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Judgment Enforcement – The Step-by-Step Course

PART EIGHT

25 minutes
THE JUDGMENT DEBTOR EXAMINATION (JDX)

(NOTE: This is one of those chapters that you won’t need to
read super-carefully until you have the occasion to use it.)

What is it?

This is your opportunity to haul the JD back into court and make him or her:
1. produce documents, and
2. answer your questions under oath.

JDX has other names too:
✓ Debtor’s Deposition
✓ OEX – Order of Examination
✓ ORAP – Order to Appear

Ohio Code 2333.90 A judgment creditor shall be entitled to an order for the examination of a judgment
debtor concerning his property, income, or other means of satisfying the judgment upon proof by affidavit

that such judgment is unpaid in whole or in part. Such order shall be issued by a probate judge or a judge of
the court of common pleas in the county in which the judgment was rendered or in which the debtor resides.

Why is a JDX so darn helpful?

I want to repeat something I said early on. There are some honest debtors who have
fallen behind or who have fallen on tough times. They are sometimes easy to work with,

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