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Who hires us?...
A.S.G. is based in Michigan but offers our asset search and debt collection products nationwide. Although we are most familiar with civil procedure in Michigan, all states have some form of post-judgment enforcement procedures to follow to collect the money for you. The only problem with our nation’s court system is that it is not designed to act as a detective agency to tell you where to collect. In most states, the court does the best it can with the tools it has and if the type of information we at A.S.G. can locate for you is presented to them, they will act on it to collect your judgment. |
Some typical scenarios:“Very often, exposing the judgment-debtor’s nefarious schemes brings him to his/her knees, obviating the need to return to court”. The judgment-debtor has no bank account, automobile, or other tangible assets in his/her name, so there is seemingly nothing to attach to collect the judgment. But there are ways to indirectly reach the judgment-debtor’s assets and income. For instance, if the judgment-debtor runs a business, that business is usually an excellent place to start looking. The judgment-debtor may be using the company to pay all of his/her personal expenses, rendering the company the judgment-debtor’s "alter ego". If the judgment-debtor’s household expenses are routinely paid by a friend, scrutinizing that friend’s finances can often shed light on the judgment debtor’s assets or income. And if the judgment-debtor’s personal expenses are paid through an account held in the name of the judgment-debtor’s spouse, the spouse may be conspiring with the judgment-debtor to defraud the latter’s creditors, making the spouse potentially liable to pay the judgment. With the massive numbers of changes in both state and federal privacy laws over the past five years, many of the tools private investigators once had have disappeared. To maintain compliance with these relatively new laws, even for judgment collection we cannot and will not search for bank account or other financial institution accounts. |
Important Information about Investigations:
Although we are among the best in the industry at what we do and are recognized experts in court, we are not magicians. We cannot make things exist that don’t. We cannot find out the employer of an unemployed person. We cannot always find everything our clients would like within a limited scope job.
Accordingly, we do no guarantee any outcome on any case.