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One way to collect upon a judgment in New Mexico is to obtain a judgment lien A judgment lien gives the creditor the right to be paid a certain amount of money from proceeds from the sale of the debtor's property. The judgment creditor will need to identify where the defendant (now the judgment debtor) has property.
Enforcing a judgment against a defendant who does not pay If a defendant does not pay a judgment, the plaintiff can try to enforce the judgment by filing another lawsuit. For example, if the defendant owns several cars, the plaintiff can sue to have the car transferred to the plaintiff.
fourteen yearsOnce entered, a judgment is enforceable in New Mexico for fourteen years and cannot be renewed.
Obtaining a Writ of Execution Another option of how to enforce a judgment is to obtain a “writ of execution.” Thirty days after judgment, you may obtain a such a writ to attempt to seize the debtor's non-exempt property to satisfy your judgment.
You Could Serve Jail Time Over Your Debt If you don't show up, the court can “find you in civil contempt.” The court interprets your absence as disobeying orders, and you have to pay up or go to jail. If you choose prison, you'll stay until you pay the bond — which will probably be the amount you owe.
four yearsTexas and Federal Law The statute of limitations on debt in Texas is four years. This section of the law, introduced in 2019, states that a payment on the debt (or any other activity) does not restart the clock on the statute of limitations.
The statute of limitations for debt collection in New Mexico ranges from four to 10 years, depending on the type of debt. If a debt collector is trying to get money from you for unpaid credit card balances, the statute of limitations runs out after four years, for example.
Creditors have until the later of four (4) months the first publication of the Notice of Appointment or 60 days after mailed notice to submit a claim against the estate.
In New Mexico, the state's civil statute of limitations is three years for personal injury or defamation and four years for injury to personal property and most other civil claims. New Mexico's criminal statute of limitations ranges from three to six years for felonies and one to two years for misdemeanors.
A Texas judgment is valid for ten years from the date it is signed by the judge. After the expiration of ten years the judgment is dormant for two years. During that two year period of dormancy the judgment cannot be enforced.
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If granted, the default judgment will be vacated and a new trial will be scheduled on the matter. In a county or district court in Texas, the deadline for a request for a new trial is 30 days from entry of the default judgment.
A judgment lien is one way to ensure that the person who won the judgment (the creditor) gets what he or she is owed. A judgment lien gives the creditor the right to be paid a certain amount of money from proceeds from the sale of the debtor's property. So how do judgment liens work in New Mexico?
A judgment lien in New Mexico will remain attached to the debtor's property (even if the property changes hands) for 14 years. Keep in mind: In New Mexico, a creditor's ability to collect under a judgment lien will be affected by a number of factors -- including a fixed amount of value that won't be touchable if the property is ...
In a civil court case, after a judge or jury hands down a verdict -- or after a court-approved settlement -- a judgment is entered by the court. As part of a typical judgment, the court orders the payment of money from one person to another. But the person who owes the money (the debtor) doesn't always pay up.
To properly attach the lien, the creditor files the judgment with the county clerk in any New Mexico county where the debtor owns property now or may own property in the future.
In New Mexico, a judgment lien can be attached to real estate only (like a house, condominium, or similar property interest).
The Court retains jurisdiction of this suit for the purpose of any order, direction, or modification of the decree, or any supplementary decree, that may at any time be deemed proper in relation to the subject matter in controversy.
286 (1904); United States v. Michigan, 190 U.S. 379 (1903); and specifically in a case involving a compact, Virginia v. West Virginia, 246 U.S. 565 (1918). In proper original actions, the Eleventh Amendment is no barrier, for by its terms, it applies only to suits by citizens against a State. Maryland v. Louisiana, 451 U.S. 725, 745 , n. 21 (1981); United States v. Mississippi, 380 U.S. 128, 140 (1965); South Dakota v. North Carolina, supra. That there may be difficulties in enforcing judgments against [482 U.S. 124, 131] States counsels caution but does not undermine our authority to enter judgments against defendant States in cases over which the Court has undoubted jurisdiction, authority that is attested to by the fact that almost invariably the "States against which judgments were rendered, conformably to their duty under the Constitution, voluntarily respected and gave effect to the same." Virginia v. West Virginia, supra, at 592. In any event, that concern is insubstantial here, for if money damages were to be awarded, it would only be on the basis that if the sum awarded is not forthcoming in a timely manner, a judgment for repayment in water would be entered.
