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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 56
FINAL PROCESS
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56.10 Executions against corporate judgment debtors; receivership.If an execution cannot be satisfied in whole or in part for lack of property of the corporate judgment debtor subject to levy and sale, on motion of the judgment creditor the circuit court in chancery within whose circuit such corporate judgment debtor is or has been doing business, or in which any of its effects are found, may sequestrate the property, things in action, goods and chattels of the corporate judgment debtor for the purpose of enforcing the judgment, and may appoint a receiver for the corporate judgment debtor. A receiver so appointed is subject to the rules prescribed by law for receivers of the property of other judgment debtors. His or her power shall extend throughout the state.
History.s. 1, ch. 1870, 1872; RS 1211; GS 1641; RGS 2845; CGL 4532; s. 11, ch. 67-254; s. 300, ch. 95-147; s. 7, ch. 2016-33.
Note.Former s. 55.24.

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Cases Citing Statute 56.10

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Massey v. Cong. Life Ins., 116 F.3d 1414 (11th Cir. 1997).

Cited 42 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 38 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 84, 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 17062

...o satisfy the notice and hearing dictates of Rule 56."); Milburn v. United States, 734 F.2d 762, 765 (11th Cir.1984) ("This circuit strictly enforces the 10-day notice requirement for all litigants."); 11 James Wm. Moore, Moore's Federal Practice § 56.10[2][b] (3d ed....
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Dept. of M. Veh., Etc v. Mercedes-Benz, Etc., 408 So. 2d 627 (Fla. 2d DCA 1981).

Cited 29 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal

contract was entered into.[1] The New Jersey Code, section 56:10-6, provided in pertinent part as follows: The
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McClendon v. Key, 209 So. 2d 273 (Fla. 4th DCA 1968).

Cited 7 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal

...Under such circumstances summary judgment should be denied and leave to amend should be granted. City of Pinellas Park v. Cross-State Utilities Co., Fla.App. 1965, 176 So.2d 384. See Rossiter v. Vogel, 2 Cir.1943, 134 F.2d 908, 912. 6 Moore's Federal Practice, 2d, § 56.10 (1965)....
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Mercedes-Benz of Na v. Dept. of Mv, 455 So. 2d 404 (Fla. 2d DCA 1984).

Cited 6 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal

to compel a franchise transfer pursuant to section 56:10-6, New Jersey Statutes (1971). In Count II,
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Brandon Chrysler Plymouth Jeep Eagle, Inc. v. Chrysler Corp., 898 F. Supp. 858 (M.D. Fla. 1995).

Cited 1 times | Published | District Court, M.D. Florida | 1995 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13358, 1995 WL 544743

N.C.Gen.Stat. § 20-305.1 (1994); NJ.Stat.Ann. § 56:10-15(a) (West 1994r-95); Nev.Rev.Stat.Ann. § 482
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Merco Grp. at Akoya, Inc. v. Gen. Comput. Servs., Inc. (Fla. 3d DCA 2026).

Cited 1 times | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...Appellant, Merco Group at Akoya, Inc., the corporate judgment debtor in proceedings supplementary involving an unsatisfied final judgment rendered following a nearly decade-old default, appeals from an order appointing a post-judgment receiver under section 56.10, Florida Statutes (2025), at the request of appellee, General Computer Services, Inc., the judgment creditor. Casting aside the fact that there is no transcript of the pivotal hearing, the cases cited in furtherance of relief are inapposite because the language of section 56.10, Florida Statutes, plainly authorizes the trial court to appoint a receiver for the corporate judgment debtor for the purpose of collecting the unsatisfied judgment. See § 56.10, Fla....
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Warshall v. Price, 617 So. 2d 751 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1993).

Cited 1 times | Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1993 Fla. App. LEXIS 4158, 1993 WL 113421

property to the satisfaction of a judgment. See also, § 56.10, Fla.Stat. (1987). Courts have long recognized
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In re Florida Bd. of Bar Examiners, 397 So. 2d 590 (Fla. 1980).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1980 Fla. LEXIS 4464

which the Board has not previously considered. Section 56 10. For each examination administration entered
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Veronica Ross-williams, Etc. v. Linda Leali, Receiver (Fla. 3d DCA 2022).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...The judgment was assigned to Casa Financial Holdings, LLC (“Casa Financial”) in August 2021. Casa Financial obtained a Judgment Lien Certificate and had the Clerk of the Circuit Court issue a writ of execution. Brookview did not pay the judgment, so on September 2, 2021, Casa Financial, pursuant to sections 56.10 and 56.29 of the Florida Statutes, filed a post-judgment motion seeking to invoke proceedings supplementary and 2 have a receiver appointed for Brookview....
...and commenced proceedings supplementary. On September 13, 2021, the trial court entered a post-judgment receivership order, appointing a receiver for Brookview. The order specifically acknowledges that the receivership is authorized by sections 56.10 and 56.29....
...has had no further involvement with this case at either the trial court level or in this Court’s appellate proceedings. 4 The trial court initially appointed a receiver pursuant to the authority of section 56.10, 3 in a post-judgment proceeding supplementary initiated pursuant to section 56.29....
...ceiver for the corporate judgment debtor. A receiver so appointed is subject to the rules prescribed by law for receivers of the property of other judgment debtors. His or her power shall extend throughout the state. § 56.10, Fla....
...receiver and to establish the receiver’s duties, see Granada Lakes Villas Condo. Ass’n v. Metro-Dade Invs. Co., 125 So. 3d 756, 758 (Fla. 2013); Puma Enters. Corp., 566 So. 2d at 1344, nothing in chapter 56 authorizes a receivership created pursuant to section 56.10 to continue beyond the satisfaction of the outstanding judgment that triggers availability of proceedings supplementary; and nothing in either chapter 56 or chapter 718 authorizes a section 56.10 receiver, after satisfaction of a judgment against a condominium association, to take over plenary operations of the condominium association. To be clear, pursuant to the initial receivership order, the receiver owed fiduciary...

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