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Judgment Enforcement – The Step-by-Step Course

✓ money back from a loan he made to someone else,

✓ commissions,
✓ payment from work he has completed as an Independent Contractor,

✓ royalties from a book,

✓ money from a patient,
✓ inheritance money from an attorney,

✓ real estate commissions from the home office,

✓ tax money from the government,
✓ and so on.

As I write this, I am collecting money from the owners of a sheltered living home that
ripped off an elderly woman. The court has ordered their clients to pay me instead of the
owners of the home. I’m a happy boy.

The words “Assignment Order” don’t appear in any law that I’m familiar with. It’s just
a shorthand way describing it. So, the wording in your state’s code for “Assignment
Order” may look very different. But every state I’ve worked in offers this as an optional
enforcement remedy.

Example: The wording in California for Assignment Order (AO)

court may order the judgment debtor to assign to the judgment creditor … all or part of a right
Code of Civil Procedure 708.510. (a) … upon application of the judgment creditor … the
to payment due or to become due . . . including but not limited to the following types of payments:

✓ Wages due from the federal government that are not subject to withholding under an
earnings withholding order.

✓ Rents.
✓ Commissions.
✓ Royalties.

✓ Payments due from a patent or copyright.
✓ Insurance policy loan value.

Example: In New York, the Civil Procedure Law (NY CPLR § 5227) says this:

…any person who is shown is or will become indebted to the judgment debtor, the court
may require such person to pay to the judgment creditor the debt upon maturity, or so much of it
as is sufficient to satisfy the judgment, and to execute and deliver any document necessary to effect
payment.

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