Be particularly careful not to let the statute of limitations run out. Your state has a set of rules that provides that after a certain period of time you can't effectively sue. You've had payments within the last two years, so I am assuming--and I'm not a lawyer, mind you--that your time to sue would run from the last payment he made. But don't just sit there; keep the pressure up, and get whatever you can. Keep dates and amounts of payments, if any.

YOu might want to make an offer of settlement, agreeing to take something less than is still owed, if paid in one payment in full within some suitably short period of time. That may leave a bad taste in your mouth, but if it avoids the expense and argle-bargle (a technical legal term) and uncertainty of suing it might be well worth it. And you might end up ahead of what you'd net if you had to sue.

Dave Oesterreich