OC Judgment Collection

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Judgment Enforcement

Colleagues and Private investigators and Judgment collectors

My client has a judgment against an individual who is an artist.  I have located the studio of the artist and its full of art work.  This is a well known artist and the art work is selling for lots of dough1

Since I have a judgment for over 26K, I’m thinking that I can “seize” the painting as partial payment for the debt. 

I don’t mean that I plan to place a “keeper” in the studio, since selling art is not a steady flow of cash.

The artist has painting in different art studio’s in different locations.

I would like to seize these also.

Have not done this in a very long time so I’m not up to date on whether I can or not or should even attempt this.

Any thoughts on this.

You can get file a Motion to get a court order to seize paintings at the

artist’s studio or residence, but you have to be very specific in

describing the painting(s) you want taken, or most Sheriffs won’t do it.

Around here, it is called a Seizure Order. Call your local Sheriff and

see if they do “Seizures of Personal Property”. They’ll probably charge

you a couple hundred bucks, and they’ll want very specific instructions

about the paintings, and where they are located on site.

Some courts also expect you to get a Writ in the amount of the judgment

before they’ll issue the Seizure Order. You’ll need the Writ issued for

the county where the artist/debtor has their studio and paintings.

artist has painting in different art studio’s in different locations

If you mean artist has paintings for sale in different _galleries_ in

different locations, you can file a Motion for the court to issue an

Assignment Order to the gallery owner, and if one of the debtor’s

paintings sell, the owner is supposed to turn over X% of the proceeds to

you instead of the debtor. You can usually get the court to order 25% of

each sale goes to your judgment creditor. The Motion also has to name

specific galleries and owner’s names to be valid.

Most attorneys don’t deal with this type of Motion, so you and the

judgment creditor may be on your own. Give me a call if you want

potential referrals.

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