Legal Insights

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Colorado’s Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act (“UEFJA” or “Act”) allows a creditor to enforce a foreign judgment without filing a new suit. The Act defines “foreign judgment” to mean “any judgment, decree, or order of a court of the United States or of any other court which is entitled to full faith and credit in this state.”

As creditors often discover, collection efforts on a final state judgment are compounded when a judgment debtor moves to another state. As we know, the United States Constitution through the principals of comity, requires that full faith and credit be given to judgments rendered in a sister state, although no uniform procedure for registering and enforcing such sister state judgments was envisioned.

Unfortunately, most Colorado litigants do not realize that winning a lawsuit, whether by default or trial, in many instances is only half the battle. A judgment is no more than a piece of paper and quite commonly requires post-judgment enforcement to render the litigant entitled to the benefits set forth in the judgment.