Judgment Paid Within 30 Days In Fairfax
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Depending on the defendant's financial situation, it can be very difficult to collect a judgment.
In Virginia, a judgment is good for 20 years. During that 20 year period, the judgment can be renewed for another 20 years. This means a judgment can stay on record and be good for up to 40 years.
No execution shall be issued and no action brought on a judgment dated on or after July 1, 2021, including a judgment in favor of the Commonwealth and a judgment rendered in another state or country, after 10 years from the date of such judgment or domestication of such judgment, unless the period is extended as ...
VA Code Ann. § 8.01-251(B). A judgment expires ten years from the date of entry.
Judgments have expiration dates. If they are not timely renewed, they expire. In CA that is 10 years. However, when a judgment lien has been recorded against your property, it has no expiration date.
The docketing may be done by copying the wording of the judgment order verbatim or by abstracting the information therefrom into a book or into fixed fields of an electronic data storage system.
