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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 55
JUDGMENTS
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F.S. 55.507
55.507 Lien; when effective.A foreign judgment does not operate as a lien until 30 days after the mailing of notice by the clerk. When an action authorized in s. 55.509(1) is filed, it acts as an automatic stay of the effect of this section.
History.s. 5, ch. 84-5.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 55.507
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 55.507.



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

In H. MEAD, H. v., 374 B.R. 296 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 2007)

. . . . § 55.507 provides that a foreign judgment "does not operate as a lien until 30 days after the mailing . . .

A. MICHAEL, VALLEY TRUCKING CO. INC., 832 So. 2d 213 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2002)

. . . Section 55.507 provides that the foreign judgment becomes a lien thirty days after mailing of the notice . . . Nowhere in section 55.504, 55.505, or- 55.507 is there any limitation on the number of times a judgment . . .

JACKSON, v. V. ALEXANDER,, 706 So. 2d 364 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1998)

. . . . 2d DCA 1994) (“We conclude that the ‘automatic stay ... ’ provided in both sections 55.505(3) and 55.507 . . .

DOLLAR SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY, v. R. SOLTESIZ M. P. T. M. DOLLAR SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY, v. BARNETT BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA R. M., 636 So. 2d 63 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1994)

. . . In doing so, we interpret sections 55.10, 55.502, 55.503, 55.505, 55.507 and 55.509 (§§ 55.501-55.509 . . . Section 55.507 is intriguing, to say the least, in the choice of words used. . . . The title to section 55.507 is “Lien; when effective,” the term “effective” being the action word. . . . There is very little, if anything, to distinguish the apparent intended effect of section 55.507 from . . . While, as we have observed, section 55.507 confuses by referring alternately to the terms “effective” . . .

JONES, v. DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA, INC. a H. f s o Jr., 584 So. 2d 1057 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1991)

. . . Section 55.507 of the Act provides that the foreign judgment shall not operate as a lien until thirty . . .