CopyCited 18 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 26 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 769, 2001 Fla. LEXIS 2274, 2001 WL 1472623
...Additionally, the Fifth District found that the twenty-year limitations period in section
95.11(1), Florida Statutes (1995), should apply to foreign judgments. [3] After examining the application of the UMJRA in other jurisdictions and comparing the UFMJRA to the UEFJA, the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act, section
55.501, et seq., Florida Statutes (1995), the district court said this approach allows for adequate time for registration and enforcement....
...be treated as a judgment of this state. Additionally, section
55.502(4) states specifically, "Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to alter, modify, or extend the limitation period applicable for the enforcement of foreign judgments." §§
55.501-55.509, Fla....
CopyCited 12 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 1989 WL 43301
...Scott Jay Feder of Floyd, Pearson, Richman, Greer, Weil, Zack & Brumbaugh, P.A., Miami, for appellee. WARNER, Judge. This non-final appeal questions the jurisdiction of the trial court over the person of appellant in a proceeding to enforce a foreign judgment domesticated pursuant to section 55.501, Florida Statutes (Supp. 1984). In April, 1987 appellee filed a California judgment in Florida pursuant to section 55.501, Florida Statutes (Supp....
...jurisdictional issue and subsequent sanction imposed in the contempt order are not rendered moot by the reversal of the California action. We agree that the issues are not moot. Foreign judgments are entitled to domestication in Florida pursuant to section 55.501, Florida Statutes (Supp....
...An appeal does not affect finality, but a party may stay enforcement of a judgment by posting a supersedeas bond in the case of a money judgment. Fla.R.App.P. 9.310. Therefore, we conclude that the California judgment was final when rendered and that it was entitled to enforcement pursuant to section 55.501, Florida Statutes (Supp....
CopyCited 9 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 1999 WL 729066
...Florida's UFMJRA lacks this provision. Because of the lack of decisions under the UFMJRA, we turn to a consideration of cases brought under a parallel uniform statute, the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act (UEFJA), which was adopted in Florida in 1984 as section 55.501, seq....
CopyCited 9 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2002 Fla. App. LEXIS 15566, 2002 WL 31396460
...ion shall be maintained in this state. Although not applicable to this case, the Uniform Foreign Money Judgment Recognition Act, sections
55.601-55.607, has a *319 similar provision, [2] and the Florida Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act, sections
55.501-55.509, also provide that a foreign judgment sought to be enforced must be entitled to full faith and credit in this state and no provision in the statute shall extend the statutes of limitation period applicable for the enforcement of a foreign judgment....
...in a judgment in this state, or where it has been "revived" in that state under circumstances not recognized in Florida. In other words, will Florida give greater reciprocity to a foreign judgment than a Florida judgment? Neither section
55.601 nor section
55.501 present that problem because when registered, under those acts, the foreign judgment becomes a Florida judgment and is then subject to the Florida statute of limitations for Florida judgments....
...[4] NOTES [1] This act is also known as "Uniform Out of Country Foreign Money Judgment Recognition Act." See §
55.601, Fla. Stat. (2001). [2] We do not consider the possible applicability of the Florida Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act, sections
55.501-55.509, Florida Statutes (2001), because NYS did not bring its action under this Act....
CopyCited 8 times | Published | District Court, M.D. Florida | 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108208, 2011 WL 4363919
...roceeding to enforce the Polk County circuit court judgment, a state judgment creditor enjoys options. By an independent action or by proceeding under the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act, adopted in most states and adopted in Florida as Section 55.501-607, Florida Statutes, a judgment creditor may domesticate a Florida judgment in another state, secure the issuance of an execution in the other state, and initiate a supplemental proceeding in the other state to enforce the judgment, newly formalized in the other state....
CopyCited 8 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 1993 WL 95551
...ppears to be the least utilized portion of the Act. At least in cases in which the foreign support order is recent and contains a specific monetary award, its procedures tend to overlap with the procedures for enforcement of a foreign judgment under section 55.501, Florida Statutes (1991)....
CopyCited 7 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 1993 WL 20433
...June 28, 1990, [the money judgment] both of which shall survive this judgment. The former wife recorded the foreign judgment in Palm Beach County, Florida, on December 28, 1990, pursuant to the Florida Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act, sections 55.501, et seq., Florida Statutes (1989)....
...gn judgment. Argument regarding the merit, or lack thereof, in the former husband's challenge to the validity of the foreign judgment is premature, as the trial court has not yet ruled on that issue. The Florida Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act, section 55.501, et seq., Florida Statutes (1989), provides a method by which a foreign judgment may be domesticated....
CopyCited 6 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 12 Fla. L. Weekly 861
...rred in Nevada. Appellant sued appellees in Nevada and obtained a valid judgment there, complying with all of the necessary requirements as to notice and otherwise. When appellant then recorded the Nevada final judgment in Florida in accordance with Section 55.501, et seq., Florida Statutes (1985), appellees sued to invalidate the foreign judgment against them and to have the Florida Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act contained in Section 55.501, et seq....
CopyCited 6 times | Published | United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. Florida. | 13 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. B 134, 2000 Bankr. LEXIS 165
...§ 523(a)(4) (1998), a debt arising from a final judgment entered in the Circuit Court in and for Kenton County, Kentucky (the "Kentucky court"), on December *420 7, 1983. The Plaintiff domesticated this foreign judgment on February 4, 1997, by recording the judgment in Highlands County, Florida, pursuant to Florida Statutes § 55.501, et seq., known as the "Florida Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act." The judgment established Defendant's liability to Plaintiff for embezzlement, and the Plaintiff argues in the instant motion that the Kentucky court's ruling is binding upon this Court under principles of res judicata....
