                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FILING AND STATUS OF FOREIGN JUDGMENTS (§ 8.01-465.2)

A copy of any foreign judgment authenticated in accordance with the act of
Congress or the statutes of this Commonwealth may be filed in the office of the
clerk of any circuit court of any city or county of this Commonwealth upon
payment of the fee prescribed in subdivision A 17 of § 17.1-275. The clerk
shall treat the foreign judgment in the same manner as a judgment of the circuit
court of any city or county of this Commonwealth. A judgment so filed has the
same effect and is subject to the same procedures, defenses and proceedings for
reopening, vacating, or staying as a judgment of a circuit court of any city or
county of this Commonwealth and may be enforced or satisfied in like manner.

HISTORY: 1988, c. 539; 1990, c. 738.