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1    AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
5changing Sections 2-1602, 4-107, and 12-183 and by adding
6Section 5-127 as follows:
 
7    (735 ILCS 5/2-1602)
8    Sec. 2-1602. Revival of judgment.
9    (a) A judgment may be revived by filing a petition to
10revive the judgment in the seventh year after its entry, or in
11the seventh year after its last revival, or in the twentieth
12year after its entry, or at any other time within 20 years
13after its entry if the judgment becomes dormant and by serving
14the petition and entering a court order for revival as provided
15in the following subsections. The provisions of this amendatory
16Act of the 96th General Assembly are declarative of existing
17law.
18    (b) A petition to revive a judgment shall be filed in the
19original case in which the judgment was entered. The petition
20shall include a statement as to the original date and amount of
21the judgment, court costs expended, accrued interest, and
22credits to the judgment, if any.
23    (c) Service of notice of the petition to revive a judgment

 

 

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1shall be made in accordance with Supreme Court Rule 106.
2    (d) An order reviving a judgment shall be for the original
3amount of the judgment. The plaintiff may recover interest and
4court costs from the date of the original judgment. Credits to
5the judgment shall be reflected by the plaintiff in
6supplemental proceedings or execution.
7    (e) If a judgment debtor has filed for protection under the
8United States Bankruptcy Code and failed to successfully
9adjudicate and remove a lien filed by a judgment creditor, then
10the judgment may be revived only as to the property to which a
11lien attached before the filing of the bankruptcy action.
12    (f) A judgment may be revived as to fewer than all judgment
13debtors, and such order for revival of judgment shall be final,
14appealable, and enforceable.
15    (g) This Section does not apply to a child support judgment
16or to a judgment recovered in an action for damages for an
17injury described in Section 13-214.1, which need not be revived
18as provided in this Section and which may be enforced at any
19time as provided in Section 12-108.
20    (h) If a judgment becomes dormant during the pendency of an
21enforcement proceeding against wages under Part 14 of this
22Article or under Article XII, the enforcement may continue to
23conclusion without revival of the underlying judgment so long
24as the enforcement is done under court supervision and includes
25a wage deduction order or turn over order and is against an
26employer, garnishee, or other third party respondent.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 97-350, eff. 1-1-12; 98-557, eff. 1-1-14.)
 
2    (735 ILCS 5/4-107)  (from Ch. 110, par. 4-107)
3    Sec. 4-107. Bond. After Before the entry of an order for
4attachment, as hereinabove stated, the court shall take bond
5and sufficient security, payable to the People of the State of
6Illinois, for the use of the person or persons interested in
7the property attached, in double the sum sworn to be due,
8conditioned for satisfying all costs which may be awarded to
9such defendant, or to any others interested in the proceedings,
10and all damages and costs which shall be recovered against the
11plaintiff, for wrongfully obtaining the attachment order,
12which bond, with affidavit of the party complaining, or his,
13her or its agent or attorney, shall be filed in the court
14entering the order for attachment. Every order for attachment
15entered without a bond and affidavit taken, is hereby declared
16illegal and void, and shall be dismissed. Nothing herein
17contained shall be construed to require the State of Illinois,
18or any Department of Government thereof, or any State officer,
19to file a bond as plaintiff in any proceeding instituted under
20Part 1 of Article IV of this Act.
21(Source: P.A. 83-707.)
 
22    (735 ILCS 5/5-127 new)
23    Sec. 5-127. Charges relating to electronic filing. All
24charges relating to the electronic filing of cases and

 

 

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1pleadings, imposed by the court, clerk of the court, county, or
2a person with whom the court, clerk, or county may contract,
3are taxable as court costs.
 
4    (735 ILCS 5/12-183)  (from Ch. 110, par. 12-183)
5    Sec. 12-183. Release of judgment.
6    (a) Every judgment creditor, his or her assignee of record
7or other legal representative having received full
8satisfaction or payment of all such sums of money as are really
9due to him or her from the judgment debtor on any judgment
10rendered in a court shall, at the request of the judgment
11debtor or his or her legal representative, execute and deliver
12to the judgment debtor or his or her legal representative an
13instrument in writing releasing such judgment.
14    (b) If the judgment creditor, his or her assigns of record
15or other legal representative to whom tender has been made of
16all sums of money due him or her from the judgment debtor
17including interest, on any judgment entered by a court,
18wilfully fails or refuses, at the request of the judgment
19debtor or his or her legal representative to execute and
20deliver to the judgment debtor or his or her legal
21representative an instrument in writing releasing such
22judgment, the judgment debtor may petition the court in which
23such judgment is of record, making tender therewith to the
24court of all sums due in principal and interest on such
25judgment, for the use of the judgment creditor, his or her

