Have you recently won a case for tortious interference with an inheritance or expectancy interest in West Palm Beach? Believe it or not the jury verdict may not be the hardest part. Now you have to collect on the judgment. Do you know how to keep a West Palm Beach Defendant from becoming “judgment proof”? You may be able to set aside fraudulent transfers that are made to thwart your ability to collect what you are owed.
Judgment Proof Defendants
- What does it mean to be “judgment proof” in West Palm Beach?
- A judgment proof creditor does not care how much money the West Palm Beach jury awarded you because they are not going to pay it.
- These parties have no assets or worse they are hiding assets.
- Experienced Palm Beach probate litigators know that it may be possible to set aside “fraudulent transfers” that are designed to avoid creditors, including judgment creditors.
- A defendant will fight tooth and nail to keep those transfers from being undone.
- That being said the West Palm Beach courts do not take kindly to those trying to avoid judgments.
- Sometimes parties will transfer via wire large sums of money to drain their own account.
- How are you going to undo those transfers?
- First you will have to find them.
- Check out this recent case out of the Third District Court of Appeal outlining how a probate attorney can get you paid on that judgment.
Sweetapple, Broeker & Varkas P.L. v. Simmons
- This was an interesting appeal from the Third District Court of Appeal in and for Miami-Dade County.
- A firm was asking to quash a discovery order that would allow the party who had won a substantial verdict to see various wire transfers from the defendant to this law firm.
- The law firm claimed these wire transfers were privileged.
- If you have a valid judgment in West Palm Beach you need to expect that you will get the run around from the debtor and their attorneys.
- Watch out and do not go it alone.
- Experienced Palm Beach probate attorneys know that these arguments are not going to work on the Court.
- They did not here and they will not in the future.
- If you need help collecting a judgment from a tortious interference case you may want to retain a Palm Beach probate firm that has experience collecting those judgments.
Want to learn more about how to collect a judgment in West Palm Beach?
Check out this entire case by clicking here.