...Rather, a foreign judgment so filed stands in the same shoes as a judgment of the court in which it is filed. (citations omitted)). This case raises an issue of first impression in Florida. [2] The Florida Legislature *422 adopted the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act in 1984 as Florida Statutes § 55.501, et seq....
CopyCited 5 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 1997 WL 361577
...ON JUDICIARY BILL ANALYSIS & ECONOMIC IMPACT STATEMENT, HB 51 UNIF. FOREIGN MONEY JUDGMENTS, at 2 (Nov.1993). Section
55.604 does, however, set forth a procedure for enforcement of an out-of-country judgment similar to that for enforcement of a sister state's judgment, see section
55.501-507, Florida Statutes (1995), and requires that the judgment be filed with the clerk of court and then recorded in the public records....
CopyCited 4 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2008 WL 4568684
...dgment under the Florida Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act. The issue presented is thus whether the circuit court in Florida properly domesticated the California judgment under the procedures of the Florida Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act. §§ 55.501-.509, Fla....
...never sought confirmation of this from the bankruptcy court. II. PROCEEDINGS IN FLORIDA TO DOMESTICATE THE FOREIGN JUDGMENT In November 2005, the Reeds took the steps necessary to record this foreign judgment in Sarasota County, Florida, pursuant to section 55.501....
...667, 675-76 (Bankr.D.Colo.2007). We do not foreclose the possibility that a foreign judgment clearly and facially entered in violation of bankruptcy discharge injunction may not be entitled to full faith and credit in this state, thus preventing its enforcement under sections 55.501-509....
CopyCited 4 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 1999 Fla. App. LEXIS 8292, 1999 WL 414220
...vorce decree. In the New York decree Lynne Skowronski-Thompson (Thompson), Lorenzo's former wife, was awarded child support in the amount of $384.62 per week, plus health insurance and medical expenses. After Thompson recorded the decree pursuant to section 55.501, Florida Statutes (1995), a money judgment for child support arrears was entered....
...As a result of the URESA proceeding, Lorenzo's obligation under the New York decree was reduced to $7,384 per year ($142 per week). The URESA action also established that Lorenzo was approximately $19,000 in arrears. In 1996 Thompson recorded the New York divorce decree in Florida under section 55.501, and sought to have it reduced to a money judgment for the amount of arrears owed....
...of the New York divorce decree was error because Thompson should have been required to pursue her remedies under URESA. We disagree. The trial court permitted Thompson to proceed under Florida's Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act, sections 55.501-55.509, Florida Statutes (1995)....
...4th DCA 1993) (New York divorce decree domesticated in Florida under the provisions of section
55.503). And this court implicitly acknowledged in Kain v. State,
645 So.2d 578 (Fla. 2d DCA 1994), that an action to enforce child support could be brought under URESA or sections
55.501-509....
...5th DCA 1983) (Under URESA the respondent court is free to enter a support award higher or lower than the original amount; however, this determination does not modify the initiating state's order). Since Thompson recorded the New York divorce decree pursuant to sections 55.501-55.509, Florida Statutes (1995), and the trial court correctly determined the amount of arrears, Lorenzo's motion to dismiss and motion to vacate final money judgment were properly denied....
...provisions of the Uniform Foreign Money Judgments Recognition Act, sections
55.601-55.607, Florida Statutes (1995). This argument is without merit because Thompson did not proceed under this act; the New York decree was recorded pursuant to sections
55.501, et seq....
CopyCited 4 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 13 Fla. L. Weekly 258, 1988 Fla. App. LEXIS 205, 1988 WL 3769
...ks after the trial court in this case granted interpleader, consolidated *1053 the parties, and denied N & C's motion to dismiss. Therefore, we find that the buyers' had the right to establish their Alabama judgment as a Florida Judgment pursuant to section 55.501 et seq., Florida Statutes (Florida's Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act)....
CopyCited 3 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 1989 WL 29033
...Jonassen, Indian Rocks Beach, for appellants. Patrick T. Maguire, Clearwater, for appellee. ALTENBERND, Judge. The Hinchees appeal a final summary judgment which domesticated a California judgment against them pursuant to the "Florida Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act." § 55.501, et seq., Fla....
...nd costs. Later in 1986, the Hinchees sold their interest in the ranch. More than a year later, Golden Oak Bank recorded the foreign judgment pursuant to section
55.505(1), Florida Statutes (1985). The "Florida Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act," section
55.501, Florida Statutes (1985), provides a uniform statutory method to record foreign judgments....
CopyCited 1 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 1987 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9191
...federal statutes, whereas an execution sale is by mere praecipe of the judgment creditor. United States v. Branch Coal Corp.,
390 F.2d 7 (3d Cir.1968). [3] Florida has since enacted the Florida Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act, Florida Statutes Section
55.501-55.509, which places a dual responsibility on the Clerk of Court and on the judgment creditor to give notice of the recordation of the judgment to the debtor....
CopyPublished | United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Florida | 8 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. 2d (West) 186, 1989 Bankr. LEXIS 450
judgment by complying with the Foreign Judgments Acts §
55.501 —
55.509 Fla.Stat. (1987). IDC’s judgment was
CopyPublished | District Court of Appeal of Florida
and enforce a foreign judgment pursuant to section
55.501, Florida law only permits the judgment debtor
CopyPublished | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal
against the father was properly domesticated. See §
55.501-.503, Fla. Stat. (2015); Barr v. Barr, 724 So
