2006 Code of Virginia § 8.01-465.2 - Filing and status of foreign judgments

8.01-465.2. Filing and status of foreign judgments.

A copy of any foreign judgment authenticated in accordance with the act ofCongress or the statutes of this Commonwealth may be filed in the office ofthe clerk of any circuit court of any city or county of this Commonwealthupon payment of the fee prescribed in subdivision A 17 of 17.1-275. Theclerk shall treat the foreign judgment in the same manner as a judgment ofthe circuit court of any city or county of this Commonwealth. A judgment sofiled has the same effect and is subject to the same procedures, defenses andproceedings for reopening, vacating, or staying as a judgment of a circuitcourt of any city or county of this Commonwealth and may be enforced orsatisfied in like manner.

(1988, c. 539; 1990, c. 738.)