§ 724.040.Filing and Service of Acknowledgment Where Abstract Recorded

Recording an abstract of judgment creates a lien reaching into county real property records, so satisfying the judgment isn't fully complete, from the debtor's perspective, until that lien is cleared too. Section 724.040 addresses exactly that situation: once an abstract has been recorded with any county recorder and the judgment is satisfied, the creditor has to act on two fronts at once.

The creditor must file an acknowledgment of satisfaction of judgment with the court, the same document § 724.030 generally requires, and must also serve a copy of that acknowledgment on the judgment debtor, either personally or by mail. That second step gives the debtor the document needed to clear the recorded lien from county real property records — the acknowledgment or the clerk's certificate under § 724.100 is what ultimately gets recorded to release the lien.