Pay for Work Completed

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DON"T TRASH THE WORK YOU DID!!!!

If you do, your legal standing goes to pot. As it stands right now, you have a legitimate case in small claims court. If you trash or undo the work you did, even if its reversible damage, you ruin your legal standing.

The important thing here is being paid, not being "right". Send them a certified letter stating, in very calm language, that they have 30 days to send complete payment by certified check, and if they fail to do that, you will take them to small claims court to secure an injunction against them. THEN if they don't pay, it gets very, very cool. You don't have to shut down their website, the court will do it for you. You can also get a sherrif to seize real property in lieu of payment. It usually doesn't get to that point though. They'll pay to stay out of court, because they know that legally you've got an ironclad case.

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