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CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5166

Chapter 75, Laws of 1995

54th Legislature

1995 Regular Session

Extension of lien based on underlying judgment

EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/23/95

Passed by the Senate March 9, 1995

YEAS 47 NAYS 0

JOEL PRITCHARD

President of the Senate

Passed by the House April 6, 1995

YEAS 95 NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE

I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5166 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

House of Representatives

MARTY BROWN

Secretary

Approved April 18, 1995

FILED

April 18, 1995 - 1:04 p.m.

MIKE LOWRY

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5166

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Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session

State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senator Smith)

Read first time 01/30/95.

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) A lien based upon an underlying judgment continues in force for an additional ten-year period if the period of execution for the underlying judgment is extended under RCW 6.17.020.