Judgment Lien Forms Foreclose In Michigan
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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.
Judgment liens may simply be filed and recorded by an attorney. There is no personal confrontation with the defendant and no personal property is seized. Service of the judgment lien on the judgment debtor is by certified mail if the judgment is less than $25,000.
Collect Before the Judgment Expires A judgment from a Small Claims case expires six years after it is issued. Most other judgments in Michigan expire 10 years after they are issued. You can renew a judgment before it expires by filing a motion to renew a judgment.
(1) Unless subsection (2) or (3) applies, a judgment lien expires 5 years after the date it is recorded. (2) Unless subsection (3) applies, if a judgment lien is rerecorded under subsection (4), the judgment lien expires 5 years after the date it is rerecorded.
2809. (1) Unless subsection (2) or (3) applies, a judgment lien expires 5 years after the date it is recorded. (2) Unless subsection (3) applies, if a judgment lien is rerecorded under subsection (4), the judgment lien expires 5 years after the date it is rerecorded.
In all cases, the recorded Claim of Lien has a one-year life span; meaning that a lawsuit to enforce or foreclose the lien must be filed within one year after the date the Claim of Lien is recorded. If no lawsuit is filed within the one year, the lien claim dies.
600.6051. A Judgment lien attaches to all property owned by the judgment debtor in the county where it is recorded. It attaches at the time it is recorded with the register of deeds, except for after-acquired property, when it attaches at the time it is acquired by the judgment debtor. 600.2803.
First, if no lawsuit is filed within a year, the homeowner can obtain a certificate from the circuit court clerk confirming that no lawsuit has been filed and the lien is removed by recording the clerk certificate with the register of deeds. The second way is through a bonding-off process.
