How do I collect money from Small claims court decision?

I was forced to take a company to small claims court because they falsely represented a product they were selling and refused to give me a refund even though I never even received the product. The company did not show up to court so i received a default judgment in my favor. I then went to the store, but they are now out of business. In order for me to get my money, I guess I need to get a subpoena of discovery, and then file for garnishment. The problem is that the company no longer exists, so how do i go about doing this? I need to figure out a way to get contact information on the owner of the store in order to file for discovery. I don't even know the owners name. What would be the best way for me to go about getting my money from the smalls claims judgment?

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Did you try going to the superior court files in your town? I think any business has to file DBA (doing business as) documentation in the superior court and their contact information should be on them...and those files are public. You just go to the superior court, go to the file room (someone there should be able to help you find it) and then check out the file. You can't take it with you, but you can make copies. They should be filed under business name. It's been a long time since I did this...when I did, it was on microfische! But I know that the records should always be public.
First and foremost you can check your local library. Within its reference department you can obtain help finding information on the business and its proprietor.
Normally you should be able to take your decision to a U.S. Marshalls office (found within blue pages) and they can help you either to present the judgment for payment or they can (of course this will take more digging into his business practice) garnish the payment from his bank or the bank he or she did business with.
I think you are headed in the right direction with the subpoena for discovery. The latter will give you insight into his business and possibly his banking information.
It's real difficult to get money back if they no longer work at business but I was told that the next step was to get name of bank individual does the business with or for that matter his personal bank. However I caution you to take the appropriate means to obtain this information. I personally had to give up on 600 big ones owed to me because I couldn't see myself digging through their mail to obtain the name of the bank the degenerates were using. Anyway good luck and I hope you get your court decreed judgment.

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