Self-Help. If you lose a civil case and are ordered to pay money to the winning side, you become a judgment debtor. The court will not collect the money for your creditor, but if you do not pay voluntarily, the creditor (the person you owe money to) can use different enforcement tools to get you to pay the judgment.
Yukon Mayor John Alberts pauses as he answers questions from the media during a recess in a special meeting of the Yukon City Council to discuss the city's current financial problems on Tuesday, March 29, 2015.
At its April 4 meeting, the Paramount City Council elected Peggy Lemons as Mayor and Diane J. Martinez as Vice Mayor. For Lemons, who has served on the Council since 1997, this will be her fifth term as mayor. This will be the sixth time that Martinez, who was first elected to the Council in 1994, has been vice mayor.