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S_NE PASS-18 — Nebraska court-judgment interest, dormancy, revival, judgment liens, satisfaction, and release

Actual fresh research date: October 26, 2026, Pacific / October 26, 2026 UTC Review status: Same-coordinator continuation; not independent review.

This pass is limited to ordinary unsecured consumer-debt court judgments arising from contracts, open accounts, revolving credit, installment obligations, and the narrow negotiable-instrument distinctions needed for judgment treatment. It covers judgment entry, postjudgment interest, dormancy, revivor, judgment liens, foreign and federal judgment boundaries, payment crediting, satisfaction, and release.

PASS-17 remains saved and unreviewed. The arbitration boundary below was freshly verified from §25-2615: an arbitral award does not become an ordinary enforceable court judgment until a court confirms, modifies, or corrects it and enters judgment.

This pass does not complete execution, garnishment, exemptions, asset seizure, mortgages, foreclosure, vehicle liens or deficiencies, medical liens, taxes, support, government debt, bankruptcy, probate, local, tribal, or foreign-country law.

Executive determination

Nebraska does not use a single “judgments last ten years” rule.

The ordinary lifecycle is:

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Court judgment entered
        ↓
Postjudgment interest begins on date of entry
        ↓
Judgment remains active if execution is issued at least once
during each five-year period
        ↓
No execution for five years
        ↓
Judgment becomes dormant and ceases operating as a lien
        ↓
Revivor may be commenced during the next ten years
        ↓
No timely revivor
        ↓
Right to revive is barred

The five-year dormancy period, ten-year revivor window, real-estate lien, lien priority, and postjudgment interest are related but legally distinct. A payment, demand, account statement, collector placement, or credit-report entry does not substitute for execution or formal revivor. Partial payments on a judgment do not restart Nebraska’s dormancy or revivor clocks. Nebraska Legislature+2

For Nebraska state judgments entered on or after July 20, 2002, the default postjudgment interest rate is the rate in effect on the judgment-entry date: two percentage points above the specified 26-week Treasury-bill yield. Later quarterly rate changes affect later judgments; they do not make an existing judgment’s rate float each quarter. The official rate effective October 15, 2026 is 6.441%. A valid oral or written contract can supply a different rate. Nebraska Legislature+1

Nebraska generally uses simple postjudgment interest absent a contract or statute authorizing compounding. But interest runs on the whole judgment, which can already include prejudgment interest and taxable costs. That merger into the judgment is not the same as periodically capitalizing unpaid postjudgment interest. Partial payments ordinarily apply first to accrued postjudgment interest and then to the unpaid judgment. Nebraska.gov+2

A Nebraska district-court judgment ordinarily becomes a lien on the debtor’s real property only in the county where the judgment is entered and indexed. Another county requires a transcript filed and indexed there. A county-court or Small Claims Court judgment is not automatically a real-estate lien; a transcript must be filed with the district-court clerk in the relevant county. Personal property is not bound merely because a judgment exists—it is bound when seized in execution. Nebraska Legislature+2

Full payment and a public-record satisfaction are related but separate events. Interest runs until the judgment is legally satisfied. Filing a satisfaction causes the clerk to update the judgment index, but Nebraska’s public statutes reviewed here do not provide one universal ordinary-judgment deadline or penalty for a creditor’s failure to file satisfaction. Nebraska courts can adjudicate satisfaction on a motion supported by proof where payment is disputed or the creditor does not cooperate. Nebraska Legislature+2

A. Judgment type and court-route matrix

Nebraska defines judgment as the final determination of the parties’ rights, and entry occurs when the clerk file-stamps and dates the judgment. Small Claims Court is a department of county court. A confirmed arbitration award becomes a judgment only after court action under §25-2615. Nebraska Legislature+2

B. Nebraska state postjudgment interest

B1. Rate-selection rule

For ordinary Nebraska money judgments entered on or after July 20, 2002:

