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Florida Statute 673.6021 - Full Text and Legal Analysis Florida Statute 673.6021 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research
Fla. Stat. § 673.6021 (2026) Copy Cite Official Site Syfertize CourtListener Amendments
673.6021 Payment.
(1) Subject to subsection (2), an instrument is paid to the extent payment is made by or on behalf of a party obliged to pay the instrument and to a person entitled to enforce the instrument. To the extent of the payment, the obligation of the party obliged to pay the instrument is discharged even though payment is made with knowledge of a claim to the instrument under s. 673.3061 by another person.
(2) The obligation of a party to pay the instrument is not discharged under subsection (1) if:
(a) A claim to the instrument under s. 673.3061 is enforceable against the party receiving payment and:
1. Payment is made with knowledge by the payor that payment is prohibited by injunction or similar process of a court of competent jurisdiction; or
2. In the case of an instrument other than a cashier’s check, teller’s check, or certified check, the party making payment accepted, from the person having a claim to the instrument, indemnity against loss resulting from refusal to pay the person entitled to enforce the instrument; or
(b) The person making payment knows that the instrument is a stolen instrument and pays a person it knows is in wrongful possession of the instrument.
History.s. 2, ch. 92-82.

Cases Citing F.S. 673.6021

Fla. Stat. § 673.6021 (2026) Copy Cite Official Site Syfertize CourtListener Amendments
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·Mario A. Rodriguez & Lendy Rodriguez v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. d/b/a Am.'s Servicing Co., 178 So. 3d 62 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2015 Fla. App. LEXIS 15239, 2015 WL 5948169

...4th DCA 2004) (“[A] mortgage is but an incident to the debt, the payment of which it secures.” (quoting Johns v. Gillian, 184 So. 140, 143-44 (Fla. 1938)). The person or entity entitled to enforce the note is the person or entity to whom payment on the note is due. § 673.6021(1), Fla....
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