Best Lawyer to Domesticate Your Foreign Judgments in Florida

We are lawyers with experience domesticating, recording, and enforcing foreign judgments in Florida. Contact us on (786) 539-4935 if you would like to discuss your situation.

What is a Foreign Judgment?

A foreign judgment is a judgment of another U.S. state or a judgment obtained in another country.  To make it effective in Florida you have to domesticate the foreign judgment in Florida.

When you domesticate a foreign judgment you ask the Florida Courts to recognize and enforce the judgment as if it were a judgment of a Florida Court.

Once the judgment is properly recorded, the clerk files, records, and indexes it in the same manner as a Florida judgment, and the judgment then has the same effect as a Florida circuit or county court judgment, subject to the same procedural rules and defenses.

How can you Domesticate Your Foreign Judgment in Florida?

Foreign Judgments can be domesticated in Florida pursuant to Florida Statutes Chapter 55, 61, and 88 depending on where the judgment came from and the type of Judgment.

The mechanism used to domesticate a foreign judgment in Florida depends on where it was issued and its subject matter.  Support orders, child custody determinations, and money judgments rely on different statutory provisions and requirements for domestication and enforcement. 

Call us to discuss if you can domesticate your foreign judgment in Florida on (786) 539-4935.