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Wisconsin ordinary civil money judgments: entry, docketing, liens, enforceability, renewal, interest, payments, and satisfaction

Actual fresh source-access date: October 26, 2026, America/Los_Angeles; October 27, 2026 UTC. Historical baseline: October 22, 2026 Pacific. Mode/model: Regular Chat on GPT-5.6 Sol Pro. No separate UI power-tier, quota, reset, or measured-ranking claim is made. Scope: Ordinary Wisconsin civil money judgments, including small-claims money judgments where the procedure differs. Credit-reporting periods do not determine judgment enforceability. P01-P03 and P07 remain unreviewed and supply no accepted premise. P04-P06 remain bounded same-coordinator reviews, not acceptance of Wisconsin, A066, or the parent dossier.

Wisconsin primary-text access qualification

The Wisconsin Legislature reports its online statutes updated through 2025 Wisconsin Act 247. However, fresh attempts to retrieve the integrated official bodies of §§806.06, 806.19, 815.04, and 893.40 through reasonable alternative Legislature URLs timed out. I therefore used:

• current official Wisconsin court opinions, forms, guides, and interest materials;
• the official currentness index and official section/act search results;
• an official Wisconsin-government copy of 2025 Act 60 and DOR’s effective-date summary; and
• freshly read 2025 statute reproductions as read-aids, not as silently relabeled official Legislature-body reads.

That limitation applies to each statute-source row below. It is not treated as proof that an unread exception or amendment does not exist. Wisconsin Legislative Documents

Executive disposition

Wisconsin does not have one universal “judgment lasts X years” rule. At least four distinct events and clocks matter:

The Wisconsin Supreme Court separately identifies entry as filing, docketing as placing the judgment in the judgment docket, and docketing as the act producing the real-property lien. Wisconsin Court System

G1. Four clocks and the legal acts that trigger them

1. Rendition, entry, perfection, and docketing

1.1 Rendition

A judgment is rendered when signed by the judge or by the clerk at the judge’s written direction. Rendition supplies the reference date for the five-year and twenty-year execution rules in §815.04. S_WI-P08-C001.

1.2 Entry

A judgment is entered when filed in the office of the clerk of court. Entry starts:

• ordinary postjudgment interest under §815.05(8); and
• the general twenty-year period for an action on a court-of-record judgment under §893.40.

Entry is therefore legally different from signing, oral announcement, taxation of costs, and docketing. C002. Justia Law+1

1.3 Perfection

A judgment is perfected by taxation of costs and insertion of the costs into the judgment. When the favored party causes entry, that party ordinarily must perfect within 30 days after entry or forfeit the right to recover costs. Execution does not issue until:

• the judgment is perfected;
• the perfection period has expired; or
• the party seeking execution files a written waiver of entitlement to costs.

Perfection affects costs and readiness for execution; it does not create the county real-property lien. C003. Justia Law

1.4 Docketing

Docketing occurs when the clerk enters the statutory judgment information in the judgment and lien docket. In South Milwaukee Savings Bank, the Wisconsin Supreme Court said filing and docketing are separate activities and held that, once the docketing fee condition is met, docketing is to occur immediately upon entry. C004. Wisconsin Court System

The 2025 reproduction of §806.10 requires the docket to identify the debtors, creditor, attorney if stated, entry date and time, and judgment amount including costs. Failure to state the debtor’s residence does not invalidate the judgment, but residence information is material to the lien provision. Justia Law

2. Ten-year real-property lien

A properly docketed judgment showing the judgment debtor’s residence ordinarily becomes, for 10 years from docket entry, a lien on the debtor’s nonexempt real property:

• in the county where the judgment is rendered;
• owned at docketing; or
• acquired during the ten-year period.

The lien does not automatically cover every asset, every county, every interest held by a spouse, or exempt homestead equity. C005. The official Legislature search result independently exposes the current ten-year wording, although the full official body could not be retrieved. Justia Law+1

2.1 Other Wisconsin counties

A judgment is not automatically a statewide real-property lien. To enter it in another Wisconsin county, §806.13 calls for a certified transcript from the original judgment and lien docket to be filed with the clerk in that other county. C006. Justia Law

A later satisfaction likewise must reach each other county’s judgment and lien docket. The post-Act 60 procedure is addressed under G4.

