MUKA v. HORIZON FINANCIAL CORP.

No. 4D98-3098.

766 So.2d 239 (2000)

Betty O. MUKA, Assignee, Appellant, v. HORIZON FINANCIAL CORPORATION, and Michael D. Hackney, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

February 2, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Betty O. Muka, Ithaca, New York, pro se.

Gregory S. Grossman and Eduardo W. Gonzalez of Steel Hector & Davis, LLP, Miami, for appellee Michael D. Hackney.


FARMER, J.

The essential question in this appeal is unique to this state. The issue is whether a judgment creditor may register a foreign judgment in Florida that is no longer effective where rendered and has not been revived. We conclude that the judgment may not be registered here.

In 1985 a federal district court sitting in Texas rendered a money judgment in favor of Herbert Oakes and against Horizon Financial Corporation. Oakes has apparently since assigned...

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