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 1                     AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 39

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill  39  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN ACT in relation to civil procedure."; and

 5    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 6    following:

 7        "Section 5. The Code of Civil  Procedure  is  amended  by
 8    changing Sections 2-1601 and 12-101 and adding Section 2-1602
 9    as follows:

10        (735 ILCS 5/2-1601) (from Ch. 110, par. 2-1601)
11        Sec.  2-1601.  Scire  facias  abolished. Any relief which
12    heretofore might have been obtained by scire  facias  may  be
13    had  by  employing  a petition filed in the case in which the
14    original judgment was entered, and notice shall be  given  in
15    accordance with rules in accordance with Section 2-1602.
16    (Source: P.A. 82-280.)

17        (735 ILCS 5/2-1602 new)
18        Sec. 2-1602.  Revival of judgment.
19        (a)  A  judgment may be revived in the seventh year after
20    its entry, or in the seventh year after its last revival,  or
 
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 1    at any other time thereafter within 20 years after its entry.
 2        (b)  A  petition  to  revive a judgment shall be filed in
 3    the original case in which  the  judgment  was  entered.  The
 4    petition  shall  include  a statement as to the original date
 5    and amount of the judgment,  court  costs  expended,  accrued
 6    interest, and credits to the judgment, if any.
 7        (c)  Service  of  notice  of  the  petition  to  revive a
 8    judgment shall be made in accordance with Supreme Court  Rule
 9    106.
10        (d)  An  order  reviving  a  judgment  shall  be  for the
11    original amount of the judgment. The  plaintiff  may  recover
12    interest  and  court  costs  from  the  date  of the original
13    judgment. Credits to the judgment shall be reflected  by  the
14    plaintiff in supplemental proceedings or execution.
15        (e)  If  a judgment debtor has filed for protection under
16    the United States Bankruptcy Code and failed to  successfully
17    adjudicate  and  remove  a lien filed by a judgment creditor,
18    then the judgment may be revived only as to the  property  to
19    which  a  lien  attached  before the filing of the bankruptcy
20    action.
21        (f)  A judgment may be  revived  as  to  fewer  than  all
22    judgment  debtors,  and  such  order  for revival of judgment
23    order shall be final, appealable, and enforceable.

24        (735 ILCS 5/12-101) (from Ch. 110, par. 12-101)
25        Sec. 12-101.  Lien of  judgment.   With  respect  to  the
26    creation  of  liens  on  real  estate  by judgments, all real
27    estate in the State of Illinois is divided into 2 classes.
28        The first class consists of all real property, the  title
29    to which is registered under "An Act concerning land titles",
30    approved May 1, 1897, as amended.
31        The  second  class  consists  of  all  real  property not
32    registered under "An Act concerning land titles".
33        As to real estate in class one, a judgment is a  lien  on
 
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 1    the  real estate of the person against whom it is entered for
 2    the same period as in class two, when Section 85 of  "An  Act
 3    concerning land titles", has been complied with.
 4        As  to  real estate included within class two, a judgment
 5    is a lien on the real estate of the person against whom it is
 6    entered in any county in this State, including the county  in
 7    which  it  is  entered,  only  from  the  time  a transcript,
 8    certified copy or memorandum of the judgment is filed in  the
 9    office of the recorder in the county in which the real estate
10    is  located.  A judgment resulting from the entry of an order
11    requiring child support payments shall be  a  lien  upon  the
12    real estate of the person obligated to make the child support
13    payments,  but shall not be enforceable in any county of this
14    State until a transcript, certified copy,  or  memorandum  of
15    the lien is filed in the office of the recorder in the county
16    in  which  the  real  estate  is located.  Any lien hereunder
17    arising out of an order for support shall be a lien  only  as
18    to  and  from  the time that an installment or payment is due
19    under the terms of the order.  Further, the order for support
20    shall not be a lien on real estate to the extent of  payments
21    made  as evidenced by the records of the Clerk of the Circuit
22    Court or State agency  receiving  payments  pursuant  to  the
23    order.  In the event payments made pursuant to that order are
24    not paid to the Clerk of the Circuit Court or a State agency,
25    then each lien imposed by this Section may be released in the
26    following manner:
27             (a)  A  Notice  of  Filing  and an affidavit stating
28        that all installments of child  support  required  to  be
29        paid  pursuant to the order under which the lien or liens
30        were imposed have been  paid  shall  be  filed  with  the
31        office of recorder in each county in which each such lien
32        appears of record, together with proof of service of such
33        notice and affidavit upon the recipient of such payments.
34             (b)  Service of such affidavit shall be by any means
 
