Bisbee, AZ asked in Probate for Colorado

Q: Can I collect an old judgment in Probate when the defendant dies? He is in Aspen, Colorado, with a district court case.

1984 awarded $18,883. He didn't have money back then but has a couple of stores, businesses and properties now.

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  • Probate Lawyer
  • Crossville, TN
  • Licensed in Colorado

A: You can if the judgement has not expired. District court judgments are valid for 20 years, so unless you renewed it for another 20 years before it expired in 2004, you can no longer collect on it. If the judgement was issued by a county court, it was only valid for six years, so you would have needed to renew it in 1990, 1996, 2002, 2008, and 2014 for it to still be valid.

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