Can my company’s judgment obtained against a debtor in my state be domesticated and become enforceable in Georgia?
There are two ways to domesticate a judgment. (Domestication means taking your judgment from one state and causing a like judgment to be enforceable in another state.) The first is by filing another suit on the judgment obtained in the foreign state and the second is a summary procedure known as the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgment Act. If your state has adopted this Act, the domestication is somewhat simplified. An exemplified copy of your judgment is filed in the county of the judgment/debtor’s residence or corporate office, with a certified copy of the notice to the judgment debtor. Generally, in a fairly short time, a judgment from that county will be issued.
