Originally Posted by
ZBowFlyz
A court can't just seize every bit of cash a person has due to a civil award. Thankfully, the laws don't work that way. If you sign then break the agreement here is the process:
- RAH must sue you and win in Indiana then the court will issue an order to pay. If you refuse the order the court will issue a wage garnishment order.
- Your new employer has to be served with the garnishment order. However, you must live in a state where wage garnishments to collect civil awards are legal.
- Your state of employment must also recognize the legality of the RAH agreement. So even if they allow garnishments on a civil award, but the RAH note is not legal in your state of employment then you can get an injunction to block the garnishment.
- It gets even more complicated if you don't live in Indiana, work for an employer in another state but reside in a third state. If you work in again, say VA, but live in FL, VA allows the contract but FL does not or does not allow garnishments for civil awards, you can then sue RAH in a FL court to overturn the civil award.
Again, this is not a simple depending on your residency and relevant state laws. This is just s guess, but I'd be surprised if RAH took this all the way to a garnishment order.
Sounds like a big expensive headache to me
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This all may be true, but rjet can't sue anyone for such a low amount of money and come out ahead...it'll cost them more to go through the legal process than they would collect....and they know this.
What they can, and will, do is sell your debt to a two-bit low-life bill collector who will make a mess of your credit and make your life difficult.
At which point it will be you racking up the legal bill paying a lawyer to make it go away, which is very difficult and next to impossible.