How do I get a creditor’s law firm to release a garnishmentof my account if the debt is paid is full?
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How do I get a creditor’s law firm to release a garnishmentof my account if the debt is paid is full?
Earlier this year I finished paying off a settlement though a law firm that I owed a credit card company. This law firm froze my bank account a few years ago, and earlier this year I sent them a letter asking to remove the freeze on my account to close it, no luck. For the past month, I’ve called the law firm twice to get what the bank calls a Praecipe to dissolve but still nothing. What should I do from here to get my bank account closed? The bank will not close unless they get this.
Asked on November 22, 2011 under Bankruptcy Law, Pennsylvania
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Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
If you have actually satisfied the judgment against you in full and the law firm that was representing the judgment creditor has yet to provide you with a full satisfaction of judgment nor any response to your inquiries, I would do the following:
1. write one last letter to the law firm asking that it send you within a certain date a signed full satisfaction of the judgment against you so that you can file it with the court and then provide your bank with a certified copy of it.
2. if not provided by the stated time period, you can contact the State Bar in your state to make a complaint about the law firm and its failure to respond to your requests;
3. file a motion in the court where the judgment is asking the court to order the judgment creditor and the law firm representing it to provide you with a full satisfaction of it.
You might consider consulting with a debt collection attorney as well on the subject.
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