Fairway Collections LLC and XXXX XXXX, Attorney at Law in XXXX WA have been attempting to collect a debt from a former employee of my small business. XXXX I received and returned paperwork asking me to garnish her wages. It was clear in the papers that she was not eligible for wage garnishment as her salary was too low. I hand delivered those papers to Fairway Collections. 
Awhile later, I received a collection notice telling me I had been turned into collections for {$1400.00} as the agency had been to court and got a judgment against me and my husband ( which will be on our credit report for 10 years. ) We never received any notice of a hearing, so we were n't able to defend ourselves. We have now been summoned to a hearing on XXXX/XXXX/XXXX to appear in court to " answer questions concerning their/his/her property. '' They are requiring us to bring 5 years of tax returns, an itemized list of records of all accounts receivable, earnest money receipts, deeds, mortgages, appraisals of any property we own, bills, cancelled checks, bank statements, and savings programs, certificates of stocks, financial statements delivered in the last 5 years, and evidence of any credit cards of lines of credit. 
They have also said if we do n't appear they will issue warrants for our arrest. 
Keep in mind this is not, nor never was our debt. It was incurred by an employee that does n't even work for us anymore! Also, she incurred this debt years ago, long before she was our employee. Further more, she was not ever eligible for wage garnishment the entire time she worked for us. I have been clear with Fairway Collections Agency about all of those things, and yet they are coming after us and threatening us with court and jail time. It 's ludicrous. 
I have had to seek help from my accountant and attorney to fight this unfair and irresponsible collection effort. I ca n't believe it could possibly be legal. I feel they have been very intentional about keeping information from us. The first request for information came certified mail and I returned it. Now they claim to have sent a second request for our employee 's wages and a hearing notice, but by their admission, neither the second request or court papers came certified. Also, they send everything in unmarked envelopes. IF they sent them, they would have been delivered to whichever XXXX was working. I never saw anything. I would like to see some action taken against this company as I have heard from several people in my community who have had similar experiences with this agency after going through it myself. 
Also, in researching XXXX XXXX 's ( Fairway Collection Agency 's attorney ) address online, I discovered he has already been disciplined by a state licensing agency. 
