§ 697.320.Lien Created By Recording Abstract, Notice of Support Judgment, Interstate Lien Form Or Certified Copy of Judgment

Not every judgment lien on real property follows § 697.310's fixed-amount model. Section 697.320 covers two situations where the judgment itself is paid over time, and creates the lien through a similar but distinct recording process -- an abstract, a notice of support judgment, a federally promulgated interstate lien form, or a certified copy of the judgment, recorded with the county recorder.

Subdivision (a) identifies the two judgment types this section reaches: a judgment for child, family, or spousal support payable in installments, and a judgment entered under § 667.7 against a health care provider requiring periodic payments. Subdivision (b) then gives each type its own duration rule. A support judgment lien, or one created by recording an interstate lien form, continues for as long as the judgment itself remains enforceable -- no fixed ten-year cutoff. A § 667.7 health care provider judgment lien, by contrast, lasts ten years from its creation, but the judgment creditor can extend it by rerecording a certified copy of the judgment before the existing lien expires, which resets the clock to another ten years from the rerecording date.