Senate Bill sb0178

    Florida Senate - 2001                                   SB 178

    By Senator Brown-Waite





    10-217-01                                               See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to duration of real property

  3         liens; amending s. 55.10, F.S.; revising the

  4         period of duration of certain liens; providing

  5         an effective date.

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  7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  9         Section 1.  Subsection (1) of section 55.10, Florida

10  Statutes, is amended to read:

11         55.10  Judgments, orders, and decrees; lien of all,

12  generally; extension of liens; transfer of liens to other

13  security.--

14         (1)  A judgment, order, or decree becomes a lien on

15  real estate in any county when a certified copy of it is

16  recorded in the official records or judgment lien record of

17  the county, whichever is maintained at the time of

18  recordation, and it shall be a lien for a period of 10 7 years

19  from the date of the recording provided that the judgment,

20  order, or decree contains the address of the person who has a

21  lien as a result of such judgment, order, or decree or a

22  separate affidavit is recorded simultaneously with the

23  judgment, order, or decree stating the address of the person

24  who has a lien as a result of such judgment, order, or decree.

25  A judgment, order, or decree does not become a lien on real

26  estate unless the address of the person who has a lien as a

27  result of such judgment, order, or decree is contained in the

28  judgment, order, or decree or an affidavit with such address

29  is simultaneously recorded with the judgment, order, or

30  decree.

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    Florida Senate - 2001                                   SB 178
    10-217-01                                               See HB




  1         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

  2  law.

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  5                       LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY

  6    Increases from 7 to 10 years the initial period of
      duration of liens on real property recorded pursuant to
  7    judgment, order, or decree.

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