Legal Administration Services
While our goal is to accelerate the asset recovery process, there are some accounts that will require a court judgment to restore your assets. Our goal is to take the weight of this process off your shoulders, and smooth your way through the courts.
Our legal administration services ease the small claims court process by helping you to navigate each stage, from pretrial and trial appearances to garnishment follow-up and court queries.
Starting with our collection software (Collect), each debtor is given a unique identifier, allowing our staff to track the course of their collections process. Every conversation and action taken between Metropolitan Legal Administration Services Inc., the debtor and the courts is recorded, providing supporting documentation should the asset recovery process reach the court system.
We will also keep you abreast of changes to the legal process. For example, as of January 2010, the financial limit of suits brought in small claims court increases from $10,000 to $25,000. You may choose to initiate pre-legal collection for accounts in this range. When combined with automated harvesting to the Metropolitan Legal program, this will allow you to expedite the legal process if assets are unrecoverable in 60 days.
We will notify the debtor via mail or registered mail, and file the claim, accompanied by all loan, statement and supporting documentation and purchase documentation. If the debtor files a defense, we will guide you through the pretrial conferences and the trial. Judgment will be awarded at trial, or if the debtor does not respond within 40 days of the notification. Judgments are usually enforced through garnishment of the debtor’s bank account, POE or RRSPs.
Contact us today for more information on how Metropolitan Legal Services can assist you.