Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 6-9-232 (2026)
Filing Judgment with Clerk of Circuit Court; Effect of Judgment.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
A copy of any foreign judgment authenticated in accordance with an act of Congress or the statutes of this state may be filed in the office of the clerk of any circuit court of this state. A clerk of any circuit court shall note the filing in a special docket set up for foreign judgments. A judgment so filed has the same effect and is subject to the same procedures, defenses and proceedings for reopening, vacating, or staying as a judgment of a circuit court of this state and may be enforced or satisfied in like manner; provided, however, that any proceeding that is brought to enforce support obligations of other jurisdictions in this state by the withholding of income derived in this state shall be brought in accordance with Chapter 3A, commencing with Section 30-3A-101, of Title 30.
(Acts 1986, Ex. Sess., No. 86-713, p. 127, §3; Acts 1997, No. 97-245, p. 398, §2.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 13
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1992–2025 · leading case: Pope v. Gordon (In Re Camp), 310 B.R. 634 (Bankr. N.D. Ala. 2004).
Pope v. Gordon (In Re Camp), 310 B.R. 634 (Bankr. N.D. Ala. 2004). “These documents were filed to meet what Ala.Code §§ 6-9-232, -233 (1993 & Supp.2003) specify as necessary for domestication and the subsequent enforcement of such judgments.”
Pope v. Gordon, 922 So. 2d 893 (Ala. 2005). “First, to domesticate a foreign judgment, a judgment creditor may file a copy of the foreign judgment in any circuit court in the State: "A copy of any foreign judgment authenticated in accordance with an act of Congress or the statutes of this state may be filed in the office…”
Favors v. Skinner's Wholesale Nursery, Inc., 860 So. 2d 359 (Ala. Civ. App. 2003). “” Ala.Code 1975, § 6-9-232. Under the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure, once a judgment has been entered for more than 30 days, the proper method for reopening a judgment of a circuit court is by filing a motion pursuant to Rule 60(b), Ala.”
E.L. v. V.L., 208 So. 3d 1094 (Ala. Civ. App. 2015). “followed the procedure established under the UEFJA by filing an authenticated copy of the Georgia judgment with the clerk of the family court, see Ala.Code 1975, § 6-9-232, and by filing an affidavit setting forth the information required by *1099 AkuCode 1975, § 6-9-233.”
Ex Parte Lanier Worldwide, Inc., 922 So. 2d 115 (Ala. Civ. App. 2005). “…defenses and proceedings for reopening, vacating, or staying as a judgment of a circuit court of this state." Ala.Code 1975, § 6-9-232.”
Lanier v. McMath Constr., Inc., 141 So. 3d 974 (Ala. 2013). “Code 1975,] §§ 6-9-232, 6-9-233, a presumption arises that the court rendering that judgment had jurisdiction to do so.”
Whitney Bank v. Lorant, 148 So. 3d 1077 (Ala. 2014). “1 Although § 6-9-232, Ala.Code 1975, a portion of the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act, provides that a foreign judgment domesticated in Alabama “is subject to the same procedures, defenses and proceedings for reopening, vacating, or staying as a judgment of a…”
Evans v. Anderson, 176 So. 3d 232 (Ala. Civ. App. 2015). ““A judgment so filed has the same effect and is subject to the same procedures, defenses and proceedings for reopening, vacating, or staying as a judgment of a circuit court of this state and may be enforced or satisfied in like manner_” § 6-9-232. “[0]nee the judgment is…”
Canon Fin. Servs., Inc. v. Nat'l Voting Rights Museum & Inst., Inc., 57 So. 3d 766 (Ala. Civ. App. 2010). “Code 1975,] §§ 6-9-232, 6-9-233, a presumption arises that the couri rendering that judgment had jurisdiction to do so.”
Levine v. Adamar of New Jersey, Inc., 612 So. 2d 1218 (Ala. Civ. App. 1992). “” Ala.Code 1975, § 6-9-232. There is no dispute that a valid, enforceable judgment was rendered against Levine in New Jersey in August 1989.”
Pope v. Gordon (In Re Camp), 336 B.R. 820 (Bankr. N.D. Ala. 2005). “A foreign, federal judgment can be domesticated under AUEFJA by filing and docketing the statutorily mandated authentication documents along with the affidavit dictated by the provisions of Ala.Code §§ 6-9-232, -233 (1993 & Supp.2003).”
Frank Thomas Shumate, Jr. v. Berry Contracting L.P., d/b/a Bay, Ltd. (Ala. 2025). “" § 6-9-232, Ala. Code 1975. "Therefore, once the judgment is domesticated, [the party resisting enforcement of the domesticated judgment] must resort to procedures applicable to any other judgment originally entered by a circuit court in order to set it aside.”
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