As collection lawyers in Houston, Texas, we are sometimes asked to collect judgment taken in other states. The United States Constitution requires that each state give full faith and credit (must be final, valid and subsisting) to the judicial proceedings of every other state. U.S. CONST. Art. IV § 1. This means that if you have a judgment in your home state and you want to enforce it against a judgment debtor in another state, you can. Each state has laws governing the procedure for enforcing judgments of another state in their own state. Most states have ratified a version of the Uniform Enforcement of Judgment Act (“UEFJA”).
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