Judgment Against Property For Florida In Georgia
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The sister-state judgment allows a creditor to recover debts from a debtor who has relocated to California using a court order or judgment that was issued in another state.
File a petition for the domestication of the foreign judgment in the circuit court of the Florida county where the debtor lives or has property; Serve the petition and a copy of the foreign judgment on the judgment debtor; Attend a hearing on the petition, if the court schedules one; and.
In order to enforce or modify an out of state order in a foreign state, if one party has relocated to a foreign state with the children, you must register the order in the new state. This is usually done with the county clerk in the county where you are now residing.
A complicating factor is the location of the debtor or the debtor's assets. If a judgment is entered against the debtor in one state, but the debtor resides in another state or the debtor's assets are located in another state, then the creditor must transfer the judgment to that state.
First, you must obtain a certified copy of the judgment from the court that awarded the judgment to you. Then, you must record the certified copy in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of any Florida county, which is usually where the debtor resides or where the debtor's assets are located.
On motion and upon such terms as are just, the court may relieve a party or a party's legal representative from a final judgment, decree, order, or proceeding for the following reasons: (1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect; (2) newly discovered evidence which by due diligence could not have been ...
First, the judgment creditor must domesticate the foreign judgment in Georgia. Second, the judgment can be collected by such common post-judgment activities as a garnishment of a bank account or a wage, post-judgment interrogatories, post-judgment deposition, or foreclosure of the judgment lien.