2.2 Homestead and exempt-property boundary

Section 806.15’s ordinary lien language expressly excludes homestead property exempt from execution. In Rumage v. Gullberg, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that a fully exempt homestead had no judgment lien attached; where nonexempt surplus equity exists, the result can differ. The dollar amount discussed in that 2000 opinion was historical and is not treated as the current homestead exemption amount. C007. Wisconsin Court System

This pass does not determine:

• the current homestead-exemption amount;
• equity, mortgages, title, ownership, marital property, or fair market value;
• personal-property exemptions;
• whether particular sale proceeds remain exempt; or
• the procedure for a forced sale.

2.3 Spouse and former-spouse property

Section 806.15 contains additional predicates before a lien attaches to property held by a spouse or former spouse who is not the judgment debtor, including naming and marital-obligation conditions. That branch is acknowledged but not fully researched here. It should not be collapsed into the ordinary debtor-property rule. Justia Law

3. Small-claims money judgments

For Wisconsin small claims, §799.24 states that a rendered judgment or order is immediately entered in the court record, with the date noted as the entry date. The clerk ordinarily mails notice of entry within five days. Docketing into the judgment and lien docket occurs upon payment of the exact statutory fee. C008. Justia Law

The court system’s small-claims collection guide emphasizes that:

• the court does not automatically collect the judgment;
• a judgment may exist without being docketed;
• docketing is what creates the ten-year real-estate lien; and
• local court rules and procedures must also be consulted.

The guide is dated November 2019 and supplies general guidance, not a substitute for current statutes or county-specific procedure. Wisconsin Court System

4. Suspension, appeal, and lien restoration

4.1 Legally delayed enforcement

Where collection or sale is delayed by law and the creditor causes an appropriately dated notation such as “enforcement suspended by injunction” to be entered on the judgment and lien docket, the delay after that entry is excluded from the ten-year lien period. A private understanding or unrecorded delay does not satisfy this text by itself. C017. Justia Law

4.2 Appeal

An appeal alone ordinarily does not stay execution or enforcement. A trial or appellate court may grant a stay under the relevant law, and §806.15 provides a specific lien treatment when:

• the appeal is pending;
• the required bond or deposit has been made;
• the court orders the “secured on appeal” notation; and
• notice and other procedural predicates are satisfied.

The lien ceases during the appeal under that branch and can be restored on affirmance, dismissal, and remittitur with the required docket entry. C018. Justia Law+1

G2. Execution, renewal, and an action on the judgment

5. Ordinary execution within five years

For a perfected judgment of a court of record, execution may ordinarily issue at any time within five years after rendition. If an execution was issued and returned unsatisfied in whole or in part, further executions may issue on the judgment creditor’s application, subject to the outer statutory limit. C009, C011. Justia Law

This is an execution-mechanism rule. It is not the same as the ten-year real-property lien or the twenty-year action-on-judgment period.

6. Execution after five years

If no execution issued during the first five years, execution thereafter requires:

• leave of court, in its discretion;
• prior notice to the judgment debtor served as a summons is served, or the specified substitute process for an absent/nonresident debtor;
• a petition by the judgment creditor or assignee;
• a statement that all or part of the judgment remains unpaid; and
• a statement that the petitioner is the bona fide owner of the judgment for value.

A collector’s demand, internal account notation, credit report, or payment request is not a substitute for that leave, notice, and petition process. C010. Justia Law

7. Twenty-year outer execution limit

Section 815.04 states that no execution shall issue and no proceeding shall be commenced upon a judgment after 20 years from rendition. C012. Justia Law

Section 893.40 separately says an action upon a judgment or decree of a court of record must generally be commenced within 20 years after entry, subject to its express foreclosure and family/support exceptions. C013. Justia Law

Because rendition and entry can occur on different dates, these two twenty-year references should not be presented as always sharing the same endpoint.

8. Action on a Wisconsin judgment

For a judgment rendered by a Wisconsin court between the same parties, §806.23 requires:

• leave of court;
• good cause shown; and
• notice to the adverse party.

C014. Justia Law

8.1 What the action accomplishes

Wisconsin appellate authority describes an action on the judgment as a way to obtain a new, enforceable judgment when an earlier money judgment is expired or expiring. Good cause has included circumstances where:

• the twenty-year period was approaching expiration; or
• the ten-year judgment-lien period had expired and a new judgment was needed to obtain a new lien.