 

 

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1executors, administrators or assigns, whereupon the court
2shall enter an order satisfying the judgment and releasing all
3liens based on such judgment.
4    (c) For the recording of assignment of any judgment the
5clerk of the court in which such judgment is of record is
6allowed a fee of $2.
7    (d) A satisfaction of a judgment may be delivered to the
8judgment debtor, his or her attorney or to the clerk of the
9court in which such judgment is of record.
10    (e) The clerk shall not be allowed any fee for recording
11the satisfaction of judgment. The clerk of the court shall make
12appropriate notation on the judgment docket of the book and
13page where any release or assignment of any judgment is
14recorded.
15    (f) No judgment shall be released of record except by an
16instrument in writing recorded in the court in which such
17judgment is of record. However, nothing contained in this
18Section affects in any manner the validity of any release of
19judgment made, prior to January 1, 1952, in judgment and
20execution dockets by the judgment creditor, his or her
21attorney, assignee or other legal representative.
22    (g) The writ of audita querela is abolished and all relief
23heretofore obtainable and grounds for such relief heretofore
24available, whether by the writ of audita querela or otherwise,
25shall be available in every case by petition hereunder,
26regardless of the nature of the order or judgment from which

 

 

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1relief is sought or of the proceeding in which it was entered.
2There shall be no distinction between actions and other
3proceedings, statutory or otherwise, as to availability of
4relief, grounds for relief or relief obtainable. The petition
5shall be filed in the same proceeding in which the order or
6judgment was entered and shall be supported by affidavit or
7other appropriate showing as to matters not of record. All
8parties to the petition shall be notified as provided by rule.
9    (h) Upon the filing of a release or satisfaction in full
10satisfaction of judgment, signed by the party in whose favor
11the judgment was entered or his or her attorney, the court may
12shall vacate the judgment, and dismiss the action.
13    (i) Any judgment arising out of an order for support shall
14not be a judgment to the extent of payments made as evidenced
15by the records of the Clerk of the Circuit Court or State
16agency receiving payments pursuant to the order. In the event
17payments made pursuant to that order are not paid to the Clerk
18of the Circuit Court or a State agency, then any judgment
19arising out of each order for support may be released in the
20following manner:
21        (1) A Notice of Filing and an affidavit stating that
22    all installments of child support required to be paid
23    pursuant to the order under which the judgment or judgments
24    were entered have been paid shall be filed with the office
25    of the court or agency entering said order for support,
26    together with proof of service of such notice and affidavit

 

 

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1    upon the recipient of such payments.
2        (2) Service of such affidavit shall be by any means
3    authorized under Sections 2-203 and 2-208 of the Code of
4    Civil Procedure or under Supreme Court Rules 11 or 105(b).
5        (3) The Notice of Filing shall set forth the name and
6    address of the judgment debtor and the judgment creditor,
7    the court file number of the order giving rise to the
8    judgment and, in capital letters, the following statement:
9        YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT ON (insert date) THE
10    ATTACHED AFFIDAVIT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF
11    THE CIRCUIT COURT OF .... COUNTY, ILLINOIS, WHOSE ADDRESS
12    IS ........, ILLINOIS. IF, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THE DATE OF
13    THIS NOTICE, YOU FAIL TO FILE AN AFFIDAVIT OBJECTING TO THE
14    SATISFACTION OF THE STATED JUDGMENT OR JUDGMENTS IN THE
15    ABOVE OFFICE, THE SAID JUDGMENTS WILL BE DEEMED TO BE
16    SATISFIED AND NOT ENFORCEABLE. THE SATISFACTION WILL NOT
17    PREVENT YOU FROM ENFORCING THE ORDER FOR SUPPORT THROUGH
18    THE COURT.
19        (4) If no affidavit objecting to the satisfaction of
20    the judgment or judgments is filed within 28 days of the
21    Notice described in paragraph (3) of this subsection (i),
22    such judgment or judgments shall be deemed to be satisfied
23    and not enforceable.
24(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
 
25    (735 ILCS 5/12-170 rep.)

 

 

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1    (735 ILCS 5/12-171 rep.)
2    (735 ILCS 5/12-172 rep.)
3    (735 ILCS 5/12-173 rep.)
4    (735 ILCS 5/12-174 rep.)
5    (735 ILCS 5/12-175 rep.)
6    Section 10. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
7repealing Sections 12-170, 12-171, 12-172, 12-173, 12-174, and
812-175.
 
9    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
10becoming law.