Chapter 56 — Chapter 56
28 sections in this chapter.
Fla. Stat. § 56.0101 Definitions
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As used in this chapter, the term:(1) “Claimant” means any person other than the judgment debtor who claims any property levied on.(2) “Corporate judgment debtor” means a judgment debtor other than an individual, an estate, or a trust that is not a business trust.(3) “Judgment cr…
Fla. Stat. § 56.011 Executions; capias ad satisfaciendum abolished
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A capias ad satisfaciendum may not be issued upon a judgment, nor may the body of any person be subject to arrest or confinement for the payment of money, except for fines imposed by lawful authority.
Fla. Stat. § 56.021 Executions; issuance and return, alias, etc
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When issued, an execution is valid and effective during the life of the judgment, order, or decree on which it is issued. When fully paid, the officer executing it shall make his or her return and file it in the court which issued the execution. If the execution is lost or destro…
Fla. Stat. § 56.031 Executions; form
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All executions shall be dated on the day on which they are issued, shall be directed to all and singular the sheriffs of the state and shall be in full force throughout the state.
Fla. Stat. § 56.041 Executions; collection and return
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(1) All executions shall be returnable when satisfied, and the officers to whom they are delivered shall collect the amounts thereof as soon as possible and shall furnish the judgment debtor with a satisfaction of judgment. All receipts shall be endorsed on the execution.(2) All …
Fla. Stat. § 56.051 Executions; collection when against principal and sureties
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Where there are executions against principals and sureties, or an execution against a principal and surety or sureties, it shall be the duty of the sheriff or other officer to make the money out of the property of the principal, unless the principal be insolvent or has no propert…
Fla. Stat. § 56.061 Property subject to execution
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Lands and tenements, goods and chattels, equities of redemption in real and personal property, and stock in corporations, shall be subject to levy and sale under execution. Likewise, the interest in personal property in possession of a vendee under a retained title contract or co…
Fla. Stat. § 56.071 Executions on equities of redemption; discovery of value
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On motion made by the person causing a levy to be made on an equity of redemption, the court from which the execution issued shall order the mortgagor, mortgagee, and all other persons interested in the mortgaged property levied on to appear and be examined about the amount remai…
Fla. Stat. § 56.09 Executions against corporate judgment debtors; generally
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On any judgment against a corporate judgment debtor, the judgment creditor may have an execution levied on the current money as well as on the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of the corporate judgment debtor.
Fla. Stat. § 56.10 Executions against corporate judgment debtors; receivership
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If an execution cannot be satisfied in whole or in part for lack of property of the corporate judgment debtor subject to levy and sale, on motion of the judgment creditor the circuit court in chancery within whose circuit such corporate judgment debtor is or has been doing busine…
Fla. Stat. § 56.12 Executions; levy, forthcoming bond
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If a judgment debtor wants to retake possession of any property levied on, the judgment debtor may do so by executing a bond with surety to be approved by the officer in favor of the judgment creditor in a sum double the value of the property retaken as fixed by the officer holdi…
Fla. Stat. § 56.13 Executions; forfeiture of forthcoming bond
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Should the execution remain unpaid, and the parties to the bond fail to produce such property by the day specified, said bond shall be returned to the court from which the execution issued, as forfeited; and the clerk, or the court if it has no clerk, shall enter up judgment fort…
Fla. Stat. § 56.14 Executions upon forthcoming bond; levy
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No bonds, as hereinbefore provided, shall be allowed to be given for property seized upon the execution on the judgment upon the forfeited bond.
Fla. Stat. § 56.15 Executions; stay of illegal writs
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If any execution issues illegally, the judgment debtor may obtain a stay by making and delivering an affidavit to the officer having the execution, stating the illegality and whether any part of the execution is due, with a bond with surety payable to the judgment creditor in dou…
Fla. Stat. § 56.16 Executions; claims of third parties to property levied on
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If any person, including a person to whom a Notice to Appear has been issued pursuant to s. 56.29(2), other than the judgment debtor claims any property levied on, he or she may obtain possession of the property by filing with the officer having the execution an affidavit by the …
Fla. Stat. § 56.17 Executions; duty of officer on claim of third person being filed
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On receipt of the bond and affidavit the officer shall deliver the property to the claimant and desist from any further proceedings under the execution until the right of property is tried. The officer shall return the execution to the court from which it issued with the affidavi…
Fla. Stat. § 56.18 Executions; trial of claims of third persons
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As soon as possible after the return, or after service of a Notice to Appear pursuant to s. 56.29(2), a jury, if not waived, shall be impaneled to try the right of property. If the verdict is in favor of the judgment creditor and it appears that the claim brought pursuant to s. 5…
Fla. Stat. § 56.19 Judgments upon claims of third persons
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Upon the verdict of the jury, the court shall enter judgment deciding the right of property, and if the verdict is for the judgment creditor, awarding a recovery by the judgment creditor from the claimant and the claimant’s sureties, of the value (as fixed by the officer, or as f…
Fla. Stat. § 56.20 Executions on judgments against third person claimants
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If the execution issued on the judgment is not paid, it shall be satisfied in the usual manner unless on demand of the officer holding it, the principal and surety in the claim bond deliver the property released under the claim bond to the officer and pay him or her the damages a…
Fla. Stat. § 56.21 Execution sales; notice
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Notice of all sales under execution shall be given by advertisement once each week for 4 successive weeks in a newspaper published in the county in which the sale is to take place. The time of such notice may be shortened in the discretion of the court from which the execution is…
Fla. Stat. § 56.22 Execution sales
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(1) All sales of property under legal process shall take place at the time, date, and place advertised in the notice of the sheriff’s sale on any day of the week except Saturday and Sunday and shall continue from day to day until such property is disposed of.(2) Property not effe…
Fla. Stat. § 56.25 Execution sale; bill of sale or deed
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When a sale is made under an execution, the officer making the sale shall execute and deliver to the purchaser a deed or bill of sale to the property on payment of the purchase money and the cost of the deed or bill of sale.
Fla. Stat. § 56.26 Executions; mandamus to force levy and sale
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When an officer holds an unsatisfied execution and refuses to levy on property liable thereunder and on which it is his or her duty to levy or having levied, refuses to advertise and sell the property levied on, the judgment creditor is entitled to an alternative writ of mandamus…
Fla. Stat. § 56.27 Executions; payment of money collected
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(1) All money received under executions shall be paid, in the order prescribed, to the following: the sheriff, for costs; the levying creditor in the amount of $500 as liquidated expenses; and the priority lienholder under s. 55.10(1) and (2), s. 55.202, s. 55.204(3), or s. 55.20…
Fla. Stat. § 56.275 Disposition of unclaimed money collected
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All unclaimed proceeds from sheriff’s sales or money collected under execution shall be disposed of as provided in s. 116.21.
Fla. Stat. § 56.28 Executions; failure of officer to pay over moneys collected
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If any officer collecting money under execution fails or refuses to pay it over within 30 days after it has been received by him or her, or within 10 days after demand by the levying creditor or the levying creditor’s attorney of record made in writing and delivered during regula…
Fla. Stat. § 56.29 Proceedings supplementary
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(1) When any judgment creditor holds an unsatisfied judgment or judgment lien obtained under chapter 55, the judgment creditor may file a motion and an affidavit so stating, identifying, if applicable, the issuing court, the case number, and the unsatisfied amount of the judgment…
Fla. Stat. § 56.30 Discovery in proceedings supplementary
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(1) In addition to any other discovery permitted under the rules of civil procedure, on the judgment creditor’s motion the court shall require the judgment debtor to appear before it or a general or special magistrate at a time and place specified by the order in the county of th…