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2016 Florida Statutes

Title VI CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 55 JUDGMENTS Entire Chapter
SECTION 509
Stay of enforcement of foreign judgment.
F.S. 55.509
55.509 Stay of enforcement of foreign judgment.—
(1) If, within 30 days after the date the foreign judgment is recorded, the judgment debtor files an action contesting the jurisdiction of the court which entered the foreign judgment or the validity of the foreign judgment and records a lis pendens directed toward the foreign judgment, the court shall stay enforcement of the foreign judgment and the judgment lien upon the filing of the action by the judgment debtor.
(2) If the judgment debtor shows the circuit or county court any ground upon which enforcement of a judgment of any circuit or county court of this state would be stayed, the court shall stay enforcement of the foreign judgment for an appropriate period, upon requiring the same security for satisfaction of the judgment which is required in this state.
History.—s. 6, ch. 84-5.