At the end of a lawsuit, the prevailing party often ends up with a final judgment awarding it some monetary amount from the losing party. This amount can include amounts for damages, attorney fees and ...

A Baltimore County jury has awarded damages of more than $176,000 against a longtime Pikesville lawyer who erroneously assured a client that a judgment lien on his Howard County home had been ...

Q:My partner and I own a four-unit apartment building as tenants in common. A few years ago, my partner lost a negligence lawsuit, and the court rendered a $200,000 judgment against him. He has a ...

Last year, we posted It just got a little bit harder to enforce judgment liens, which analyzed a Court of Appeals decision that invalidated a judgment lien against third-party purchasers due to the ...

In a victory for the state tax collector, a Maryland appeals court has held that a tax judgment lien never expires. The Court of Special Appeals rendered its decision in overturning a circuit court ...

A factor may receive notice from a judgment creditor that the judgment creditor holds a judgment lien on the accounts of the factor’s client, and be tempted to ignore the notice, since the judgment ...

The U.S District Court issued a default judgment authorizing the United Sates to enforce its tax liens against taxpayer’s property for unpaid federal income taxes. Taxpayer had unpaid federal income ...

Dad was a debtor and owned 49% LLC (Mom owned 49%, and Son owned the other 2%). Creditor first moved to reverse veil-pierce the LLC, and the Court denied this request. Creditor then obtained a ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Doretha Clemons, Ph.D., MBA, PMP, has been a corporate IT executive and professor for 34 ...