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litigation documents vastly reduce the amount of time needed to initiate a lawsuit. Our litigation tracking system enables us to monitor the progress of a large volume of lawsuits. The firm automatically prints copies of pREpARE ANp pILE pIUGINAL Original Petitions to deliver to the necessary parties for Intervention once aEnnoxs AND ciiAnoxs we file suit for delinquent taxes. In every instance, personal service on the taxpayer and other necessary parties is our goal. Personal service assures us thax the proper pariy has OBTAN SEAYICE OF 1HE uWSUIT been served and will bring the matter to the attenrion of the owner directly. oN iNE PMnES Other means of service (Service by Registered Mail, Retum Receipt Requested, Restricted Delivery, Citation by Publication, and Citation by Posting) will be used only when a11 efforts at personal service have been eachausted. Many property owners who aze sued will pay after they have been served wauuNG YnM Tx¢ rWen with a citation. We communicate with the defendant taxpayers about the OWNEA WHO HAS 6EEN SUED amount of taaces and court costs due, coordinate the payment of the account and costs, and the dismissal of the lawsuit. Other property owners wish to enter an instaliment payment agreement after being sued. When we pok ror jmgnnt u yNickk u this is possible, we track the properiy owner's compliance with the possble arur an ot ue ddhdaoe installment ageement closely in order to move the suit Forward in the case kre been :emd. ms e mmiak of noncompliance with the agreement. It should be noted that some court wilYe tYury (34) diys aNer the Fut systems require that suits be pursued to judgment even though a partial dekdnt hu been sn.cd and t6e payment agreement has been executed. In those circumstances we attempt e.piruion af tne rime tirn ro rde an to obtain an agr ~ eed 'udgment and installment agreement whereby we agree to not sell the property if the taxpayer keeps up with his obligations. When an attorney files an answer to a lawsuit on beha7f of a property owner, we immediately contact the attomey to azrange for payment. When the attomey appears to be stalling for time, we may initiate computer produced discovery or summary judgment proceedings to move the suit to paid status. Our litigation tracking system is designed to perniit us to monitor each individual lawsuit and to track all litigation for a particulaz client. It rRncuNG nHE rENDixc uwsurt Permits us to run "aging reports" which tell us all suits in which the defendants have been served for more than 30 days (to allow time for answering the lawsuit). These accounts can then be scheduled for judgment. A copy of a litigation tracking screen is shown in the Appendix Section. Accounts on which we are unable to obtain payment during the litigation JUDGMENr Nn SuF process are set for judgment and sale as soon as practical. The forms for Judgments, Orders of Sale, Sheriff Deeds, and other necessary steps aze all generated by our computerized litigation system. We push for judgment as quickly as possible. Every lawsuit is different with rime constraints varying on each. We attempt to work with the taarpayer during every phase of our litigation in an effort to get the taxes due the District paid. We also have to take into consideration the specific requirements of the District. In this aspect, we are quite successful in pushing for a judgment as quickly as SMion IY - kope M krrkes - Pue 6