Judgement Advice Needed

Submitted by debl on Fri, 12/04/2009 - 06:25
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I had a small storage area rented in 1999 in Indiana. I moved to Illinois in 2000 after divorce, career change, job change, stressful school program and frankly forgot about it for awhile. I figured they had cut the lock and put everything for sale. I applied for a car loan recently and found out a judgement had been filed in 2008 from the storage company. I called the court clerk and she said that the sheriff tried to serve at the Indiana address and it was returned. She said they also sent a letter to the old address and it was returned. The amount is around 3,500.00!! The storage area was only around 20.00 a month or so. Is there any possible way to get this removed? What should be my next steps? My credit really took a hit with this.

Hi Debl,

I think you should contact a lawyer and file a motion to vacate the judgment stating that you did not receive the intimations send by them since you had moved to another place by that time.

Fri, 12/04/2009 - 12:51 Permalink
Anonymous (not verified)

Thanks for the advice Justin. What type of lawyer specializes in vacating judgements?
Also, will they set a new date when I do that? Or is it over then?

Debl

Sat, 12/05/2009 - 05:09 Permalink