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Applicable judgment rate
    =
26-week Treasury-bill bond-investment yield
from the first auction of the relevant annual quarter
    +
2 percentage points

The State Court Administrator publishes the rate, effective two weeks after the Treasury auction publication. The controlling rate is the rate in effect on the judgment-entry date. Nebraska Legislature+1

Recent official Nebraska judgment rates

The complete historical table is maintained by the Nebraska Judicial Branch. A judgment entered in January 2026 does not switch to 6.441% in October 2026; it retains the rate in effect at entry unless a valid contract or another statute supplies a different rate. Nebraska Judicial Branch+1

B2. Contractual-rate branch

The statutory rate does not apply where:

1. another law specifically provides the rate; or
2. the action is founded on an oral or written contract in which the parties agreed to another interest rate.

Nebraska authority recognizes that an agreed contractual rate can govern postjudgment interest without requiring special “postjudgment interest” magic words, but the actual agreement, rate, scope, consumer-credit restrictions, amendments, default provisions, and validity remain necessary. Nebraska Legislature+1

A valid contract-rate branch is not established merely because:

• a ledger displays a rate;
• a collector asserts a rate;
• the original account carried interest before judgment;
• the complaint requested that rate; or
• the judgment is silent about the evidentiary basis.

B3. Start and end events

Postjudgment interest ordinarily runs:

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from:
    date the clerk enters the judgment

until:
    legal satisfaction of the judgment

The statutory text is mandatory. An appeal does not stop interest. A stay can stop enforcement without stopping interest accrual. If the judgment is modified, Nebraska annotations generally treat interest as accruing from the original judgment date rather than the later modification date. Nebraska Legislature

The following do not automatically stop interest:

• filing an appeal;
• entry of a collection stay;
• negotiations;
• partial payment;
• dormancy;
• assignment;
• creditor inaction; or
• filing a credit-report dispute.

Full satisfaction stops postjudgment interest. The effect of tender, payment into court, disputed conditional payments, or an unaccepted settlement check remains fact-specific and was not comprehensively researched here.

B4. Interest base

Postjudgment interest applies to the judgment amount, not merely the original contract principal. In Heritage Bank v. Bruha, the judgment included $51,000 principal plus $10,384.67 accrued interest, and postjudgment interest applied to the resulting $61,384.67 judgment. Taxable costs are also considered part of the judgment. Nebraska.gov+1

Thus, the ordinary conceptual base can be:

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principal adjudged due
+ prejudgment interest incorporated in judgment
+ taxable costs incorporated in judgment
+ any separately awarded monetary relief included in judgment
= postjudgment-interest base

This is not authority to add an unawarded fee, unadjudicated collection cost, or later private charge.

B5. Simple versus compound interest

Nebraska generally disfavors compound interest unless a contract or statute authorizes it. In Meiergerd, conflicting judgment language referencing both “compounded annually” and a fixed per-day amount was interpreted from the record as simple interest; the court would not assume compounding without supporting contract or statute. Nebraska.gov

Two concepts must be separated:

• Interest on a judgment that already includes prejudgment interest: permitted under Heritage.
• Periodic addition of unpaid postjudgment interest to principal so that future interest earns interest: not generally permitted absent valid authority.

B6. Partial-payment allocation

As a general Nebraska rule:

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1. Compute postjudgment interest through the payment date.
2. Apply payment first to accrued postjudgment interest.
3. Apply the remainder to the unpaid judgment.
4. Compute later interest on the reduced judgment balance.

Valley County School District v. Ericson State Bank applied that sequence and used an actual-days-over-365 calculation. The judgment base included principal, prejudgment interest, and taxable costs. Nebraska.gov+2

C. Dormancy, preservation, and revivor

C1. Five-year dormancy rule

An ordinary Nebraska judgment becomes dormant when:

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no execution is issued within 5 years after judgment entry

or:

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5 years pass between the last execution and the next execution

Upon dormancy, the judgment and taxable costs cease operating as a lien on the debtor’s estate. Nebraska Legislature

This means a judgment has no single fixed maximum duration if the creditor continues to issue qualifying executions within each five-year period. Each qualifying execution starts another five-year interval under the text of §25-1515.

