[Iv]

I had a deadbeat client in Japan. I did want to walk away but my Japanese wife did not. She declared that unacceptable from a Japanese company. The procedure was surprisingly straightforward. When the person refused to come to trial, we were authorized to walk in with a legal specialist to seize down assets, only to find out that the guy had just been evicted by his landlord and all the physical assets already seized.

[throwawayz]

funny my wife offered to do the exact same thing almost and call him at home ( found the # online! ) and really lay it on him how he's stealing food from our kid's mouth.

[amorphid]

If I had a crusading wife, there's no way I'd get between her and someone who owed money to the family's primary source of income. :)

That being said, for me it doesn't make a lot of sense to sue someone without money. That is just throwing more time and money down a hole. It was more productive to learn from the experience, adjust client engagement process to reduce the chance it'd happen again, and move on.