Late payment matters is a extraordinary burden for your business. Your own activities to collect outstanding money can be expensive and keeps you away from your daily business.
Thats why we suggest to claim these costs together with your principal claim and let us do the work. You can expect the following sceneries:
- extrajudical effort like compositions or monitored part payment agreements
- application for court oder to pay
- enforcement order
- compulsory enforcement
1. extrajudical actions
After receiving and accepting your claim our german law firm in Berlin send your debtor a first and final payment reminder and set's a time limit to pay or at least to react within 10 days. This shows the debtor a law firm is involved now and a further refusla of payment has consequences. The following sceneries are possible:
- Your debtor pays, you'll get 100% of the invoiced sum and we close the file.
- Your debtor hired a own lawyer, we double-check your claim and ague with trhe debtors lawyer. Depending on your case we'll recommend the actions with the best prospects.
- Your debtor doesn't react at all. We make a credit rating and apply for a court order to pay if its reasonable. If not we close the proceedings if you instruct us to do.
2. application for a court order to pay
We apply as your representative for a court order to pay. Now your claim is pending in court. Your debtor hat 14 days for objections. Even in this part of procedure our pimary ambition is to avoid a lawsuit. Here you can expect the following:
- Your debtor pays (the whole amount or in a part payment agreement), you'll get 100% of the invoiced sum and your debtor pays for the service.
- Your debtor makes use of his right to contrary the claim. We recommend to file a lawsuit if it makes sense. If you want us to do - we close all proceedings.
- Your debtor doesn't react at all. We apply for a enforcement order.
3. enforcement order
The enforcement order is your instrument to execute your claim by using governmental support. The enforcement order is good for 30 years and even if your debtor can't pay today we're your partner to continue the enforcement over years. If your debtor has ojbections now it still can require a lawsuit. (see nr. 2 above).
In every case your debtor has the possibility to stop all actions at every phase by paying the debt.
--- don't hesitate to contact us for further questions in your individual case ---
