Legal Advice - Need a lawyer with a Bounty Hunter's heart

Do you want a lawyer or a bounty hunter?

Hire that homeless guy that helped TzuDohNihm with his divorce for $500.

That's what I was going to bring up.

TzuDohNihm can find people.

An actual letter on real letterhead would work better. Emails are easy to ignore and delete.

This thing's got "international incident" written all over it.

You can't sell the debt to a collection agency or somesuch?

I found him and gave him some soup and a sandwich and he got things back up and rolling.

Or, at the very least, send some guys over?

Collection agencies (at least in the USA) are how you collect debts. They charge a percentage of the amount recovered. They will send letters, make calls, knock on doors. Lawyers can be used for breach of contract but they will quickly charge more than the debts are worth.

Have you tried drafting a certified, printed letter and sending it to them? Sometimes something in print can really strike fear into the hearts of men. Something about threatening to "take the appropriate actions to recover the amount due" should do the trick.

Either that or get rid of the disadvantage of being on another continent and visit their offices in person armed with a 2X4.

Too bad Edward Woodward is dead. You could've always sent him a passionate letter about equalizing things.

Also, make them work off their debt in exchange for sexual favors. From here forward, every dollar they spend will have the distinct taste of dick.

If the client has any assists, file a lean. Better yet file a lean on the name holder for any credit cards they may have used. Some time small company or companies just starting out will use a personal credit card instead of a corporate card. If said person has a stake in the company, you can, then put a lean against their own personal assists. Remember cheeks and credit card transactions are contracts, and contracts leave opening for leans.

That would be a lien on assets.

Even on a small company the only way to get a lien would be to take them to small claims court. That would require Tati to appear in court in the county of the US company he was suing (he could authorize a representative but NOT use a lawyer; no lawyers in small claims). If the amount is adequately substantial it would graduate from small claims to regular court (depends on local law).

There may be a way to do this from Argentina but I don't know about that.

ETA: You MIGHT be able to do a "mechanic's lien" but I'm not sure how that works for international work, since normally you file in the county where the work was performed. If any of the companies who owe you money are in California, email me directly and I'll get you more information on how to execute a mechanic's lien against people/companies in California. I'm not sure if you can do this after 90 days past completion of the work, or as a subcontractor supplying to a contractor (if the person who owes you money isn't the one who owns the final work product then you can't lien against the final work product).

The complexity of the law in the US sucks. The three companies I am invalided in have law firms that site on the boards, just because the law is to complex for anyone person to understand. You need legal experts in multiple fields.

Belethedheliel right about that, by the way. Selling the dedt to Collection agencies might get you ten cents on the dollar, but it might be your best way, if the debts are small.

I'm guessing you either aren't a native english speaker or have massive problems with typing. You might want to explore options to improve your ability to communicate through typewritten messages if you hope to be taken seriously.

The written word is never going to be my spaciality. I am much better in person. I post on board like this just to practice, as much as anything. In school everything else was so easy, but writing. Writing I have always had to work real hard at, just to pass. It funny every other subject in school I could get an A in with no effort, a lot of times, with no studying even. Writing I had to work my ass of just to pass. I can learn anything else, almost, like osmosis, but grimmer and spelling. My curse in life is I can learn through osmosis, but my communication skills suck. My verbal skills are much better. As long as I remember not to get exited, but then again I have had 7 years of speech therapy, and 7 years of public speaking, felt like Eliza Doolittle growing up.