Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 6-9-236 (2026)
Right of Action to Enforce Judgment Unimpaired.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
The right of a judgment creditor to bring an action to enforce his judgment instead of proceeding under this article remains unimpaired.
(Acts 1986, Ex. Sess., No. 86-713, p. 127, §7.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1989–2004 · leading case: Imperial Crown Mktg. Corp. v. Wright, 560 So. 2d 1025 (Ala. 1989).
Imperial Crown Mktg. Corp. v. Wright, 560 So. 2d 1025 (Ala. 1989). “The judgment creditor can bring an action to enforce his judgment instead of proceeding under the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act, Ala.Code 1975, § 6-9-236; this is what Imperial Crown did when it filed the present action.”
Pope v. Gordon (In Re Camp), 310 B.R. 634 (Bankr. N.D. Ala. 2004). “Ala.Code § 6-9-236 (1993). 5 . At least one supreme court, that of Texas, in a fact pattern similar to that in this case— where the Texas version of the UEFJA was the filing and docketing procedure domesticating a foreign judgment — has held as nullities the trial and judgment…”
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