C2. Execution issuance versus levy

For dormancy as against the judgment debtor, Nebraska’s official annotations state that issuance and return of an execution without a levy can be enough to prevent dormancy. Nebraska Legislature

For lien priority against a bona fide judgment creditor or purchaser, §25-1542 is stricter: execution must be taken out and levied before five years expire. Nebraska Legislature

Therefore:

A creditor can therefore have an active judgment as against the debtor while losing priority against an intervening purchaser or lien creditor if no levy occurred.

C3. Appeal, injunction, and officer disability

Section 25-1542 protects lien priority where failure to execute and levy was caused by:

• appeal;
• error proceedings;
• injunction;
• vacancy in the sheriff or coroner office; or
• inability of those officers.

The priority protection can continue until one year after the disability is removed. An appeal without supersedeas does not itself extend priority under the older annotations, so the actual stay and enforcement record matter. Nebraska Legislature

The complete treatment of death, probate nonclaim statutes, bankruptcy stays, and successor parties remains outside this pass. The revivor provisions do contain representative and successor procedures, but they do not displace specialized probate or bankruptcy law.

C4. Dormancy is not immediate extinguishment

Dormancy destroys the judgment’s ordinary lien and prevents ordinary enforcement until the judgment is revived, but Nebraska provides a separate revivor mechanism. An action to revive must be commenced within ten years after dormancy. Nebraska Legislature+1

The ordinary timeline is:

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J = judgment-entry date
D = J + 5 years, if no execution

Revivor window:
    after D
    through D + 10 years

If a timely execution occurs at E, the next possible dormancy point is ordinarily five years after E, not five years after the original judgment.

C5. Partial payment does not restart the judgment clock

A judgment is not a contract for purposes of Nebraska’s contract-revival statute, §25-216. Nelssen v. Ritchie holds that partial payments do not toll or restart the period for reviving a dormant judgment. Nebraska.gov+1

Accordingly, none of these ordinarily replaces execution or revivor:

• voluntary payment;
• payment plan;
• written acknowledgment;
• promise to pay;
• creditor account entry;
• settlement discussion; or
• collection letter.

Payment must still be credited against the judgment and interest, but it does not create a new five-year dormancy cycle.

C6. Revivor procedure

A dormant judgment is revived using the incorporated revivor procedure:

1. A motion or application identifies the judgment, dormancy, successor or representative where applicable, and requested revivor.
2. The court enters a conditional order of revivor.
3. If the parties consent, the action stands revived immediately.
4. Without consent, the conditional order must be served in the same manner and returned in the same time as a summons.
5. If sufficient cause is not shown, the judgment stands revived.
6. Publication is permitted only under the conditions in §25-1409, including nonresidence, avoidance, concealment, or unknown representatives, once weekly for four successive weeks. Nebraska Legislature+3

Service merely on the prior attorney is not sufficient under the historic annotation unless a valid general appearance waives the defect. Nebraska Legislature

C7. Defenses in revivor

A revivor proceeding does not retry the underlying contract case. The principal defenses identified by Nebraska appellate authority are:

1. there is no judgment to revive;
2. the purported judgment is void; or
3. the judgment was paid or otherwise discharged.

Extrinsic evidence may be used to prove that the original judgment was void for lack of jurisdiction, but not simply to relitigate the original merits. Nebraska.gov+1

C8. Effect of revivor

An order of revivor continues the vitality of the original judgment with its incidents rather than creating a new judgment on the original debt. The revived real-estate lien operates prospectively from the revivor, not retroactively to preserve lien priority lost during dormancy. Mousel states that a revived judgment lien reaches real estate owned by the debtor at the time of revivor. Justia Law

After revivor, the ordinary execution-and-dormancy cycle applies again. The exact treatment of accumulated interest across a long dormant period is not squarely resolved by a modern ordinary consumer-debt decision located in this pass. Section 45-103.01 says interest runs until satisfaction, and revivor continues the original judgment, but the actual judgment language, payments, and revivor order should be examined before calculating a dormant-period balance.

