Utah · LiensUtah judgment liens: recording with the county, eight years and the recorded release

In Utah a judgment continues for eight years from the date the court enters it, unless it is satisfied, renewed or stayed; an order renewing it keeps the original judgment's date and priority and restarts the time limit for an action on it. Since July 1, 2002, a judgment of a district court, a justice court, the Business and Chancery Court or the Constitutional Court becomes a lien on real property only when the judgment, or an abstract of it, is recorded with the county recorder together with the information identifying the judgment debtor or with the judgment creditor's separate information statement. The lien runs from the date the court entered the judgment and covers all real property of the debtor in the county where it is recorded, owned or acquired at any time while the judgment is effective; a judgment for a state agency reaches the debtor's real property statewide. To release, assign, renew or extend the lien, a document must be recorded with the recorder in each county where the lien was recorded, stating the date, the names of the creditor, debtor, assignor or assignee, and that county's recording date, entry number and book and page of the instrument that created the lien (Utah Code §78B-5-202).