Why you cannot just hand it to a collection agency
Oklahoma wrote a rule into the Small Claims Procedure Act that surprises most business owners:
“No action may be brought under the small claims procedure by any collection agency, collection agent, or assignee of a claim…”
12 O.S. §1751(B)
Tulsa County Small Claims Court is the cheapest, fastest collection forum in the state — it is closed to agencies and debt buyers. Your options are therefore: sell the receivable for pennies on the dollar and let someone chase it in district court, or collect it in your own company's name.
At TSC Law, Mr. Ingham does not take the claim from you - he prosecutes it for you, as your legal counsel - the Judgment is yours.
The receivables that fit Small Claims Court
- Open accounts — the running customer account with invoices and partial payments;
- Accounts stated — the balance the customer acknowledged and then did not pay;
- Goods sold and delivered — commercial sales contracts;
- Services rendered — from professional work to equipment time;
- NSF checks — checks that will not clear due to insufficient bank funds.
Recurring creditors and batch filing
If your business generates the same claim over and over — a gym with membership defaults, a supplier with a drawer of aging invoices, a clinic with unpaid balances it may not assign — the economics change in your favor. The evidence is standardized, the Affidavits are near-identical, and multiple cases can move through the same courthouse on parallel tracks: filings batched, court dates clustered, and Judgments flow consistently. Mr. Ingham and his TSC Law Team can build that pipeline once and then feed it, and quote you volume engagements accordingly.