Florida Statute 55.607 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 55
JUDGMENTS

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55.607 Stay in case of appeal.—If the defendant satisfies the court that an appeal is pending, or that he or she intends to appeal, and that he or she has obtained a stay of judgment from the foreign court, the court may stay the proceedings until the appeal has been determined or until the expiration of a period of time sufficient to enable the defendant to prosecute the appeal.

History.—s. 7, ch. 94-239; s. 1361, ch. 95-147.

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Tettamanti v. Opcion Sociedad Anonima, 67 So. 3d 356 (Fla. 3d DCA 2011).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2011 Fla. App. LEXIS 11371, 2011 WL 2848625

...by simultaneous translation, differing legal systems, participation by lawyers for each party and each country, and the uncertain appellate remedies, are daunting. .A stay in Argentina pending an appeal of the existing judgment there is addressed by section 55.607 of the Recognition Act; that provision does not address a stay based on other considerations, such as a judicially-directed prior recourse to designated collateral before other execution is attempted....

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Tettamanti v. Opcion Sociedad Anonima, 201 So. 3d 3 (Fla. 3d DCA 2009).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2009 Fla. App. LEXIS 4181

...By motion for review filed in this court, the judgment ■creditor requests that the stay be vacated. The judgment creditor’s position,is well taken. , Florida has adopted the Uniform Out-of-country Foreign Money-Judgment Recognition Act. §§ 55.601-55.607, Fla....

...Le Credit Lyonnais, S.A., 804 So.2d 1226, 1233 (Fla. 2001). Under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.310, the trial court had jurisdiction to consider the appellee-judgment debtors’ motion for stay. Fla. R.App. P. 9.310(a). The trial court granted a stay based on section 55.607, Florida Statutes. That section provides: , 55.607 Stay in case of appeal.—If the defendant satisfies the court that an ap *4 peal is pending, or that he or she intends to appeal, and that he or she has obtained a stay of judgment from the foreign court, the court may stay the proceedings un...

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Banco Amazonas, S.A. v. Phoenix Ltd., 748 So. 2d 365 (Fla. 3d DCA 2000).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2000 Fla. App. LEXIS 174, 2000 WL 27549

PER CURIAM. Affirmed. § 55.607, Fla....