A foreign judgment must be domesticated in Texas for an abstract of judgment to be filed against the judgment debtor's property. This paper will not compare the procedure for enforcing foreign judgments before and after the amendments in the 1980s to the Uniform.You can't pay bills with a judgment: How to turn a court victory into a judgment lien, and use it to collect from your customer's property. A judgment won outside of Texas is referred to as a foreign judgment. If you have a foreign judgment, you must first domesticate it in order to enforce it. Filing a Judgment Lien. For example, Florida, Texas and Iowa have generous exemptions that favor debtors. A judgment becomes a lien on real property for a period of 10 years. S.D. Codified Laws § 15-16-7.