Wisconsin State Law Library

The Wisconsin State Law Library, Milwaukee Legal Resource Center, and Dane County Legal Resource Center will be closed on Thursday, November 27th for the Thanksgiving holiday. WSLL and MLRC will be open the next day on Friday, November 28th; DCLRC will be closed until the following Monday.

Thanksgiving postcard circa 1900. Creative Commons

To submit a question to the Wisconsin State Law Library while we are closed, you may call us at 608-267-9696 or Ask a Librarian online. We will respond to questions and requests on Friday, November 28th.

Phone service has been restored for the Wisconsin State Law Library.

Thank you for your patience during this interruption of service!

Phone service is temporarily unavailable in the Wisconsin State Law Library. Any calls made at this time to our reference or circulation lines will not go through. The branch libraries in the Dane and Milwaukee courthouses do have working phone lines.

If you need immediate assistance, please fill out our online contact form to send us an email. Thank you for your patience as we resolve this issue. Watch this blog for updates.

We are often asked about collection law. To find information we turn to Wisconsin Collection Law, by Robert A. Pasch.

In its second edition, Wisconsin Collection Law is volume 12 and 13 of the Wisconsin Practice Series published by Thomson Reuters. It is a comprehensive publication on substantive and procedural law.

Topics include:

• Pre-suit considerations
• Collection regulation
• Consumer credit transactions
• Marital property concerns
• Bulk transfers
• Obtaining a civil or small claims money judgment
• Attachment
• Injunctive relief
• Replevin: non-consumer and consumer
• Judgments and foreign judgments
• Executions and exemptions
• Supplemental proceedings/examination
• Garnishment
• Receivers
• Creditors' actions
• Other collection issues

Sample and mandatory court forms are also included. Volume 13 consists entirely of appendices referring to selected Wisconsin statutes and regulations, commonly used statutes of limitations, and federal acts.

Wisconsin Collection Law is available to check out at the State Law Library and our branch libraries in the Milwaukee and Dane County courthouses. It is also available on Westlaw for free in our libraries.