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How to collect money back from contractor?

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I am property owner where my contractor walked away from the job introducing an un-approved change order. He has already collected after collecting 85% of final payment from 7 milestones but only completing 75-85% of each milestone. At the final he introduced a change order for the work done in 4/5th milestone and 2.5 months before whose payment got denied by us. When we told him to complete the paid milestone job first he left the work (threaten many times before to quit the project too). We paid 7 milestones 100% payment in good faith but we don't cheated and now we don't know how to proceed. If we sue him, we will end up spending more than he owes us. Small claim court is to less amount. Our project is stopped from last one month and we don't know what is best way.

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Feb 6, 2023
Could you please clarify what you mean by "Small claim court is to less amount"? 
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