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Small claims court in most areas has a max cap of dollar amount. Someone owed me $8k. Small claims maxes out at $5k. IN RETROSPECT... I could possibly have t
by lowercased 5y ago
Small claims court in most areas has a max cap of dollar amount. Someone owed me $8k. Small claims maxes out at $5k.
IN RETROSPECT... I could possibly have taken them to small claims twice, over two unpaid invoices - each around $4k. That would have kept me under the limit, and possibly sped everything up a lot.
- b112 5y agoEven dragging them into court for part recovery, is a victory. Also, if it is a larger corp, even 50 people, small claims court means you are expending far less energy, and funds, than they do. A corp of even 50 will probably hire a lawyer for advice, and to prep the case, even though the lawyer cannot be in court. The lawyer may try to hound you, trying to pretend they can compel discovery (again check local small claims laws here!) Many small claims courts don't even allow recovery costs. Meaning, they just spent $20k, and pulled half a dozen employees into repeated discussions, you spent $100 on filing, and some of your time. I have so little sympathy for miscreants who have no valid reason to pay, other than the one cited above. Pfft. Need to test it, will take half a year. Come on! Their incompetence is not a valid reason to place an account in arrears. I work, you pay, that's that. (No anger here at all!) So drag them into small claims, and watch them waste multiples of what they would have originally paid.