2010 Tennessee Code
Title 26 - Execution
Chapter 6 - Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
26-6-105 - Service of process Enforcement proceeding delayed.
26-6-105. Service of process Enforcement proceeding delayed.
(a) At the time of the filing of the foreign judgment, the judgment creditor or the judgment creditor's lawyer shall make and file with the clerk of the court an affidavit setting forth the name and last known post office address of the judgment debtor, and the judgment creditor.
(b) Promptly upon the filing of the foreign judgment and affidavit, the clerk of the court wherein the judgment is filed shall issue a summons to be delivered for service to any person authorized to serve process. This person shall serve the summons and return endorsed thereon shall be proof of the time and manner of service.
(c) No execution or other process for enforcement of a foreign judgment filed hereunder shall issue until thirty (30) days after the date a summons has been served upon the judgment debtor.
[Acts 1976, ch. 530, § 3; 1977, ch. 50, § 1; T.C.A., § 26-803.]
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