We all talk about sueing but let me tell you what happened to me.  I had a client in another state that kept promising payment and lying to me.  I had had enough and went to the courthouse in TN, where I live, to file suit.  They told me if I filed a suit in TN for work done in another state, it would really do no good.  So I called Alabama, where the search came from, and they said I could not file a suit for a bad check there for work done in Tn.  It came down to the "principle of the matter", and I was determined to file suit.
  Next step, TN told me if I filed the suit in General Sessions Court, they wouldn't even serve them with papers.  If I filed in Civil Court, they would file the summons with the state (for extra money, of course) and the summons would be served.  I chose that route.
  Of course, the client didn't show up for court and I recieved a judgement against them.  Now, to file this judgement in Alabama, I would have to travel there, hire an attorney and might be able to have it entered in their system, for a LOT more money.  I had already spent just about as much as the $900 I was owed. 
  My only hope is this client will be traveling in TN, get pulled over and be told that they have an outstanding judgement against them in TN.  But, I was also told that the officer probably wouldn't even mention it. 
  This is not right!  The work was ordered from Ala. for work to be completed in Tn.  This was a LLC company and there should be some recourse because most of us work for companies out of state.  Can they all just decided not to pay us and there is nothing much we can do about it?  If that is the case, the system needs some work.
  I always thought that it was easier to collect a bad check than just have unpaid outstanding invoices.  Does anybody have any feedback on this?  It makes it scary to work for out of state companies if you can't collect your losses.