{"id":8379,"date":"2025-03-20T13:51:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/?p=8379"},"modified":"2025-03-20T13:51:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:51:04","slug":"charging-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/charging-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"CHARGING ORDERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Stephen J. Muhonen<\/a>, Creditor\u2019s Rights<\/a> Attorney, Racine Olson, PLLP<\/p>\n

As a judgment creditor (holder of judgment entered in your favor), perhaps you have experienced the thrill of obtaining the judgment, and the agony of attempting to collect thereon. The judgment debtor (person or entity for which judgment was entered against) refuses to voluntarily pay up and collection efforts seem to have hit a dead end. The judgment has been recorded in the county where the judgment debtor resides, but unfortunately there is no real property to be located that is in the judgment debtor\u2019s name. Garnishment of bank accounts and wages have not been fruitful, and all the judgment debtor\u2019s personal property is either encumbered by a senior lien holder or not worth the expense that would have to be fronted to have the Sheriff seize and sell at auction. I have found that even though I may have exhausted these referenced options and come up with nothing, there is yet another arrow in the \u201ccollections quiver\u201d called a \u201ccharging order\u201d that can be very helpful.<\/p>\n

If the judgment entered is against an individual who is a member of a limited liability company (LLC), Idaho Code \u00a730-25-503 provides judgment creditors another option in their attempts to satisfy their judgment. In sum, this statute provides a mechanism for a judgment creditor to be able to go to the court, seeking the court\u2019s entry of a Charging Order, that essentially tells an LLC to not pay the judgment debtor LLC member their distribution, but rather, to pay it to the judgment creditor. The statute reads in part,<\/p>\n

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