2009 Iowa Code
Title 15 - Judicial Branch and Judicial Procedures
Subtitle 3 - Civil Procedure
CHAPTER 624 - TRIAL AND JUDGMENT
624.24 - WHEN JUDGMENT LIEN ATTACHES.

        624.24  WHEN JUDGMENT LIEN ATTACHES.
         When the real estate lies in the county wherein the judgment of
      the district court of this state or of the circuit or district courts
      of the United States was entered in the judgment docket and lien
      index kept by the clerk of the court having jurisdiction, the lien
      shall attach from the date of such entry of judgment, but if in
      another it will not attach until an attested copy of the judgment is
      filed in the office of the clerk of the district court of the county
      in which the real estate lies except for foreign judgments pursuant
      to chapters 626A and 626B and tribal judgments as defined in section
      626D.2, which shall not attach until an appeal is concluded, the time
      for the appeal has expired, or the stay of execution has expired or
      was vacated pursuant to section 626A.4, 626B.3, 626B.5, or 626D.7.
      In such cases, the lien shall attach on the date the clerk of court
      files an attested copy of the judgment in the office of the clerk of
      the district court of the county in which the real estate lies in any
      of the following circumstances:
         1.  The foreign or tribal judgment has not been appealed and the
      time for filing an appeal has expired.
         2.  The foreign or tribal judgment has been appealed and the
      judgment has been affirmed on appeal and is not subject to further
      appeal.
         3.  An appeal from a foreign or tribal judgment has been filed and
      a stay from such judgment has not been granted by the district court
      to the appealing party.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C51, § 2486, 2487; R60, § 4106, 4107; C73, § 2883, 2884; C97, §
      3802; S13, § 3802; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 11603; C46, 50, 54, 58,
      62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 624.24] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         85 Acts, ch 100, §9; 86 Acts, ch 1014, § 2; 2007 Acts, ch 192, §1
         Referred to in § 626A.3, 626B.6, 626D.3