Can Personal Credit Judgement Encumber Real Property in Florida?

Can Personal Credit Judgement Encumber Real Property in Florida?

David SichermanPro Member
Vendor · Lake Worth, FL · Member since 2014 · 713 posts · 149 votes

In the state of Florida, I was always told unless specifically shown a legal in a judgement for a property, personal judgements like credit card, car loans, gym membership judgements cannot encumber real estate.  I know in other states when I buy property I run into having to pay credit card judgements all the time, but it's never happened to me in the state of Florida.

Any Florida attorney's can confirm that a non homestead property not in bankruptcy would be encumbered by Credit card judgements or other non specific real property liens like HOA, condoassn, muni fines etc...

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  • David SichermanPro Member
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    Vendor · Lake Worth, FL · Member since 2014 · 713 posts · 149 votes
    8y

    This is what I found so far, since no one replied:

    Under these circumstance they can encumber:

    Property is NOT homestead (they don’t live there)

    Creditor has recorded the certified lien in the same county

    Recorded judgement was in the past 10 years (can be re-recorded  to extend to 20 years.)

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