Title: In Re: Amendments To Florida Small Claims Rules

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

Supreme Court of Florida 
 
 
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No. SC07-179 
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IN RE:  AMENDMENTS TO FLORIDA SMALL CLAIMS RULES. 
 
[July 5, 2007] 
 
PER CURIAM. 
 
The Florida Bar’s Small Claims Rules Committee (Committee) has filed its 
regular-cycle report of proposed rules in accordance with Florida Rule of Judicial 
Administration 2.140(b).  We have jurisdiction.  See art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const. 
 
The Committee proposes the creation of new form 7.347 (Satisfaction of 
Judgment).  The form is identical to form 1.981 in the Florida Rules of Civil 
Procedure and will put parties on notice that a judgment has been satisfied.  Prior to 
submission to the Court, the proposed form was published in The Florida Bar 
News, and interested parties were invited to comment.1  One comment was 
received by the Committee, but no changes were made to the proposal.  After 
                                          
 
 
1.  The Committee originally proposed two other amendments to the Florida 
Small Claims Rules.  The Committee withdrew those amendments prior to the 
submission of its report. 
submission to the Court, the form was again published for comment, but no 
comments were received. 
 
Upon consideration, we adopt proposed form 7.347 and amend the Florida 
Small Claims Rules as reflected in the appendix to this opinion.  The amendments 
shall become effective January 1, 2008, at 12:01 a.m. 
 
It is so ordered. 
LEWIS, C.J., and WELLS, ANSTEAD, PARIENTE, QUINCE, CANTERO, and 
BELL, JJ., concur. 
 
THE FILING OF A MOTION FOR REHEARING SHALL NOT ALTER THE 
EFFECTIVE DATE OF THESE AMENDMENTS. 
 
Original Proceeding – The Florida Small Claims Rules 
 
Honorable Pauline M. Drayton, Chair, the Small Claims Rules Committee, Circuit 
Judge, Fourth Judicial Circuit, Jacksonville, Florida, John F. Harkness, Jr., 
Executive Director, and Madelon Horwich, Bar Staff Liaison, The Florida Bar, 
Tallahassee, Florida, 
 
 
for Petitioner 
 
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APPENDIX 
FORM 7.347. 
SATISFACTION OF JUDGMENT 
 
SATISFACTION OF JUDGMENT 
 
 
The undersigned, the owner and holder of that certain final judgment 
rendered in the above-captioned civil action, dated .........., recorded in .................... 
County, Official Records Book ..... beginning at Page ....., does hereby 
acknowledge that all sums due under it have been fully paid and that final 
judgment is hereby satisfied and is canceled and satisfied of record. 
 
 
DATED on ..................... 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Judgment Owner and Holder (or their attorney) 
 
Committee Note 
 
 
2007 Amendment. This satisfaction of judgment is a general form. It is a 
new form. To ensure identity of the signer, notarization is prudent but not required. If 
a certified copy of the judgment is recorded, it may be prudent to include that 
recording information.