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                         SENATE BILL 5166

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Senator Smith

Read first time 01/13/95.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

Regarding the renewal of judgments and the extension of judgment liens.

    AN ACT Relating to judgments; and amending RCW 4.56.210.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 4.56.210 and 1989 c 360 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, after the expiration of ten years from the date of the entry of any judgment heretofore or hereafter rendered in this state, it shall cease to be a lien or charge against the estate or person of the judgment debtor.  No suit, action or other proceeding shall ever be had on any judgment rendered in this state by which the lien shall be extended or continued in force for any greater or longer period than ten years.

    (2) An underlying judgment or judgment lien entered after the effective date of this act for accrued child support shall continue in force for ten years after the eighteenth birthday of the youngest child named in the order for whom support is ordered.  All judgments entered after the effective date of this act shall contain the birth date of the youngest child for whom support is ordered.

(3) The lien on an underlying judgment or decree whose period during which an execution may issue has been extended under RCW 6.17.020 shall continue in force for an additional ten-year period.

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