Miscellaneous Creditors’ RemediesWritten Interrogatories to Judgment Debtor
Section § 708.010
This section explains when you can use certain procedures to enforce a money judgment. Typically, you can use these procedures as long as the judgment is enforceable. However, if the judgment is delayed because of an appeal with a security deposit, or 'undertaking,' then all proceedings to enforce the judgment are paused. In other situations where enforcement is paused, the halt remains unless a court specifically decides otherwise.
Section § 708.020
If you win a lawsuit and someone owes you money, you can send them written questions to find out about their finances to help collect the debt. However, you can’t send them another set of questions until four months after they’ve answered the first set or after they've been questioned in a different legal procedure. If you do send more questions before that time, they don’t have to answer. These questions can be enforced just like they would be in a regular lawsuit, and the usual limits on the number of questions you can ask at one time apply each time you send them, not all together over multiple times.
Section § 708.030
If you have won a court judgment against someone who owes you money, you can demand that they show you documents to help collect what they owe. You must follow certain rules to make this request. Once you make a request, they have to respond according to these rules. However, you can't make another document request for at least 120 days after they've responded. This rule ensures that debtors aren’t overwhelmed with constant requests. If you ever need to enforce these document requests in court, they're treated like document demands in any typical civil lawsuit.