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WESTPORT RECOVERY CORPORATION v. SMITH

No. 4D01-4897.

830 So.2d 226 (2002)

WESTPORT RECOVERY CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Lynn SMITH a/k/a Lynn Fenster and Burton Horwitz, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

November 13, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert D. Friedman of Friedman & Greenberg, P.A., Plantation, for appellant.

Glen Rafkin and Cynthia J. Becker of Greenspoon, Marder, Hirschfeld, Rafkin, Ross & Berger, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellee Horwitz.

Gail Scopinich, North Miami Beach, for appellee Lynn Smith a/k/a Lynn Fenster.

KLEIN, J.

In order for a judgment to become a lien on real property a certified copy must be recorded and it must contain the address of the person having the lien. The issue in this case is whether, where there is an assignment of the judgment after it has been properly recorded, the assignee must rerecord. We conclude that the assignee need not do so.

Section 55.10(1), Florida Statutes (2001), provides in part:

A judgment, order, or decree becomes...

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