§ 697.340.Lien Attaches to All Interest In Real Property In County Where Lien Attaches

Once a judgment lien on real property is created, § 697.340 defines exactly what it grabs. Subdivision (a) casts a wide net within one county: every interest in real property located in the county where the lien was created -- whether present or future, vested or contingent, legal or equitable -- that's otherwise subject to enforcement of the money judgment under Article 1 (commencing with § 695.010) of Chapter 1, as of the moment the lien was created.

That net excludes four specific things: rental payments, a leasehold estate with an unexpired term of less than two years, the interest of a beneficiary under a trust, and real property that's subject to an attachment lien in the creditor's favor and that was transferred before judgment -- property already covered by § 695.010(b)'s separate rule. Section 704.950 carves out its own additional exception from all of this.

Subdivision (b) extends the lien forward in time. If the debtor acquires, after the lien was created, an interest in county real property that could have supported a lien under subdivision (a), the lien attaches to that newly acquired interest the moment the debtor acquires it -- the creditor doesn't need to re-record anything to reach property the debtor picks up later.