Saturday, January 19, 2008

Court odered judgment. Collections from canada harrassing

A friend of mine is a Katrina survivor and now lives in California. She is being hounded by a guy who took over a judgment in 2004 that was issued in the courts in New Orleans. He was contacting all the people he could find on her website that were connected to her and sending them faxes and emails and calling them, telling them that he was collecting a judgment that she owes and asking if they could provide any information. He reached me and told me that he was going to take all the money that we make together on a venture we are working on that was posted on our website.
I had her send him a debt validation letter. He responded saying that he is not a third party bill collector. He sent her the judgment that shows that the original creditor had the judgment assigned to him in 2004 and he is now the judgment creditor. He said he is not bound by the Fair Debt Creditors Act.
We put in the letter requesting that he cease and desist in calling other person related to her and that she would file a complaint with the AG and file suit against him he continued to do so.
His address is in Vancouver Canada. Does he have jurisdiction on this judgment that’s from the New Orleans court when he lives in Canada and she is living in California?
I know she needs an attorney but she can’t afford one – she is trying to work that out.
What she wants is for him to stop contacting third parties and she wants to know her rights. She has some property in New Orleans. The judgment is only $2,000. He wanted her to pay $700 today and he would call it quits but she doesn’t have them money. And, how would she know he would go away if she paid it. He wanted her to wire it to her.
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I am not sure about this at all.
sounds fishy, but court ordered judgments are different than credit related issues
i think people can go to jail over this stuff.

I would also think that the court or person who sued would be the only person that could hurt you.

I do believe that a FCRA probably does not work with judgments. But most if not all are bound to not harras. Seems like if he was real he would threaten jail.

I would say contact the court if you intend to pay. then the state atorney general
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Thanks very much. She got an attorney involved and the matter is being settled amicably with a settlement agreement for a very low amount!!

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