He issued a report containing his findings and conclusion that for the years 1950-1983, New Mexico should have delivered 340,100 acre-feet more water at the state line than Texas had received over those years. The Master recommended that in addition to performing its ongoing obligation under the Compact, New Mexico be ordered to make up the accumulated shortfall by delivering [482 U.S. 124, 128] 34,010 acre-feet of water each year for 10 years, with a penalty in kind, i. e., "water interest," for any bad-faith failure to deliver these additional amounts.
As we understand the Master, he did not pursue the matter of monetary relief because he thought it foreclosed by the Compact, not because he thought it inadequate, unfair, or impractical. As we have said, the issue was raised in the hearings, but the record does not permit a confident judgment as to whether a remedy in money, rather than water, would be equitable or feasible. To order making up the shortfalls by delivering more water has all the earmarks of specific performance, an equitable remedy that requires some attention to the relative benefits and burdens that the parties may enjoy or suffer as compared with a legal remedy in damages. " [S]pecific performance is never demandable as a matter of absolute right, but as one which rests entirely in judicial discretion, to be exercised, it is true, according to the settled principles of equity, but not arbitrarily and capriciously, and always with reference to the facts of the particular case." Haffner v. Dobrinski, 215 U.S. 446, 450 (1910). Specific performance will not be compelled "if under all the circumstances it would be inequitable to do so." Wesley v. Eells, 177 U.S. 370, 376 (1900).
New Mexico, however, argues that it has no obligation to deliver water that it, in good faith, believed it had no obligation to refrain from using. It is true that Texas and New Mexico have been at odds on the interpretation of the Compact and that their respective views have not been without substantial foundation. Both Special Masters recognized that New Mexico acted in good faith, and as Judge Breitenstein said in his 1982 report, New Mexico's "obligation is still uncertain because the definition of the 1947 condition must be translated into water quantities to provide a numerical standard." Report of Special Master 18. The basic meaning of the 1947 condition was not defined until 1979 in the course of this litigation; and a workable methodology for translating New Mexico's obligation into quantities of water was not achieved until 1984, also in this litigation. 6 But good-faith differences about the scope of contractual undertakings do not relieve either party from performance. A court should provide a remedy if the parties intended to make a contract and the contract's terms provide a sufficiently certain basis for determining both that a breach has in fact occurred and the nature of the remedy called for. Restatement (Second) of Contracts 33 (2), and Comment b (1981). There is often a retroactive impact when courts resolve contract disputes about the scope of a promisor's undertaking; parties must perform today or pay damages for what a court decides they promised to do yesterday and did not. In our view, New Mexico cannot escape liability for what has been adjudicated to be past failures to perform its duties under the Compact.
New Mexico submits that there is no statutory authority for this Court to allow postjudgment interest in any form and that we are therefore without [482 U.S. 124, 133] power to do so in this original action. It relies on the statement in Pierce v. United States, 255 U.S. 398, 406 (1921), that postjudgment interest may not be awarded absent statutory authority. But we are not bound by this rule in exercising our original jurisdiction. In Virginia v. West Virginia, 238 U.S. 202, 242 (1915), the Court awarded interest on its judgment, an action consistent with express statutory authority for other federal courts to award postjudgment interest.
Charlotte Uram argued the cause for defendant. With her on the briefs were Paul G. Bardacke, former Attorney General of New Mexico, Hal Stratton, Attorney General, and Peter Thomas White and Vickie L. Gabin, Special Assistant Attorneys General. [482 U.S. 124, 126]
Actions to domesticate a foreign judgment are governed by this section, and as such these actions must be brought within the applicable period of limitation for foreign judgments, 14 years. Accordingly, a 1989 judgment on the domestication issue converted the foreign judgment into a New Mexico judgment from which date the applicable state statutes of limitations commenced running. Plaintiff's 1992 action for a charging order based on the 1989 judgment satisfied the three alternative state statutes of limitations (37-1-4, 39-1-20, 37-1-2 NMSA 1978) and does not force a decision on the "correct" statute. Galef v. Buena Vista Dairy, 1994-NMCA-068, 117 N.M. 701, 875 P.2d 1132.
When a judgment can no longer be enforced by reason of this section, the judgment lien, subject perhaps to displacement as to priority of intervening liens or encumbrances, becomes unenforceable with it. Pugh v. Heating & Plumbing Fin. Corp., 1945-NMSC-031, 49 N.M. 234, 161 P.2d 714.
