ManglerYJ
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- Joined
- Mar 20, 2005
- Location
- Lexington, NC
As part of their divorce, my wife's ex-husband was supposed to pay half the medical bills from the older two girls. She would take them to the doctor, have to pay the co-pays, prescriptions, and other fees up front and she would give him a "bill" with his half. Sometimes he would pay it, other times not. One particular year at the end of the year he had accrued over $1000, to which she had to take him to small claims court and win a judgement.
Fast forward a bit and we try to have the judgement enforced... She had to pay a filing fee and $30 to have him served by the Sheriff's office. This was 2008 when this was filed. At that time, he was moving in and out between girlfriends, so the only address we had for him was his mom's (I seem to remember them saying it was his "official" address on his liscense)
Fast forward to 2012 when we REALLY needed the money, so we go and ask the court about it. We had to file AGAIN and pay the $30 for the Sheriff to serve him AGAIN. This time, we had his current address because it was his rental house. Never heard anything about it.
I call today to check on it and they say the Deputy attempted to serve, but nobody was home at residence, so he just turned the paperwork back in. She then asks if I have his work address, to which I say yes. I'll have to file AGAIN and pay AGAIN in order to have him served at work. Here's the problem, though..... He is a cement truck driver. Odds are pretty good since they will serve him during the day, that HE WON'T BE AT THE WORK ADDRESS...... The girl tells me that "It's OK... they will just have someone at his work sign for it and tell him that he has been served." If it was that damn easy, why didn't they just mail the notice to him in the first place? Why bother having to have someone "served"?
I'm just so sick of all this. We've spent over $300 (between court costs, filing fees and lost work) trying to collect $1000.
Fast forward a bit and we try to have the judgement enforced... She had to pay a filing fee and $30 to have him served by the Sheriff's office. This was 2008 when this was filed. At that time, he was moving in and out between girlfriends, so the only address we had for him was his mom's (I seem to remember them saying it was his "official" address on his liscense)
Fast forward to 2012 when we REALLY needed the money, so we go and ask the court about it. We had to file AGAIN and pay the $30 for the Sheriff to serve him AGAIN. This time, we had his current address because it was his rental house. Never heard anything about it.
I call today to check on it and they say the Deputy attempted to serve, but nobody was home at residence, so he just turned the paperwork back in. She then asks if I have his work address, to which I say yes. I'll have to file AGAIN and pay AGAIN in order to have him served at work. Here's the problem, though..... He is a cement truck driver. Odds are pretty good since they will serve him during the day, that HE WON'T BE AT THE WORK ADDRESS...... The girl tells me that "It's OK... they will just have someone at his work sign for it and tell him that he has been served." If it was that damn easy, why didn't they just mail the notice to him in the first place? Why bother having to have someone "served"?
I'm just so sick of all this. We've spent over $300 (between court costs, filing fees and lost work) trying to collect $1000.
