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BARNETT BANK OF SOUTH FLORIDA, N.A., Appellant, v. AMERICAN MEDICAL EXPRESS CORP., Appellee.
    Nos. 95-1432, 95-870.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    April 3, 1996.
    Rehearing Denied May 1, 1996.
    Kris E. Penzell, Miami Beach, for appellant.
    Keith Mack Lewis Cohen & Lumpkin and Sara B. Clasby, Miami, for appellee.
    Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and GODERICH and GREEN, JJ.
   SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

We hold that the trial court properly vacated a garnishment judgment under Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.540(b)(5) because the underlying debt owed by the garnishee to the plaintiff-garnishor’s judgment debtor had been fully satisfied. See § 77.083, Fla.Stat. (1995); First Florida Bank, N.A v. R.D.P. of Naples, Inc., 573 So.2d 1025 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991); Carpenter v. Benson, 478 So.2d 353 (Fla. 5th DCA 1985), review denied, 488 So.2d 829 (Fla.1986); United Presidential Life Ins. Co. v. King, 361 So.2d 710 (Fla.1978). See generally Preferred Mut. Ins. Co. v. Davis, 629 So.2d 259 (Fla. 4th DCA 1993); Weitzman v. F.I.F.. Consultants, Inc., 468 So.2d 1085 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985), review denied, 479 So.2d 117 (Fla.1985). On the cross-appeal, we likewise find no error.

Affirmed. 
      
      . RULE 1.540 RELIEF FROM JUDGMENT, DECREES, OR ORDERS
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      (b) Mistakes; Inadvertence; Excusable Neglect; Newly Discovered Evidence; Fraud; etc. On motion and upon such terms as are just, the court may relieve a party or a party’s legal representative from a final judgment, decree, order, or proceeding for the following reasons:
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      (5) that the judgment or decree has been satisfied, released, or discharged, or a prior judgment or decree upon which it is based has been reversed or otherwise vacated, or it is no longer equitable that the judgment or decree should have prospective application.