§ 1724.Effective Date

Title 11. Money Judgments of Other Jurisdictions · Chapter 2. Foreign-Country Money Judgments · Enacted 2007 · no amendments on record · Last verified July 29, 2026

In one sentenceSection 1724 applies this chapter to actions raising foreign-country judgment recognition that were commenced on or after its effective date, while the earlier Uniform Foreign Money-Judgments Recognition Act continues to govern actions commenced before that date.

Full Text of § 1724

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(a) This chapter applies to all actions commenced on or after the effective date of this chapter in which the issue of recognition of a foreign-country judgment is raised.

(b) The former Uniform Foreign Money-Judgments Recognition Act (Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1713) of Title 11 of Part 3) applies to all actions commenced before the effective date of this chapter in which the issue of recognition of a foreign-country judgment is raised.

Plain-English Summary

This chapter replaced an earlier version of California's foreign-judgment recognition law, and this section manages the transition between the two. Any action commenced on or after this chapter's effective date, in which the question of recognizing a foreign-country judgment comes up, is governed by this chapter's rules, the ones covered throughout this batch.

Actions commenced before that date are not swept into the new framework, though. The former Uniform Foreign Money-Judgments Recognition Act, the predecessor law this chapter replaced, continues to apply to any action commenced earlier in which recognition of a foreign-country judgment is at issue. That split keeps pending cases from having the applicable legal standard change out from under them partway through litigation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which law governs a recognition dispute in an action filed after this chapter took effect?

This chapter, the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act.

What if the action was already pending before this chapter's effective date?

The earlier Uniform Foreign Money-Judgments Recognition Act, this chapter's predecessor, continues to govern that action instead.

Why keep the older law in force for some cases?

So that a case already underway is not forced to switch to a different recognition standard partway through the litigation.

Amendment History

Added by Stats 2007 ch 212 (SB 639),s 2, eff. 1/1/2008.

Source & verification. Section text is reproduced verbatim from the Deering's California Codes Annotated / vLex. Enacted by the California Legislature. Last verified July 29, 2026. · Official source

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