Foreign judgments (judgments issued by courts in other states then given to us to domesticate in Texas) are interesting work for us. That’s because the debtor is usually caught unaware once we start the process of domesticating the judgment.

We never cease to be amazed at the incompetence of most lenders.  We are frequently retained to stop a foreclosure in circumstances where the lender has been dealing with the borrower and then, despite accepting payments or has reached an agreement with the borrower, goes forward with foreclosure. But sometimes, it is much worse.

As you have probably guessed, we spend a significant amount of time representing people trying to collect a debt.  As part of that process we use a device known as a turnover order of the debtors assets.

We were hired by a wife that obtained a judgment against her ex-husband as part of the divorce.

Darrell Cook is the founder of our firm and when his father was alive his father would call and say “How’s business, son?” and Darrell would always say, “Business is good, Dad, people are still cheating one another.” They would both laugh and have the kind of conversations that fathers and sons have.

One of the debtors we obtained a judgment against owned an airplane that was an experimental aircraft and was apparently of great value.  The debtor parked the plane at his home in the country.  Apparently, he was unconcerned that we could do anything about the aircraft and so he just left it unattended in his yard.