with a check attached. If the debtor doesn't pay voluntarily, the creditor has to take additional legal steps to actually collect. That process is called judgment enforcement, and it's a distinct area of practice from litigation itself. The exact tools and terminology vary by state, but the underlying process follows a similar path

Winning a judgment is only half the fight. Collecting on it is a separate, specialized skill set — and one that most litigation practices aren't set up to handle in-house. Enforcement Is a Different Discipline Than Litigation Trial and litigation work is about building and arguing a case. Post-judgment enforcement is about locating assets, moving quickly before they disappear, and navigating a dense set of procedural tools under the CPLR — information subpoenas, restraining n

You spent months, maybe years, in litigation. You finally have the judgment in hand. It feels like the end of the fight. It isn't. A judgment is a court's declaration that someone owes you money. It is not a mechanism for getting that money. The court doesn't collect it for you, and in most cases, the debtor doesn't simply write a check because a judge said to. What you're holding is legal leverage — not cash. The gap most people don't see coming Between "judgment entered" an