D. Judgment-lien architecture

D1. Nebraska district-court judgment

A district-court judgment becomes a lien on the debtor’s lands and tenements in the county where the judgment is entered when it is entered on the judgment index. Property in another county requires a transcript filed and indexed in that county. The transcript can have no greater validity or effect than the original judgment. Nebraska Legislature+1

Personal property and real property outside that county are not automatically bound merely by entry; §25-1504 states that other lands and goods or chattels are bound when seized in execution. Nebraska Legislature

D2. County and Small Claims Court judgments

A county-court judgment can support statewide execution, garnishment, attachment, and other execution aids without filing a transcript in the receiving county. But to create a real-estate lien, the creditor must file a transcript in the district court of the county where the lien is sought, and the district clerk must enter it on the judgment index. Nebraska Legislature

Because Small Claims Court is a department of county court, its judgment follows the county-judgment lien route. Nebraska Legislature

D3. County-by-county lien matrix

D4. Duration and priority

The ordinary real-estate lien ceases when the judgment becomes dormant. Revival can create a new prospective lien, but it does not retroactively defeat interests acquired while the judgment was dormant. Nebraska Legislature+1

Section 25-1542 adds the separate priority requirement of actual levy within five years against bona fide purchasers and competing judgment creditors. Nebraska Legislature

D5. Homestead boundary

Nebraska’s homestead statute exempts a qualifying Nebraska resident’s homestead from judgment liens and execution or forced sale up to $120,000, subject to the detailed statutory conditions and exceptions. A judgment lien is therefore not a universal lien against every residence or all equity. Full homestead selection, occupancy, waiver, excess-value, and sale procedures remain outside this pass. Nebraska Legislature

E. Foreign and federal judgments

E1. Foreign or sister-state judgment filed in Nebraska

An authenticated foreign judgment may be filed in a Nebraska court with jurisdiction. Once filed, it is treated like a Nebraska judgment and has the same effect and the same procedures, defenses, reopening, vacatur, stay, enforcement, and satisfaction rules. Nebraska Legislature

At filing, the creditor or lawyer must provide an affidavit stating the creditor’s and debtor’s names and last-known addresses. The clerk mails notice of filing, and the creditor can also mail and file proof. Nebraska Legislature

Enforcement can be stayed if:

• an appeal or stay is pending in the rendering state and the required security has been furnished; or
• Nebraska would stay an equivalent Nebraska judgment, with corresponding security. Nebraska Legislature

St. Joseph Development Corp. v. Sequenzia held that Nebraska’s dormancy count begins when the foreign judgment is registered in Nebraska rather than the original foreign entry date. The official §25-1515 annotation continues to cite that proposition. Its separate discussion of motions to reconsider predates later procedural developments and is not relied upon here. Nebraska Legislature+1

E2. Federal district-court judgment

Federal postjudgment interest is governed by 28 U.S.C. §1961:

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rate:
    weekly average 1-year constant-maturity Treasury yield
    for the calendar week preceding judgment

calculation:
    computed daily to payment
    compounded annually

That rate applies to federal district-court money judgments—not automatically to Nebraska state judgments. U.S. Code

Federal judgment liens generally arise in the same manner, to the same extent, and under the same conditions as liens from the state’s general-jurisdiction courts. Nebraska §25-1305 permits a federal Nebraska judgment transcript to be filed and indexed in another Nebraska county. U.S. Code+1

A federal judgment can also be registered in another federal district under 28 U.S.C. §1963. A certified copy of a full or partial satisfaction can likewise be registered in a district where the judgment is a lien. U.S. Code

