eli5: How is money collected from a lawsuit?

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I don’t know anything about civil suits, but from the outside looking in it seems like it’s very easy for defendants to dodge, delay, withhold payment, hide assets, etc. When a judgement is handed down, how is it enforced? And how often, if ever, are assets seized/frozen?

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Along time ago, I went to small claims court and got a judgment of about $1600

It was against transmission repair shop, and they simply sent me a check

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