Priority Among Competing Judgment Creditors: A Warner & Scheuerman Guide to CPLR 5234 and Why Delivery to the Sheriff Decides Who Gets Paid
Two creditors hold judgments against the same debtor. One obtained its judgment eighteen months earlier and has been negotiating politely ever since. The other got its judgment last week and delivered an execution to the sheriff the same afternoon. The second creditor gets the money. New York rewards the party that moves, not the party […]