F. Satisfaction, settlement, and release

F1. What constitutes full satisfaction

For an ordinary money judgment, full satisfaction ordinarily requires payment or discharge of:

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unpaid judgment balance
+ accrued postjudgment interest
+ unpaid taxable costs incorporated in the judgment
- all credited payments and lawful adjustments

The Nebraska Judicial Branch’s garnishment guidance similarly describes satisfaction as payment of the judgment amount, allowed costs, and accrued interest. Nebraska Judicial Branch

A payment that covers only the original principal is not necessarily full satisfaction if interest or taxable costs remain. Conversely, a creditor cannot continue collecting amounts that were paid, credited, released, or adjudicated as no longer owing.

F2. Judgment-index entry

Whenever a judgment is paid and discharged or a satisfaction is filed, the clerk must record that fact on the judgment index. Nebraska Legislature

The public index update is the record consequence. It should be distinguished from the underlying event:

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Full payment or enforceable settlement performance
    → substantive satisfaction or release

Satisfaction filed with court
    → public court record is updated

Transcript or lien in another county
    → separate indexed record may require separate proof or filing

Credit reporting
    → separate FCRA/state-reporting process

Release of unrelated collateral or obligations
    → separate contract or lien law

F3. Official county-court satisfaction form

Nebraska’s official CC 4:8 Satisfaction of Judgment form is marked “REQUIRED” and is drafted for the plaintiff to acknowledge receipt and satisfaction in full. The form includes a certificate of first-class-mail service to the defendant. Nebraska Judicial Branch

The June 2026 instructions say the form is used to notify the court that the judgment has been paid in full or otherwise resolved. Those instructions are public operational guidance, not a substitute for proof of payment, settlement authority, or the controlling judgment. Nebraska Judicial Branch

F4. Attorney authority

An attorney of record may receive money due the client during or after the proceeding and, upon payment and not otherwise, discharge the claim or acknowledge satisfaction. An attorney cannot compromise the judgment for less than full payment without actual authority from the client. Nebraska Legislature

Thus:

• authority to receive full payment is broader;
• authority to settle for less is not presumed;
• a discharged attorney lacks continuing collection authority; and
• the actual assignment or attorney authorization remains material.

F5. Settlement for less than the judgment

A judgment creditor can agree to accept less than the entire judgment in full settlement. But an executory settlement does not release the judgment until its required performance occurs unless the agreement says otherwise. Cano v. Walker recognizes the distinction between the agreement to release and performance completing the release. Nebraska.gov

A settlement release does not necessarily:

• release unrelated obligations;
• release independent collateral;
• remove a different county’s indexed transcript;
• delete credit reporting;
• discharge a bankruptcy claim; or
• release a different jointly liable person.

Those effects require the actual language and governing law.

F6. Creditor unavailable or refusing to acknowledge satisfaction

Nebraska courts can determine whether a judgment has been satisfied based on payment evidence and can order the judgment discharged or canceled of record. BNSF v. Heckman and Meiergerd v. Qatalyst both involved judicial determinations of satisfaction based on the particular payment and judgment records before the courts. Nebraska.gov+1

The bounded court route is:

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motion or application in the judgment case
+ proof of judgment
+ proof of each payment or settlement performance
+ interest and cost calculation
+ notice to creditor or successor
+ court determination
+ clerk’s index entry if satisfaction is ordered

No statewide Nebraska debtor form specifically titled “motion to compel satisfaction” was located. The exact motion, notice, hearing, evidence, and local filing requirements remain case- and court-specific.

F7. Deadline and penalty gap

The ordinary Nebraska statutes reviewed do not state one universal number of days within which every judgment creditor must file a satisfaction after payment, nor did this bounded search locate one general ordinary-judgment statutory penalty or attorney-fee remedy for failure to file.

That is a bounded finding, not proof that no remedy could arise under:

• a court order;
• settlement contract;
• contempt or mandamus doctrine;
• deceptive-practice law;
• title-loss damages;
• a specialized lien statute;
• garnishment law; or
• another sector-specific provision.

