Statute of Limitations in Florida
Summary What Is the Statute of Limitations? The statute of limitations gives a time limit for how long after an event you can be sued. In Florida, a statute of limitations also provides a complete…
Judgment collection refers to the process where a creditor seeks to enforce a court-ordered judgment for debt repayment by legally obtaining assets or funds from a debtor. After a court rules in favor of the creditor, the judgment must be executed, as the court does not automatically collect the debt. This process may involve various methods such as garnishing the debtor’s wages, seizing bank accounts, placing liens on property, or auctioning off assets.
Summary What Is the Statute of Limitations? The statute of limitations gives a time limit for how long after an event you can be sued. In Florida, a statute of limitations also provides a complete…
Florida Statute 222.11 prohibits a creditor from garnishing the earnings of a debtor who qualifies as head of household. Florida residents working in another state are unable to enforce this garnishment exemption in foreign state…
Piercing the corporate veil refers to the creditor tactic where a creditor with a judgment against a business pierces the corporation and transfers the judgment to the individual owners. Many business owners are worried that their…
A judgment lasts 20 years in Florida. Judgments can be renewed after 20 years, although this is difficult and rarely done. After 20 years has expired, the judgment can no longer be enforced. The length…
A joint bank account can be garnished for a judgment even if the judgment is only against one of the owners. In Florida, bank account garnishments apply to all of your accounts, whether you own…
If a judgment creditor obtains a writ of garnishment against a bank all of a judgment debtor’s accounts at the bank will be frozen until a court orders the money to be turned over to…
Florida has adopted the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act (UEFJA), which allows for the recognition and enforcement of judgments from other states as if they were judgments from a Florida court. This act simplifies…
Our client is the beneficiary of a life insurance policy on her husband’s life. The husband owns the policy. The client has a large civil judgment. The husband died, and the wife filed a claim…
One of my clients had a judgment issued against him in 2009 in a Georgia civil case. The client retired and moved to Florida in 2016. Upon discovering my client changed residence to Florida move…
I have a client who lives in Florida where he works as a w-2 employee of a company located outside of Florida. The employer has no offices or retail locations in Florida. A creditor sued…