Justin Painter Investigations

IT IS EASY TO GET A CIVIL JUDGMENT. IT IS NOT SO EASY TO COLLECT ON THE JUDGMENT.

Small claims and civil courts are full of cases of personal injury, breach of contract, malpractice and property damage everyday. And everyday people get monetary judgments from a few hundred dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Believe it or not, that is the easy part. Next comes the part that you actually to try collect your judgment. And just because you win your case, does not mean you will collect a dime.  And that is where Justin Painter Investigations comes in.

          As licensed private investigators, we have access to information that the public does not. It enables us to obtain information about an individual such as assets, property, bank accounts and stock portfolios. With a legal judgment against somebody, you can collect even if they refuse to pay.  Liens on property, levying bank accounts and attaching wages are the most common way to get what has legally been determined as yours.

                There are a lot of companies out there that specialize is asset searching and judgment collection. You provide them the information and they do they work. They don’t even require you to pay them anything up front. Sounds great but there is a catch. Some of these companies will charge you up to 50% of what they recover. A $100,000 judgment is going to cost you $50,000 to collect. These services are worth it if the defendant in the case is truly hiding their assets. These companies can spend hours and hours researching and skip tracing accounts. But there is an alternative for simpler cases.

                Justin Painter Investigations offers a simple asset search service. For a small flat fee, we will search out state or nationwide bank accounts for you to levy, stock and brokerage accounts and property to attach liens. Our service is designed for the judgment holder that believes the defendant has the money to pay, is not hiding it, but does not know where to look. We operate with the name and personal information given of the defendant to do our searches. We don’t spend hours looking for aliases or accounts hidden in other person’s names.  This is a straight forward search of the open assets of the defendant. Because it does not require as much research time as a multi-layer search, we can offer the service at a low price, and you get to keep 100% of what is recovered.  A good example of this is an assignment we took from a local civil attorney not long ago. He had a quarter of a million dollar judgment against an individual. He knew she was not hiding her money, he just did not know where it was. He hired us to do a simple asset search and for the cost of a few hundred dollars, we found her bank account with over $112,000 which he was able to levy right away, satisfying almost half the judgment in one simple move.