If the judgment is in your favor and the defendant has not complied with the judgment within ten days after the magistrate signed it, you may initiate the collection process. If the defendant is a corporation, you may pay a small fee and have the clerk's office issue a Writ of Execution, which is a court document directing the sheriff to seize and sell some of the defendant's property in order to satisfy the judgment. If the defendant is an individual rather than a corporation, you must take additional steps before the clerk can issue the Writ of Execution. The clerk's office must issue a document known as a Notice of Rights to Have Exemptions Designated. You must then have the document served upon the defendant, either through the sheriff's office or by certified mail, return receipt requested.
Judgments remain on record for ten years and are renewable for another ten.
The party who loses can appeal the decision within ten days. The magistrate will tell you how to do this. If you appeal, you must pay the clerk an additional fee. If your case is appealed by either party, a new trial will be scheduled in district court. This trial proceeds as if there had been no previous trial.