thank you mightymoose! This very good info for me. So if I can get her severed in california the judge won't throw it out because she has moved to tx in the mean time?
You're not getting the entire picture.
Let's do it by the numbers.
Say you serve her.
Say she misses the court date, because she's in Texas, or enjoying herself at Disneyland.
Why she misses court is unimportant.
She missed court.
You get a default judgment.
That judgment is for $5,000.
Now the battle begins.
That California judgment is useless in Texas, unless you take it to Texas and get a Texas court to domesticate it.
Be advised, the defendant can fight back at this point, and they often do.
They become very protective of their credit.
They don't want that damn judgment on it.
So, they fight.
Often they are successful in thwarting a foreign judgment to be domesticated in Texas.
This website is ONE of MANY that explain how to domesticate a California judgment in a Texas court.
http://www.ehow.com/how_7864635_collect-california-judgment-texas.html
Now, it sounds simple, but it is far from simple.
Because now you have to enforce (collect) on the domesticated judgment.
You can hire companies to do this for you.
They often charge anywhere from 33-50% (or morfe) of your judgment to do the legwork.
They don't guarantee a result.
They are probably about 40% successful.
The biggest problem is Texas.
The things you want to satisfy your judgment are often protected from seizure in Texas.
Texas is a very debtor friendly state.
Again, good luck!
