Section 683.020.  


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  • Except as otherwise provided by statute, upon the expiration of 10 years after the date of entry of a money judgment or a judgment for possession or sale of property:

    (a) The judgment may not be enforced.

    (b) All enforcement procedures pursuant to the judgment or to a writ or order issued pursuant to the judgment shall cease.

    (c) Any lien created by an enforcement procedure pursuant to the judgment is extinguished.

(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1364, Sec. 2. Operative July 1, 1983, by Sec. 3 of Ch. 1364.)