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Generally, to file a judgment lien, an abstract of judgment must be issued by the justice court. Some justice courts have a form available on their website to request an abstract of judgment.
Essentially, consensual liens don't adversely affect your credit as long as repayment terms are satisfied. Judgment and most statutory liens have a negative impact on your credit score and report, which affect your ability to obtain financing in the future.
Since judgments no longer appear on your credit report, they do notdirectly impact your credit score. However, financial choices and behaviors that lead to having a judgment on your report may indirectly affect your score. You may have outstanding balances, debts, collections and more.
Your credit score should go up quite a bit once your CCJ is removed from your credit record. However, it is hard to give you a clear estimate on how big your score improvement will be, as credit scores depend on many things. On average, most people see an increase of about 200-250 points.
In Texas, judgment liens take priority over subsequent liens, claims, encumbrances, and are subordinate to previous liens, claims, encumbrances, and conveyances found of record.
Living in a community property state also means that you and your spouse share liability on debts, even if only one spouse is legally responsible for that debt. Therefore, a creditor may be able to file a lien against a property that is jointly owned.
The most common ways you may find out that there are outstanding judgements against you in one of the following ways: letter in the mail or phone call from the collection attorneys; garnishee notice from your payroll department; freeze on your bank account; or. routine check of your credit report.