Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 13A-9-47 (2026)
Defrauding Judgment Creditors.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
(a) A person commits the crime of defrauding judgment creditors if he:
(1) With fraudulent intent removes property subject to execution from a county to prevent it being levied upon by an execution; or
(2) Secretes, assigns, conveys or otherwise disposes of property with intent to defraud a judgment creditor.
(b) Defrauding judgment creditors is a Class B misdemeanor.
(Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §4135.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 2004–2004 · leading case: McCord v. Fastening Sys., Inc., 896 So. 2d 493 (Ala. 2004).
McCord v. Fastening Sys., Inc., 896 So. 2d 493 (Ala. 2004). “Frosio signed a sworn complaint against McCord in the Shelby District Court, charging McCord with defrauding a judgment creditor, a violation of § 13A-9-47, Ala.Code 1975. Pursuant to that complaint, a warrant was issued for McCord’s arrest.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.