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Ordered to pay attys fees for opposing side but can't afford the payments, now what?

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Sais the dude who never heard of an auto renew lease. :rolleyes:

you trying to get on EVERYONES nerves? you are doing a stand up job. why dont you go hit the vino wino.
If you want to further argue that point go back to the original thread and we can keep going. You didn't read the post and then, like OHRW were upset when corrected.

Senior members take notice: I will correct you when you are wrong.
 

Banned_Princess

Senior Member
Oooooooo. wrong according to you. :rolleyes:

I know I shall sleep sounder knowing you are on the prowl. who made you king of the universe anyway.


you obviously don't know how to work as a team. unless its spelled tiem. :rolleyes:

I'm sure we will all learn to ignore you. you don't know everything, and you are bound to be wrong sooner or later. and expect we shall give you the same respect you give us.
 
Oooooooo. wrong according to you. :rolleyes:

I know I shall sleep sounder knowing you are on the prowl. who made you king of the universe anyway.


you obviously don't know how to work as a team. unless its spelled tiem. :rolleyes:

I'm sure we will all learn to ignore you. you don't know everything, and you are bound to be wrong sooner or later. and expect we shall give you the same respect you give us.
Oh I've been wrong on this very forum and have been very harshly corrected for it. We all make mistakes and memory can fail anyone at anytime. What must be overcome is this "team" or more accurately, clique, of Senior Members that will provide bad advice and then defend each other's bad advice to the ends of the earth. If you're wrong just say you're wrong or leave the thread be.
 

dcatz

Senior Member
You’re precisely correct, BigMouthWino. If anybody is getting jailed, it’s for contempt of court, not for failure to pay a civil judgment, much less attorney’s fees. Don’t commit contempt and no jail even if no pay. The only exception I can think of would be in family court, where the judgment might also be an on-going order to pay support and willful refusal of that could cost jail. Even then, you’re not talking about attorneys’ fees.

It seemed that this thread, which only eviscerated the OP and family, wasn’t worth an effort. But OHRoadWarrior apparently can’t understand the concept and doesn’t want to. You wouldn’t have to chase papers if you look at the GA Code. Unfortunately, “a return to debtors’ prisons!!” has some panache to it. I saw a lawyer blog to the same effect. He didn’t understand either and it confuses people.

Not only will they not go to jail unless contempt is committed (and they’re unlucky), they won’t stay more than minutes in my state – cost and overcrowding are the reasons. The OP says “she” spent tens of thousands on the case. Lawyers aren’t too keen on seeing such clients go to jail and it certainly makes it harder to get paid.

Wrong is wrong. Why ignore that fact or condemn BigMourthWino? He wasn't the one who insisted on being intransigent. Anybody who has any experience in this area knows that he explained it accurately. And you’d rather have incorrect information disseminated than have somebody’s halo on tilt? OHRW could have just looked at the GA Code or even at Google. As commercial litigators, Chien, in the debt forum, and I have been through this dozens of times. Imagine what it's like to have somebody who doesn't know adamantly insist that up is down and black is white.
 

OHRoadwarrior

Senior Member
the Question
Ordered to pay attys fees for opposing side but can't afford the payments, now what?
The answer, worst case scenario

Failure to pay the judgment could potentially land her in jail on contempt charges.
Sounds pretty straight forward to me. I never claimed there was no in between. Obviously, there is a lot of in between.
 
Sounds pretty straight forward to me. I never claimed there was no in between. Obviously, there is a lot of in between.
Obviously you just didn't know what you were talking about and have a hard time admitting it. :rolleyes:

Causing OP to worry needlessly about the consequences of his mother not paying a civil judgment is plain bad practice. Period.
 

dcatz

Senior Member
OHRW - for Pete’s sakes, this thread just devolved into kids defending a rock fort and it’s still just a rock. Sorry you got in front of the target. Useful to have a subject examined, but I’d bet that it is and stays irrelevant in the real world. That’s what I thought when I saw the post last night.

Adversary counsel already has a judgment against her and her own attorney could get one (‘tho in my state he’d have to go through fee arbitration first, he’d win that sum or close to it). Nobody asked what she was ordered to pay and what she could pay, and whether it’s subject to change over time, although her attorney may have a good idea.

The OP made a couple of simple questions into a Grand Mystery. If “she” has any sense, she’ll sit down with each attorney, come clean with all her finances and cut two enforceable payment agreements. Maybe a sliding scale and maybe not. If she satisfies them that she’s doing the best she can, trying to get water from a stone is useless and a waste of further resources. She saves her credit and they get paid but over more time than they’d like. It’s simple, done all the time and the only sensible thing to do here.

swalsh411 – before the tempest in a teapot, the thread was devoted to denigrating the OP, who himself had enough experience to know better. This thread belonged in the Debtor Forum, it didn’t warrant more than two lines there and it wasn’t worth a damn in terms of information or advice from the start. Anybody who was enlightened by the first 4 responses or who thinks there was anything worth anything in the thread is sadly mistaken.
 
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