F8. Cross-county release gap

A satisfaction entered in the original case updates that court’s judgment index. This pass did not locate a complete current Nebraska statute automatically transmitting satisfaction to every other county where a transcript was separately indexed.

Therefore, the exact release procedure for each separately indexed district- or county-judgment transcript remains held. The public record in every affected county should not be assumed cleared merely because one court’s index was updated. For federal judgments registered in other federal districts, §1963 expressly permits registration of a certified full or partial satisfaction. U.S. Code

G. Master judgment-lifecycle matrix

H. Bounded hypothetical workflows

The examples are illustrative only. They do not establish a lawful debt, interest rate, fee, collection right, property lien, or actual deadline.

Example 1 — Nebraska statutory-rate judgment

Assumptions

• Nebraska state money judgment entered October 15, 2026.
• Judgment amount: $10,000.00.
• No valid contractual or special statutory rate.
• No payments.
• One full 365-day year.

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Judgment amount                         $10,000.00
Entry-date rate                            6.441%
One-year interest:
$10,000.00 × 0.06441                    = $644.10

Balance after one full year:
$10,000.00 + $644.10                 = $10,644.10

The 6.441% rate remains the judgment’s rate even if Nebraska publishes another quarterly rate later. Nebraska Judicial Branch

Example 2 — Contractual-rate branch

Assumptions

• Judgment amount: $12,000.00.
• A valid contract is proved to provide a 10.00% rate applicable after judgment.
• No consumer-law cap or other invalidity applies.
• One full year; simple interest.

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$12,000.00 × 0.10 = $1,200.00 interest

$12,000.00 + $1,200.00 = $13,200.00

The statutory 6.441% rate would not control on these assumptions. This example does not establish that any actual 10% clause is valid or applicable. Nebraska Legislature

Example 3 — Partial payment applied first to interest

Assumptions

• Judgment entered October 15, 2026.
• Initial judgment: $10,000.00.
• Rate: 6.441%.
• Payment: $2,000.00 on April 15, 2027.
• Elapsed time: 182 days.
• Actual-days/365 method.
• Rounding to nearest cent after the interest calculation.

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Interest through payment date:
$10,000.00 × 0.06441 × 182 ÷ 365
= $321.167671...
= $321.17

Payment applied to interest:
$2,000.00 - $321.17
= $1,678.83 remaining for judgment reduction

New judgment balance:
$10,000.00 - $1,678.83
= $8,321.17

Later interest would run on the reduced $8,321.17 balance. Actual court costs, other payments, settlement terms, or a different allocation agreement would change the result. Nebraska.gov+1

Example 4 — No execution and dormancy

Assumptions

• Judgment entered January 15, 2020.
• No execution is ever issued.
• No appeal, injunction, or statutory disability.

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Entry                              January 15, 2020
Five-year point                    January 15, 2025
Dormancy                           at expiration of that five-year period
Revivor outer point                ten years after dormancy
                                   January 15, 2035

A revivor commenced before expiration of the ten-year post-dormancy period is potentially timely. A motion after that window is barred absent an independently applicable doctrine not established here. Nebraska Legislature+1

Example 5 — Execution preserves judgment, but lien-priority question remains

Assumptions

• Judgment entered January 15, 2020.
• Execution issued January 10, 2025 and returned unsatisfied.
• No levy occurred.

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Dormancy against debtor:
    prevented by timely issuance

New five-year cycle:
    measured from January 10, 2025

Priority against later bona fide purchaser:
    not conclusively preserved because no levy occurred

The judgment can remain active against the debtor while §25-1542 priority against a purchaser or competing creditor remains vulnerable. Nebraska Legislature+1

Example 6 — Timely revivor versus expired window

Branch A: timely

• Judgment became dormant June 1, 2025.
• Revivor commenced May 30, 2035.
• Conditional order is served like summons.
• No sufficient defense is established.

Potential result: judgment is revived.

