A Florida family law attorney can take care of the necessary paperwork to domesticate your foreign judgment. That includes everything from obtaining the certified copy of the order to completing and filing the affidavit and petition. If you are domesticating the judgment for purposes of later modifying it, an attorney can also help with this ...
InThe Petition to Domesticate a Foreign Order you must indicate all items which need to be modified and/or enforced. At this point, all documents can be filed with the clerk of the county where the party lives and the required filing fee paid. This fee will vary from county to county. If the party has moved to Florida from a foreign country ...
In order to begin the process of domesticating your judgment you will need to contact someone from our office to obtain our fee agreement and statement for the amounts required to begin. You probably have questions and we look forward to answering them. Please call 954-942-6500 and ask to speak with Thomas Oates or his legal assistant, Sandy.
In some states, a local attorney can also domesticate an out of state subpoena without the need to have it issued through court. Step Two: Serving the Subpoena. The Rules of Civil Procedure for the state in which the subpoena is to be served will need to be followed. Any applicable witness fee will need to be served with the subpoena.
The fees for the uncontested domestication of a foreign judgment are $450. If you are domesticating against more than one debtor there are additional fees depending on the county that the debtors reside in. Additional fees apply only after client approval if the domestication process is contested by the debtor.
In addition to the fees, there are costs involved in domesticating a judgment. These costs range from $42.00 to $500 per debtor depending on the county the debtor resides in. In most cases a cost advance is collected in the amount of $500 and any amounts not applied to actual costs is refunded.
DOMESTICATING A SUBPOENA IN STATES THAT RECOGNIZE THE UNIFORM INTERSTATE DEPOSITION AND DISCOVERY ACT (UIDDA) According to the UIDDA, domesticating a subpoena under the UIDDA requires litigants to “present a clerk of the court located in the state where discoverable materials are sought with a subpoena issued by a court in the trial state.
In general, a request will need to be made with the local court to have the subpoena issued by the court where the subpoena is to be served. This usually involves filling out an application, submitting a petition and sending any related documents to the court. In some cases, you will need to file a formal petition, and some states even require a practicing attorney to file the petition.
The Rules of Civil Procedure for the state in which the subpoena is to be served will need to be followed. Any applicable witness fee will need to be served with the subpoena.
It depends upon what you want to domesticate if you are domesticating to enforce a child support or alimony order from another for enforcement or modification you will need to follow Florida's domestication statutes, there are two that can be utilized for this purpose.
It is very difficult if not impossible to provide an estimate of the cost and legal fees to domesticate a foreign order without knowing the type of order, ie- child support, timesharing, Spousal support, Equitable distribution, Restraining order, etc.., the state or origin of the order, was the order obtained by default, the date the order was entered and the subject of the order.
You can file suit in Georgia to domesticate the Florida order and judgment here. You would need a certified copy of the prior Florida order to do that type of lawsuit. TYou can file a contempt motion after the Florida order is domesticated in Georgia. I agree with Mr. Hopkins.
I agree with the prior answers. You should consult with a local attorney about this matter.
You can do that, but a faster way would probably be to file a contempt case in Miami.
Constitution (Art. IV, §1) that the “judgment of a state court should have the same credit, validity and effect, in every other court of the United States, which it had in the state where it was pronounced.”
CPLR §3213 is also available when an action is based on “an instrument for the payment of money only, meaning an unconditional obligation to pay money at a specified time, or upon demand .