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 1        authorized  under Sections 2-203 and 2-208 of the Code of
 2        Civil Procedure  or  under  Supreme  Court  Rules  11  or
 3        105(b).
 4             (c)  The  Notice  of Filing shall set forth the name
 5        and address of  the  judgment  debtor  and  the  judgment
 6        creditor,  the court file number of the order giving rise
 7        to the judgment and, in capital  letters,  the  following
 8        statement:
 9        YOU  ARE  HEREBY  NOTIFIED  THAT  ON  (insert  date)  THE
10    ATTACHED AFFIDAVIT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF
11    ....  COUNTY,  ILLINOIS, WHOSE ADDRESS IS ........, ILLINOIS.
12    IF, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THE DATE OF THIS NOTICE,  YOU  FAIL  TO
13    FILE  AN  AFFIDAVIT  OBJECTING  TO  THE RELEASE OF THE STATED
14    JUDGMENT LIEN OR LIENS, IN THE ABOVE  OFFICE,  SUCH  JUDGMENT
15    LIEN  WILL  BE DEEMED TO BE RELEASED AND NO LONGER SUBJECT TO
16    FORECLOSURE.   THIS  RELEASE  OF  LIEN  WILL  NOT  ACT  AS  A
17    SATISFACTION OF SUCH JUDGMENT.
18             (d)  If no affidavit objecting to the release of the
19        lien or liens is filed  within  28  days  of  the  Notice
20        described  in  paragraph (c) of this Section such lien or
21        liens shall be  deemed  to  be  released  and  no  longer
22        subject to foreclosure.
23        A judgment is not a lien on real estate for longer than 7
24    years  from  the  time  it  is entered or revived, unless the
25    judgment is revived within 7 years after its  entry  or  last
26    revival  and  a  memorandum  of  judgment is filed before the
27    expiration of the prior memorandum of judgment.
28        When a judgment is revived it  is  a  lien  on  the  real
29    estate  of  the  person  against  whom  it was entered in any
30    county in this State from the time  a  transcript,  certified
31    copy  or  memorandum  of the order of revival is filed in the
32    office of the recorder in the county in which the real estate
33    is located.
34        A foreign judgment registered pursuant to Sections 12-601
 
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 1    through 12-618 of this Act is a lien upon the real estate  of
 2    the person against whom it was entered only from the time (1)
 3    a certified copy of the verified petition for registration of
 4    the  foreign  judgment or (2) a transcript, certified copy or
 5    memorandum of the final judgment of the court of  this  State
 6    entered  on  that  foreign judgment is filed in the office of
 7    the recorder in the  county  in  which  the  real  estate  is
 8    located.  However,  no  such  judgment shall be a lien on any
 9    real estate registered under "An Act concerning land titles",
10    as amended, until Section 85 of that Act  has  been  complied
11    with.
12        The   release   of  any  transcript,  certified  copy  or
13    memorandum of judgment or order of  revival  which  has  been
14    recorded  shall  be filed by the person receiving the release
15    in the office of the recorder in which such judgment or order
16    has been recorded.
17        Such release shall contain in legible letters a statement
18    as follows:
19        FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE OWNER, THIS  RELEASE  SHALL  BE
20         FILED  WITH  THE  RECORDER  OR  THE  REGISTRAR OF TITLES
21            IN WHOSE OFFICE THE LIEN WAS FILED.
22        The term "memorandum" as used in  this  Section  means  a
23    memorandum  or  copy  of  the judgment signed by a judge or a
24    copy attested by the clerk  of  the  court  entering  it  and
25    showing  the  court in which entered, date, amount, number of
26    the case in which it was entered, name of the party in  whose
27    favor  and  name  and last known address of the party against
28    whom entered.  If the address of the party against  whom  the
29    judgment  was entered is not known, the memorandum or copy of
30    judgment shall so state.
31        The term "memorandum" as used in this Section also  means
32    a  memorandum  or  copy  of a child support order signed by a
33    judge or a copy attested by the clerk of the  court  entering
34    it or a copy attested by the administrative body entering it.
 
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 1        This  Section  shall  not  be  construed  as  showing  an
 2    intention  of  the legislature to create a new classification
 3    of  real  estate,  but  shall  be  construed  as  showing  an
 4    intention of the legislature  to  continue  a  classification
 5    already existing.
 6    (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97; 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

 7        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 8    becoming law.".

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