ok my friend has to go to court pretty soon over adebt that is owed to a dr.s office and he is worried that if he doesn't show up to this court date he will have a warrant out for his arrest can the judge issue a warrant for this type of case?
2007-05-21 09:26:53 · 6 answers · asked by jade 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Not in the US. This is a civil dispute not a criminal one. However, not appearing will result in a default judgement and the plaintiff will get whatever they ask for.
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2007-05-21 09:31:20 · answer #1 · answered by Melli 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only reason why a warrant would go out would be if the appearance was due to the issuance of a subpoena. To ignore a subpoena is contempt of court and a warrant can be issued for that. However, the others are correct that in the situation you have described, it is most likely that if your friend doesn't show up, then the judge will assume he doesn't care enough about the case to dispute it and a default judgment will be rendered against him.
2007-05-21 09:58:07 · answer #2 · answered by rac 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. A judge can't issue a warrant of arrest for a civil debt, however, the plaintif can seek for judgement in your absence, and may later seek a custodial sentence if you fail to redeem the debt after judgement.The only person who can seek custodial sentence if you owe them and don't go to court to show cause why you should not pay the debt is the IRS or any other arm of the government eg: public health dept. etc.
2007-05-21 09:39:05 · answer #3 · answered by Leof 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
opposite to what somebody right this is saying. no longer showing up for courtroom in a civil case won't bring about a warrant and next arrest. in the adventure that your brother ignores the summons, the series enterprise will win by ability of default. they gets each and every thing they ask for; activity, costs, criminal experts costs, and so on., regardless of if or no longer they are legally entitled to them or no longer. as quickly as they have a judgment against him, the series enterprise can garnish his wages (if his state enables it), they might grab his economic corporation money owed and the different sources that he might very own, placed liens on his homestead, and so on., Judgments are good for up 2 many years in some states and that they are renewable. as a fashion to circumvent a default judgment, he has to respond to the summons and take place in courtroom. greater advantageous, yet for $25,000 the series enterprise will no longer provide up so surely. His ought to look for advice from a customer regulation lawyer to guard his pastimes. in the adventure that your brother loses the courtroom case and finally ends up with a judgment against him, he can consistently record for financial ruin.
2016-11-04 22:00:05 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but you will have a judgment against you for the debt which will hurt your credit record.
2007-05-21 09:32:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no they just go ahead and set up how much will be taken from his pay check.
2007-05-21 09:34:56 · answer #6 · answered by spiritwalker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