Judgment Collection - the best explanation of judgment collection from Judgment Broker Mark Shapiro, Judgments do not collect themselves, and the courts will not help you collect your judgment. Usually, a judgment is just a piece of paper with an imaginary value. Most people do not understand how hard it is to recover most judgments. More than 90 percent of them are never recovered.  The methods of recovering judgments are not guaranteed, and bankruptcy can kill most judgments.