Some guidelines regarding debt collection in Germany

It is quite possible that a German person may owe you some money. If you are from Germany, you must have proper idea how much legal power German courts have. You may have become hopeless about your money but there is no need to give up all your hopes. 

As a matter of fact, filing a case and getting your rightful money back in Germany is more simpler and affordable than your expectation, particularly if you are from UK or USA where filing a lawsuit is more expensive and boring.

The German civil court process, controlled by system of Litigation Germany, doesn’t understands any kind of jury, any pre-trial analysis of the case, and statement of witnesses. Moreover, the civil courts of Germany work very fast. Generally, an average case demands at least six months of trial before the final verdict.       

If you want to sue anybody for your debt, you will have to visit the civil court in the town where the person you owe money may be living. If are suing any company, it may be a private limited company or branch of any other company. According to the amount of money involved in the case, there will a considerable amount of money demanded by the court. In case you are applying for the case in any Labor court, there will be separate charges for it. But first you should get an experienced lawyer for your German debt Collection.  

No matter whichever experienced German attorney you select, the judge will take the final decision. If you fight the case in any tribunal, there you will find three judges. In recent times, in the tribunal a vote is first referred by any of the three judges. Therefore, most of the civil cases in Germany are mainly decided by one of the judges. If the trial happens in any Tribunal for Commercial Matters, where mainly one judge and two jury members handles the entire case. This is done to make the court more realistic.

The litigation gets started after submission of a writ before the competent court. In any German Court, it must always be done by a rechtsanwalt Deutschland.  At the primary level you may not need a lawyer, but you have to carry all the details about your case yourself. A German court follows very rigorous rules based on the theory that if you can prove the reality there, you will get benefited. Therefore you should make your case and alibis perfectly strong before stepping into a German court.

You should have a valid receipt with you to prove in the court that some owes you some amount of money. You should hire an experienced attorney of Hamburg who may prove to be helpful in bringing the truth before the judge. The court will also hear the other side of the story from your opponent and they give a date for a personal hearing. In majority of cases, an oral hearing takes place, where judge hears both sides of the story, and then makes the final judgment.