From Order to Collection: The 90-Day Enforcement Campaign Plan

Enforcement succeeds as a sequence, not a gesture. Here is the 90-day campaign that layers the tools in order — each week building the pressure the last one loaded.

What California Law Says

The tools sequence naturally: audit and demand establish the number; withholding and intercept certification capture the automatic flows; liens secure the assets; license referral and credit reporting apply the pressure; debtor exam maps the evasions; contempt converts willfulness into court supervision.

How to Collect, Step by Step

1. Weeks 1–2: complete the audit, send the demand letter, open or update the DCSS case.
2. Weeks 3–4: perfect the earnings assignment, confirm intercept certification, record the abstract of judgment.
3. Weeks 5–8: push the license referral, verify credit reporting, and notice the debtor exam if payments have not begun.
4. Weeks 9–12: execute on exam findings — levies, third-party garnishments — and file the contempt RFO for the willful holdout.
5. Quarterly thereafter: reconcile the ledger, refresh recorded amounts, and keep every automatic tool armed.

Common Questions

This feels like a lot. What if I only do one thing?

Open the DCSS case and perfect the withholding — the automatic layer alone collects from most employed payors; the campaign exists for the rest.

When in the sequence do most payors fold?

At the license referral and debtor exam stages — the moment evasion starts costing more effort than paying, which is the campaign’s entire design.