| R025-P1-B001 — Wrong jurisdiction |
Answered: C001–C002 define the federal framework |
Legal source and character of the obligation; evidence category: governing enactment and type of issuing tribunal |
Treating every court charge as a Title 18 fine |
Read the generic jurisdiction/scope provision for the identified legal category; keep state/local/tribal/territorial or foreign law in a separate component |
| R025-P1-B002 — Charge type unknown |
Answered: category table and C017–C019 |
Fine, restitution, assessment, cost, or another charge; evidence category: separately stated legal obligation |
Applying fine interest/default rules to an unidentified total |
Compare the relevant federal charge-authorizing provision with the express nouns in §§3572, 3573, 3611–3612 |
| R025-P1-B003 — Fine versus restitution/assessment |
Answered within fine scope; other categories excluded: C017, C024–C025 |
Separate obligation categories and applicable statutory cross-references |
Assuming shared collection language makes all relief powers identical |
Read the particular cross-reference for the selected category; preserve complete restitution/assessment work for its own pass |
| R025-P1-B004 — Immediate versus deferred/installment payment |
Answered: C007–C010, C070 |
Judicial payment mode; evidence category: operative payment language, distinguished from an administrative arrangement |
Treating any periodic collection as a court installment judgment |
Read §3572(d) and, if necessary, published majority opinions addressing that precise distinction in the relevant federal circuit |
| R025-P1-B005 — Operative judgment unknown |
Partial: C006–C010, C056 |
Which terms actually control; evidence categories: original/amended order, entry, legally effective stay |
Inferring a schedule, waiver, or current due amount from a generic form |
Read public rules on judgment entry, amendment, and stays; actual judgment interpretation stays held |
| R025-P1-B006 — Financial change asserted |
Answered as predicate, facts held: C009–C010, C048 |
Materiality, economic change, possible effect on payment, applicable notification duty |
Treating an assertion as a finding or assuming the only duty is §3572(d)(3) |
Compare §3572(d)(3) with §3563(a)(7), then read necessary published interpretations of materiality without person/case-record queries |
| R025-P1-B007 — Request versus court order |
Answered: C010, C056–C058, C068 |
Whether relief was ordered and entered; evidence category: judicial disposition, not submission alone |
Treating a pending or submitted motion as changed payment terms |
Read Rules 32(k), 47, 49 and any generic applicable local rule; do not query actual filing status |
| R025-P1-B008 — Defendant request versus government petition |
Answered: C010–C013 |
Statutory route and petitioner category; evidence category: authorized petition and required showing |
Treating a defendant’s §3573-labeled document as the required government petition |
Read complete §3573 and public DOJ remission policy; investigate a distinct statutory route separately if one is proposed |
| R025-P1-B009 — Threshold/base unknown |
Partial: C019, C032, C034–C036 |
Fine category, threshold comparison, unpaid principal, delinquent/default principal, allocation conventions |
Reusing the $100 reporting threshold, $2,500 interest threshold, and surcharge bases interchangeably |
Read fine-specific official computation instructions addressing aggregation, base, day count, and rounding; no amount calculation until all are verified |
| R025-P1-B010 — Delinquency versus default |
Answered: C026–C030 |
Applicable due payment and elapsed legal periods; evidence categories: due terms and payment chronology |
Calling a payment “defaulted” merely because it is 90 days after the original due date |
Read §§3572(h)–(i), 3612(d)–(e), and applicable computation authority without calculating an actual deadline |
| R025-P1-B011 — Date versus receipt uncertain |
Partial: C022, C028–C031, C059 |
Entry, due date, determination, notification, dispatch, receipt, and legally effective service |
Equating notice creation, mailing, and receipt; adding a universal three days |
Locate official generic notification instructions and any necessary published majority holding on the specific statutory notification issue; no receipt/record query |
| R025-P1-B012 — Mandatory interest versus discretionary waiver |
Partial: C032–C039 |
Trigger satisfaction, applicable exception, decision-maker, finding, order, postjudgment authority |
Assuming hardship automatically stops interest or that mandatory interest cannot be waived |
Read §3612(f)–(h) and a fine-specific published decision resolving the temporal jurisdiction issue in the relevant circuit |
| R025-P1-B013 — Accrual versus collection |
Answered as distinction: C033, C037–C038, C067 |
Whether accrual is limited, interest waived, or collection merely suspended |
Treating administrative collection inactivity as stopping accrual or forgiving debt |
Compare the exact relief language in §3612 with JM 9-143.400 and any publicly issued operative waiver rules |
| R025-P1-B014 — Notice/hearing incomplete |
Partial: C029–C031, C040–C042, C051–C059 |
Chosen response, applicable procedural route, notice adequacy, waiver/exception |
Assuming either that every response needs the same hearing or that no hearing is needed |
Read the rule for the particular selected remedy; use published majority authority only for an unresolved specific notice/hearing proposition |
| R025-P1-B015 — Willful refusal versus inability |
Answered statutory protection; facts held: C041, C043–C046 |
Knowledge, resources, refusal, indigency, reasons for failure |
Inferring willfulness from unpaid principal or inferring an automatic discharge from inability |
Read §3614(a)–(c) together and, only if necessary, a published fine-specific interpretation of the selected element |
| R025-P1-B016 — Bona fide efforts unestablished |
Answered statutory requirement; facts held: C044–C046 |
Nature and sufficiency of efforts; evidence category: lawful relevant effort evidence, without collecting it |
Equating inability, silence, or an unpaid amount with insufficient good-faith efforts |
Research published majority interpretations of §3614(b)(1)’s efforts language, keeping constitutional expansion outside this pass |
| R025-P1-B017 — Default response versus automatic incarceration |
Answered: C016, C040–C047 |
Court findings, remedy chosen, alternatives, statutory protections, separate offense adjudication |
Treating the default clock as a custody sentence |
Read the selected response statute and required procedural rule together; no custody prediction or actual sentence calculation |
| R025-P1-B018 — Fine balance versus property execution |
Answered boundary; execution excluded: C062–C064 |
Qualifying judgment, lien consequences, remedy, protected property, execution prerequisites |
Assuming either universal asset availability or universal protection from installment compliance |
Begin a separate generic §3613/property-remedy component, including the relevant exemptions and procedural law, before any execution conclusion |
| R025-P1-B019 — Sentence-date/application issue |
Partial: C013, C038, C072–C079 |
Relevant offense, conviction, imposition, judgment, and interest-liability eras |
Treating compilation date or sentencing date as every clause’s applicability test |
Complete a provision-specific session-law/effective-date audit using official enactments; keep actual dates held |
| R025-P1-B020 — Submitted form versus granted relief |
Answered: C056–C058, C068–C069 |
Form role, authorized signer, supporting material, judicial disposition |
Treating a completed form, filing receipt, or judge-signature blank as an order |
Read the exact public form edition and generic local motion instructions; verify legally required decision process, without submission/status inquiry |
| R025-P1-B021 — Collection suspension versus remission |
Answered: C011–C013, C038, C067 |
Administrative action versus statutory waiver/remission; evidence category: nature and scope of authorized action |
Treating suspended collection as cancellation of the judgment |
Compare JM .400 with §3573 and §3612(h); examine public delegation material if authority is material |
| R025-P1-B022 — Official FAQ versus statute |
Answered conflict: C032–C036, C080 |
Whether the explanation accurately tracks the governing provision and era |
Treating an official publisher’s shorthand as an amendment to Congress’s text |
Compare the exact FAQ statement to the current statute and relevant session law; retain unresolved conflict rather than calculate from shorthand |