Branch B: too late

• Same dormancy date.
• Revivor first commenced June 2, 2035.

Potential result: the ten-year statutory revivor window has expired.

In either branch, a payment made in 2030 does not restart the revivor period. Nebraska Legislature+1

Example 7 — Original-county and another-county lien

Facts

• District judgment entered and indexed in Douglas County.
• Debtor owns real estate in Douglas and Lancaster Counties.

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Douglas County:
    indexed district judgment can operate as real-estate lien

Lancaster County:
    no automatic lien from Douglas entry alone
    transcript must be filed and indexed in Lancaster district court

The Lancaster transcript can have no greater validity than the original Douglas judgment. Nebraska Legislature+1

Example 8 — County or Small Claims Court judgment

Facts

• $4,000 Small Claims judgment entered in Sarpy County.
• Creditor wants a real-estate lien in Sarpy County.

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County-court judgment alone:
    no automatic real-estate lien

Required lien step:
    obtain transcript
    file with Sarpy County district-court clerk
    enter transcript on district judgment index

The county court can separately issue execution or garnishment statewide without the transcript; those enforcement procedures are outside this pass. Nebraska Legislature+1

Example 9 — Full payment but no satisfaction filed

Assumptions

• Judgment, accrued interest, and taxable costs are fully paid on event date P.
• No amount remains disputed.
• Creditor does not file CC 4:8.

Legal and record consequences

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Substantive balance:
    $0 on the assumptions

Further postjudgment interest:
    stops when judgment is legally satisfied

Public judgment index:
    may remain unsatisfied until creditor files satisfaction
    or the court orders satisfaction and clerk updates index

Proof needed includes the judgment, every payment, interest computation through P, costs, settlement terms if any, and payee authority. Nebraska Legislature+2

Example 10 — Creditor unavailable or disputes satisfaction

Facts

• Debtor has canceled checks and court receipts.
• Creditor is dissolved, unreachable, or disputes the balance.
• No statewide debtor-side satisfaction motion form is available.

Bounded route

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1. Apply in the judgment case.
2. Identify the judgment.
3. Prove payments and credits.
4. Calculate interest and costs through each payment.
5. Give required notice to creditor, assignee, successor, or counsel.
6. Court determines whether judgment is fully or partly satisfied.
7. Clerk updates index if satisfaction is ordered.

Nebraska appellate decisions demonstrate the availability of judicial satisfaction determinations, but the exact motion, hearing, and service procedure depends on the court and facts. Nebraska.gov+1

Example 11 — Nebraska state judgment versus federal judgment

Nebraska state judgment

• Entered October 15, 2026.
• Amount: $10,000.
• Nebraska entry-date rate: 6.441%.

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First-year interest = $10,000 × 0.06441
                    = $644.10

Federal district-court judgment

• Entered October 19, 2026.
• Amount: $10,000.
• Preceding week ended October 16, 2026.
• Federal rate: 4.49%.

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Year 1 interest:
$10,000 × 0.0449 = $449.00

Year 2 opening compounded balance:
$10,000 + $449 = $10,449

Year 2 interest, assuming no payment:
$10,449 × 0.0449 = $469.1601
                 = $469.16

The federal calculation compounds annually by statute. The Nebraska state calculation generally does not. U.S. Code+1

Example 12 — Foreign judgment registered in Nebraska

Facts

• Foreign judgment entered in State X in 2020.
• Authenticated judgment filed in Nebraska on March 1, 2026.
• Affidavit and notice requirements are satisfied.
• Judgment remains enforceable when filed.
• No Nebraska execution follows.

