§ 673.Acknowledgment of Assignment of Judgment

A judgment is itself an assignable asset, and § 673 gives an assignee a formal way to appear in the court's own records as the current owner of that judgment. Filing an "acknowledgment of assignment of judgment" with the clerk of the court that entered the judgment makes the assignee an assignee of record.

Subdivision (b) spells out what that acknowledgment must contain: the court, cause, and case number; the dates the judgment was entered and any renewals, with where they're recorded; the judgment creditor's name and address and the judgment debtor's name and last known address; a description of the right assigned; and the assignee's own name and address.

Subdivision (c) requires the acknowledgment to be executed the way a real property conveyance is acknowledged, and signed by the judgment creditor or, if there's already been an earlier assignment, by that prior assignee of record. Subdivision (d) covers assignments made through an authorized agent — the agent's authorization has to be documented and filed along with the acknowledgment — and separately lets an assignee become one of record by filing a court order or other proof that an assignment happened by operation of law, without needing the creditor's own signed acknowledgment at all.