Indianapolis Litigation

Your friendly Indianapolis attorney at Alerding Castor Hewitt LLP here with a quick follow up on my first blog regarding collections for our business law, technology law, and SaaS law clients.  A link to that post is listed below for those interested.

One of our Saas law clients recently obtained a favorable resolution in one of their cases to collect on a contract from an out-of-state debtor.  We had obtained a default judgment for the client and were pressing forward with the proceeding supplemental here in Indiana.  I don’t know if the debtor was ignoring the process, moving around the country, or what was going on, but he wasn’t responding.  However, he finally contacted us when he ran into trouble trying to enter into a lease; apparently the judgment popped up on his credit history when the landlord ran a credit check.  To make a long story short, the debtor was more than willing to come forward to settle the claim with our Saas law client.

This success story just bears out the point of my original post:  it’s worth taking some minimal time and expense to proceed with a proceeding supplemental in Indiana on out-of-state folks before undertaking some more involved process.  The result can be surprising.