Seattle, WA asked in Collections for California

Q: i have a won a judgement from a trucking company, can i file a lien on money owed the company for loads they have hauled

i won 36,400 from my x-employer for wages and my tools that he kept and refused to let me get when i quit working for him. the judgement reads me vs john doe an individual dba name of trucking company. i want to intercept the payment they will receive from a place they haul from. can i do this if so how? i have already tried to levy their bank account but there was no money in the account, twice.

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A: You should go get something called an assignment order through the courts which forces the employer to hand over their income (i.e. accounts receivable) to you. It looks like Code of Civil Procedure section 708.510 is a good place to start.

Andy

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