Under St. Joseph, the Nebraska five-year dormancy count begins from Nebraska registration, not automatically from the 2020 foreign entry. The foreign state’s own enforceability, stays, satisfaction, and jurisdictional defenses remain material. Nebraska Legislature+2

I. Official form and publication inventory

The CC 4:8 satisfaction form and the execution and foreign-judgment forms are operational aids. They do not adjudicate ownership, amount, interest, assignment, satisfaction, or lien status. Nebraska Judicial Branch+2

J. Source register

K. Claim register

L. Granular coverage and remaining gaps

M. Researcher self-check

Freshly read in PASS-18

• Current Nebraska statutes governing:judgment definition and entry;state postjudgment interest;entry-date rate selection and contractual-rate exceptions;dormancy;execution and lien priority;revivor timing and procedure;district, county, federal, and out-of-county judgment liens;foreign-judgment filing, notice, stay, and equivalent status;court-index satisfaction;attorney authority to receive payment and acknowledge satisfaction;the homestead boundary; andjudgment entry after arbitration confirmation.
• Current official Nebraska judgment-rate page and complete historical-rate PDF.
• Current federal §§1961, 1962, and 1963 and the 2026 official federal rate table.
• Material portions and actual PDF pages of:Heritage Bank v. Bruha;Meiergerd v. Qatalyst;Valley County School District v. Ericson State Bank;Capital One Bank v. Tafoya;Nelssen v. Ritchie;Heckman v. BNSF; andCano v. Walker.
• Complete actual-opinion reproductions of:Mousel Law Firm v. Townhouse; andSt. Joseph Development v. Sequenzia.
• Official satisfaction, execution, and foreign-judgment forms and instructions.

Numerical self-check

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State one-year example:
$10,000 × 0.06441 = $644.10

Contract example:
$12,000 × 0.10 = $1,200.00

Partial-payment example:
$10,000 × 0.06441 × 182 ÷ 365 = $321.167671...
Rounded interest = $321.17

$2,000 - $321.17 = $1,678.83
$10,000 - $1,678.83 = $8,321.17

Federal year 1:
$10,000 × 0.0449 = $449.00

Federal year 2:
$10,449 × 0.0449 = $469.1601
Rounded = $469.16

The arithmetic assumes all stated components are lawful and included in the judgment. It does not establish any actual amount owed.

Bounded unresolved searches

The public research did not locate:

• a complete modern ordinary-consumer-debt decision expressly calculating postjudgment interest through a long dormant period;
• a current general Nebraska statute imposing one fixed deadline or penalty for failure to file ordinary judgment satisfaction;
• a statewide debtor-side motion form to compel satisfaction;
• a public statewide revivor form;
• a complete automatic cross-county process for clearing every separately indexed transcript after satisfaction;
• or a modern controlling decision comprehensively resolving a separate action on a domestic judgment apart from statutory revivor.

These are bounded negative results, not proof that no trial-level, local, sector-specific, common-law, or unpublished authority exists.

Not performed

• No actual judgment, award, settlement, payment ledger, execution, levy, transcript, title record, property search, lien search, court docket, satisfaction, debtor, creditor, provider, or private agreement was accessed.
• No named-company or named-person lookup.
• No filing, contact, record request, fee quote, account action, or clerk inquiry.
• No complete:execution;garnishment;exemption;asset-seizure;judgment-duration treatment in bankruptcy;probate nonclaim;mortgage or secured-lien;tax, support, government, medical, utility, rental, or education judgment;credit-reporting consequence;local, tribal, or foreign-country dossier.
• No Deep Research, Work, Codex generation, API, purchase, account change, website action, publication, browser control, other Chat, CAPTCHA bypass, security workaround, or local-file save.

Focused disposition: Nebraska’s ordinary judgment lifecycle is controlled by distinct clocks and records. Interest is fixed by the judgment-entry date and runs until satisfaction. A judgment becomes dormant after five years without execution, while formal revivor remains available for ten years after dormancy. Payments reduce the balance but do not restart those clocks. A district judgment is not an automatic statewide lien, and a county or small-claims judgment is not an automatic real-estate lien at all without district-court transcription. Full payment should be followed by a filed satisfaction or court order updating the judgment index; settlement, satisfaction, lien release, and credit reporting remain separate legal events.

END S_NE PASS-18.