Texas judgment guides

How a Texas judgment earns interest and the dates that keep it enforceable, explained from the statutes, with each source cited. Points the statutes do not settle are marked as pending legal review.

• How post-judgment interest works in Texas

  Where the rate comes from, what part of the judgment earns interest, and how annual compounding works, with a worked example.

• Dormant judgments in Texas: what it means and the dates that matter

  The 10-year writ rule, how each writ restarts it, and what dormancy does to a judgment and its liens.

• Reviving a dormant judgment in Texas: the two-year window

  The two-year revival deadline, scire facias and action of debt, and what revival does and does not bring back.

• Abstract of judgment in Texas: what it is and how the lien works

  What an abstract is, what its lien reaches, and the 10-year, county-by-county clock that ends it.

• Recording an abstract of judgment in more than one Texas county

  Why the lien stops at the county line, and how each county where an abstract is recorded gets its own start and end dates.

• Re-recording an abstract of judgment before the lien ends

  How a subsequent abstract starts a new 10-year lien in a county, why timing matters, and what the statute does not settle.

• Homestead and exempt property: what a Texas judgment lien does not reach

  The homestead and other exemptions written into the lien statute, the size limits, and the homestead release affidavit.

• Justice court (small claims) judgments in Texas: the same clocks

  Why a justice court or small claims judgment runs on the same interest rule, dormancy clock and abstract lien as any other Texas judgment.