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O.C.G.A. § 9-12-136 (2019)

Actions to enforce judgments preserved

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Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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The judgment creditor retains the right to bring an action to enforce a judgment instead of proceeding under this article.

History

(Code 1981, § 9-12-136, enacted by Ga. L. 1986, p. 380, § 1.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Statute of limitation not a bar to filing foreign judgment. - Five-year statute of limitation of O.C.G.A. § 9-3-20 did not bar the filing and enforcement of a properly authenticated foreign judgment

under the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Law, O.C.G.A. § 9-12-130 et seq. Wright v. Trust Co. Bank, 219 Ga. App. 551, 466 S.E.2d 74 (1995).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1995–2026 · leading case: Okekpe v. Com. Funding Corp., 463 S.E.2d 23 (Ga. Ct. App. 1995).
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Okekpe v. Com. Funding Corp., 463 S.E.2d 23 (Ga. Ct. App. 1995). · cites it 15× “OCGA § 9-12-136. We should have noted that summary judgment is not available in proceedings under the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Law, because motions for summary judgment under OCGA § 9-11-56 are pre -judgment devices to resolve a civil dispute, prior to trial, by…”
Wright v. Trust Co. Bank, 466 S.E.2d 74 (Ga. Ct. App. 1995). · cites it 2× “See OCGA § 9-12-136. The uniform law provides a summary procedure for endowing a filed foreign judgment with the same effect as a judgment of the court in which it is filed.”
McGowan v. McGowan, 498 S.E.2d 574 (Ga. Ct. App. 1998). · cites it 4× “OCGA § 9-12-136. Parker v. Parker, 233 Ga.”
Williams v. Am. Credit Servs., Inc., 495 S.E.2d 121 (Ga. Ct. App. 1997). · cites it 2× “OCGA § 9-12-136. If this latter method is pursued, the party must file the action within five years from when the judgment was obtained or it is barred.”
Michelle Kwak v. Soon Yoon, No. A26D0572 (Ga. Ct. App. June 26, 2026). · cites it 2× “Accordingly, to obtain immediate review of the Gwinnett County State Court’s 1 Yoon did not follow the summary procedure for domesticating a foreign judgment under Georgia’s Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Law.”
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