shaniece28
New Member
My question is similar to the post submitted by member "marm" on 8/13/08.
I was served papers that I was being sued in superior court by capital one for 2100.00. I filed the answer within two days of receiving the notice. I contacted the attorney to settle,. I owed 1500 and I agreed but not what they were suing for. They never responded. Everything was certified, sent via email and fax and I kept all confirmations. I was told to wait for a notice for a hearing or trial. I never received one. I received papers from the attorney for Capital one (interrogatories, production of documents). I sent them many letters over time that answered the questions, but never formally answered each question, etc. I still continued to ocntact them offering to pay, even laid out a payment plan where they would have been paid the 1500 I agreed I owed by this month. Late June Ireceived a letter from them, informal, two sentence letter stating ot pay a judgement was entered. A month later I received a notice from the court of mediation date. I contacted the mediation office asking for a change of date and that is when I found out that the mediation was no more because they found out a judgement was entered therefore I did not have to attend. This was last week. I contacted the court they sadi the judgement was entered on June 13. I did not get any notice ron the court of a hearing or judgement, the attorney never sent me a formal court document for judgement and when they sent the informal letter that any creditor could have sent, it was three weeks after the court awarded the judgement. I wanted to appeal, which iwas told I could still submit although the 30 days was up. I was told by the clerk to send with an explanation of what occurred. But my question is how can this be done. How can a judgement be netered without me being notified of a hearing, etc. I never receive anything from the court bewtween being served and then the order for mediation, which was cancelled days after being notified. What can I do at this point? I am in the state of Georgia
I was served papers that I was being sued in superior court by capital one for 2100.00. I filed the answer within two days of receiving the notice. I contacted the attorney to settle,. I owed 1500 and I agreed but not what they were suing for. They never responded. Everything was certified, sent via email and fax and I kept all confirmations. I was told to wait for a notice for a hearing or trial. I never received one. I received papers from the attorney for Capital one (interrogatories, production of documents). I sent them many letters over time that answered the questions, but never formally answered each question, etc. I still continued to ocntact them offering to pay, even laid out a payment plan where they would have been paid the 1500 I agreed I owed by this month. Late June Ireceived a letter from them, informal, two sentence letter stating ot pay a judgement was entered. A month later I received a notice from the court of mediation date. I contacted the mediation office asking for a change of date and that is when I found out that the mediation was no more because they found out a judgement was entered therefore I did not have to attend. This was last week. I contacted the court they sadi the judgement was entered on June 13. I did not get any notice ron the court of a hearing or judgement, the attorney never sent me a formal court document for judgement and when they sent the informal letter that any creditor could have sent, it was three weeks after the court awarded the judgement. I wanted to appeal, which iwas told I could still submit although the 30 days was up. I was told by the clerk to send with an explanation of what occurred. But my question is how can this be done. How can a judgement be netered without me being notified of a hearing, etc. I never receive anything from the court bewtween being served and then the order for mediation, which was cancelled days after being notified. What can I do at this point? I am in the state of Georgia