HB20 Summary

• Amends Sections 6-6-544 and 6-6-570 of the Code of Alabama 1975 to expand recording requirements for judgments involving land.

• Requires registers or clerks to file judgments in condemnation actions and other actions involving land boundaries or titles with the probate court within 30 days, consistent with existing quiet title judgment requirements.

• Mandates the probate judge record these judgments in the same manner as deeds, with defendants or parties against whom relief is granted indexed in the direct index and plaintiffs or parties quieted in possession indexed in the reverse index.

• Requires courts to order that certified copies of judgments be recorded in the probate office for the county where the land is located and direct the proper indexing of names on direct and indirect indexes.

• Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and gubernatorial approval.