Application to pre-1983 judgment. — This section allows a judgment creditor to bring an action to revive a judgment for a period of 14 years after its entry. Pursuant to 39-1-20 NMSA 1978, execution may issue at any time within seven years after the rendition or revival of the judgment. This includes judgments entered prior to the 1983 amendment of this section, which lengthened the original seven-year revival period. Fischoff v. Tometich, 1991-NMCA-144, 113 N.M. 271, 824 P.2d 1073.
— When a judgment by a federal bankruptcy court is domesticated in a district court in New Mexico, that court has jurisdiction to address and resolve issues concerning the judgment, including revival thereof; however, the district court lacks jurisdiction if the judgment has not been properly domesticated pursuant to the Foreign Judgment Act, Section 39-4A-1 NMSA 1978 et. seq. Walter E. Heller W., Inc. v. Ditto, 1998-NMCA-068, 125 N.M. 226, 959 P.2d 560, cert. denied, 125 N.M. 147, 958 P.2d 105.
Child support judgment. — A Kansas judgment for periodic child support payments is a judgment in installments, each of which becomes vested when due and unpaid, and the statute of limitations begins to run on each installment at the moment it vests. Slade v. Slade, 1970-NMSC-064, 81 N.M. 462, 468 P.2d 627.
— A judgment of allowance of a claim against an estate is not a complete and effective judgment until the order on the administrator to pay is obtained, and a procedure to obtain such an order is not an action on such a judgment under this statute. Gutierrez v.
Actions founded upon any judgment of any court of record of any other state or territory of the United States, or of the federal courts, may be brought within the applicable period of limitation within that jurisdiction, not to exceed fourteen years from the date of the judgment, and not afterward.
Some states have not adopted the Uniform Enforcement of Judgment Act, including California, Indiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Vermont. In such states, it is necessary to actually file a new lawsuit in the state in order to obtain or enforce a judgment in that state.
The creditor usually has the right to renew the judgment, but must take affirmative steps to do that, normally before the judgment expires. In Virginia, a judgment can be enforced for only 20 years. [10] .
Creditors often want to know whether a debtor has any assets before the creditor begins legal proceedings to obtain a judgment. This is a logical question, because there is no point in wasting legal fees if a judgment will be uncollectible. A smart creditor will be aware of specific assets and the general financial strength of a debtor before doing business and lending money. A creditor can also perform various types of asset searches without the cooperation of the debtor. A creditor cannot compel a debtor to produce asset information, however, until the creditor obtains a judgment. The judgment is the first legal recognition from the court that the debtor does owe money, providing the creditor the aid of the court for post-judgment asset and liability discovery.
In Maryland, a judgment is valid for 12 years. [11] If the creditor has not been able to collect the judgment within that time, the creditor must renew the judgment to continue collection efforts. [12] The judgment creditor must file a Notice of Renewal with the Court while the judgment is still valid. Otherwise, the judgment has expired and will no longer be honored.
Congratulations! You have a judgment. This means you “won” your case, either through default judgment or a contested trial, and the defendant can no longer contest that it owes you the money. It also means that you can get the “aide of the court” in enforcing the judgment.
If you win the lawsuit, this caption will normally dictate the names of the defendants on the judgment. If your judgment is in a name different from the property owner, the judgment will not attach until you take an additional step to change the judgment name.
The first was a promissory note. This was your “contract” or unsecured promise to pay. This paper said that you would repay the bank in monthly payments over a period of years. If you fail to keep this agreement, the bank could file suit “on the contract” and obtain a judgment.
The federal New Mexico District Court also issues decisions that may affect New Mexico residents. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals holds the authority to review decisions by the New Mexico District Court. Sometimes the U.S. Supreme Court may review a case that has been appealed from the Tenth Circuit or from the New Mexico Supreme Court.
Constitution, which is the supreme law of the U.S., federal laws include statutes that are periodically codified in the U.S. Code. Federal laws also include decisions by courts that interpret federal laws.
Article XIX provides the processes for amending the Constitution. An amendment proposed in the New Mexico State Legislature or by an independent commission generally will appear on a ballot if a majority of each chamber of the legislature votes in its favor.
Comprised of 24 articles, the New Mexico Constitution took effect in 1912 when New Mexico was admitted as a state. It does not permit statewide initiatives, unlike the constitutions of many Western states, but it allows for popular referendums. Article XIX provides the processes for amending the Constitution.
The state of New Mexico also has its own state laws. New Mexico state laws include the New Mexico Constitution, laws passed by the New Mexico legislature and periodically codified in the New Mexico Statutes, and decisions by courts that interpret New Mexico laws. Comprised of 24 articles, the New Mexico Constitution took effect in 1912 ...