What to Do If a Debt Is Not Paid After a Court Judgment

You Won the Case, but There Is No Money

Winning a court case does not guarantee receiving money immediately. In many situations, the main difficulties begin at this stage: the debtor delays enforcement, bailiffs fail to act, and the awarded amount loses its value with every passing month due to inflation.

How to Preserve the Real Value of the Awarded Amount

Here an important legal tool comes into play — one that, unfortunately, many creditors are unaware of — indexation of awarded monetary sums. This is an application submitted to the court requesting recalculation of the debt considering inflation. The idea is simple: if the money was not paid on time, the debt should be increased by the inflation rate. This restores fairness — and the real value of the collected funds.

How to Submit an Application

An application for indexation can be prepared and filed independently or entrusted to a lawyer. However, there are important nuances. The calculation formula requires taking numerous parameters into account, and even a single mistake may nullify all efforts. Legal assistance in such matters is often expensive, and not every specialist is willing to take on such work.

Fortunately, there are now several online calculators that can perform the calculation. But in our view, this is not enough.

That is why our team has created the “Smart Indexation” service. It allows not only automatic calculation of the amount based on your data but also the generation of a ready-made application, submission to the court online, and tracking of the review status in your personal account.

We are proud that this tool already helps creditors throughout Russia achieve justice, saving time, effort and financial resources. And of course, we are always ready to provide assistance and consultation if you have questions at any stage.

What Is the Deadline for Filing an Application?

This is one of the most frequently asked questions from our users. An application for indexation is not a lawsuit; it is a post-procedural application submitted at the stage of enforcement proceedings, and even those deadlines do not fully apply. And this is where the complexity lies. It is not so much a measure of liability as a necessary measure aimed at ensuring compliance with the court judgment. Neither the Civil Procedure Code of the Russian Federation nor the Arbitration Procedure Code of the Russian Federation expressly prescribe a specific deadline for filing such an application. But there are nuances that we discuss in detail in the article on our service’s website — When to File an Application for Indexation of Awarded Sums: Deadlines.