Filing and status of foreign judgments

  1. Law
  2. District of Columbia Code
  3. Judgments and Executions; Fees and Costs. [Enacted title]
  4. Enforcement of Judgments and Decrees
  5. Foreign Judgments
  6. Filing and status of foreign judgments

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A copy of any foreign judgment authenticated in accordance with the laws of the District may be filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court (“Clerk”). A foreign judgment filed with the Clerk shall have the same effect and be subject to the same procedures, defenses, or proceedings for reopening, vacating, or staying as a judgment of the Superior Court and may be enforced or satisfied in the same manner.

(Oct. 2, 1990, D.C. Law 8-173, § 2(b), 37 DCR 5005.)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 15-352.

Editor's Notes

Uniform Law: This section is based upon § 2 of the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act (1964).


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