{"id":14522,"date":"2013-06-14T14:19:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T18:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=14522"},"modified":"2013-06-14T14:19:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T18:19:45","slug":"small-claims-court-6-collecting-an-unpaid-debt-via-a-city-marshal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=14522","title":{"rendered":"Small Claims Court 6. Collecting an unpaid debt via a City Marshal"},"content":{"rendered":"

After I received the Small Claims Court Notice of Judgment, dated April 30, I was instructed to wait another 30 days before taking the next step to collect the debt.<\/a><\/p>\n

In the meantime, I gathered the information I needed. The court had handed to me a list of New York City Sheriffs, one per borough, and a much longer list of City Marshals. I had to choose whom to use to collect my money.<\/p>\n

I decided on the marshal \u2014 because there were more of them than there were sheriffs and because several were women\u00a0\u2014 and selected one whose office was near my lawyer’s office.<\/p>\n

The Small Claims Court Notice of Judgment I’d received in the mail had put Chaz back onto the case as an individual defendant, along with the co-op as a corporate defendant. I had long since accumulated all the specific information I needed to target every defendant’s monetary base. Chaz worked and I had the information about his employer; the corporation had two bank accounts, and I had the account information for both; and Chaz owned property, i.e., his shares in the co-op. I had his mortgage bank information.<\/p>\n

I called the marshal to find out what she needed from me. She told me, first, that I could go after only one defendant at a time. And I needed to write her a letter stating my situation:<\/p>\n