Blog Posts in January, 2015

In a nutshell, Article 54 of the New York CPLR sets forth the procedure to simply register a judgment entered in another state. So long as the foreign court had jurisdiction to enter that judgment, it ...

A judgment lien is created after the entry of a judgment . If you've been sued and lost the case by default (you didn't formally respond) or you lost on the merits, you are the judgment debtor. Your ...

The Homestead Exemption law in New York, as detailed in § 5206, safeguards a person's primary residence from being used to satisfy a monetary judgment. The government's policy in implementing the ...