§ 724.060.Contents and Execution of Acknowledgment of Satisfaction

This section defines the acknowledgment document itself, the form that runs through nearly every section in this chapter. It has to identify the court and the case by title, cause, and number; name and address the judgment creditor, judgment debtor, and any assignee of record (using the debtor's name exactly as it appears on any recorded abstract); and state the date of entry of judgment and any renewals.

Beyond identification, the acknowledgment has to make its central declaration — that the judgment is satisfied in full, or that the creditor accepted different payment or performance in full satisfaction — and then disclose the recording landscape. It must say whether an abstract has been recorded in any county (and if so, where, and at what book and page), with a notice that the acknowledgment or a clerk's certificate under § 724.100 still has to be recorded there to release the real property lien. It must make the parallel disclosure for any notice of judgment lien filed with the Secretary of State, since that filing likewise needs a follow-up filing to terminate the lien on personal property.

Subdivision (b) requires the acknowledgment to be executed the way a conveyance of real property is acknowledged, and subdivision (c) limits who can do that: the judgment creditor, the assignee of record, the attorney for either (absent a filed revocation of authority), or, in child support cases, the local child support agency director or a designee.