A money judgment that has become unenforceable is not simply “renewed” by filing a motion in the old case. The creditor must obtain leave and pursue the action resulting in a new judgment. C015. Wisconsin Court System+1

The distinction is:

8.2 Timing and good cause

The action must still be timely under §893.40. A creditor cannot wait until after the twenty-year repose period and assume that “good cause” revives an already barred ordinary action. Chase describes good cause near expiration, not a general power to disregard the repose period. Laches or other defenses may also matter even within a statutory period. C013–C015. Justia Law+1

8.3 No automatic restart from partial payment or acknowledgment

Nothing in the provisions and published opinions read for this pass makes any of the following, by itself, the rendition, entry, docketing, or new action necessary to restart a judgment clock:

• a collection letter;
• an account assignment;
• a new collector’s involvement;
• a credit-report entry;
• an oral acknowledgment; or
• a partial payment.

That is a bounded inference from the statutory trigger language, not a conclusion that no tolling, estoppel, settlement, bankruptcy, or other doctrine could ever affect a particular judgment. C016. Justia Law+3

9. Intervening events and special exceptions

Death or estate

Section 815.05 includes execution language for property in the hands of personal representatives, heirs, devisees, legatees, tenants, and trustees. But probate claims, survival, estate administration, notice, priority, exempt property, and creditor deadlines require a separate estate pass. No automatic clock suspension at death was established here. Justia Law

Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy can impose a federal stay and affect personal liability, liens, collection, and satisfaction. Wisconsin §806.19(4) contains a separate post-discharge satisfaction process. That branch is expressly deferred; this report does not treat discharge as automatic docket satisfaction or automatic lien elimination. Justia Law

Family/support and legally impossible enforcement

Section 893.40 expressly cross-references special exceptions, including §893.415. In Johnson v. Masters, the Wisconsin Supreme Court addressed an unusual family-law judgment provision that could not legally be implemented until a later statutory change. The court’s holding was confined to those circumstances; it is not a general equitable extension for ordinary money judgments. C019. Wisconsin Court System

G3. Postjudgment interest, costs, and payment allocation

10. Ordinary postjudgment-interest formula

Except for the §807.01(4) branch and other explicit statutory exceptions, Wisconsin’s ordinary postjudgment-interest rate is:

1 percentage point + the Federal Reserve H.15 prime rate in effect on the applicable January 1 or July 1.

The applicable reference date is:

• January 1 for judgments entered January 1 through June 30; or
• July 1 for judgments entered after June 30.

Interest runs on the amount recovered from entry until paid. C020–C021. Justia Law+1

The rate is selected from the entry date and remains the judgment’s rate rather than being reset every January and July. The Wisconsin Court System’s official guide states this expressly. Wisconsin Court System

11. Verified 2026 rates

The official Wisconsin Court System table lists:

C022. The court warns that the table is informational and the governing statutes control the rate applicable to a particular judgment. Wisconsin Court System

No current prime rate is independently imported from memory. The worked calculation below uses the official 2026 court-table rate.

12. Pre-entry interest and costs are distinct

Section 814.04(4) addresses interest from a verdict, decision, or report until judgment entry and treats that amount as part of taxable costs. Section 815.05(8) addresses postjudgment interest from entry until payment. These are different periods and should not be double-counted. C023. Justia Law+1

Likewise, these categories must be kept separate:

• judgment principal;
• taxed costs and disbursements;
• pre-entry interest added as costs;
• postjudgment interest;
• sheriff or execution fees;
• contractual charges adjudicated in the judgment;
• settlement-provider fees; and
• collector-added charges.

P01-P03 are not adopted as authority for adding any fee to a judgment.

13. Special rates and categories

The current statutory reproduction and annotations identify these material limits:

• a foreign judgment’s own rate may control after Wisconsin filing;
• §815.05(8) is the general rate unless the legislature explicitly established another;
• payment into court can stop postjudgment interest on the amount paid;
• §807.01(4) can create a distinct offer-of-settlement interest branch; and
• condemnation and other special statutes can carry their own rules.

C024. Justia Law+2

A contractual pre-judgment rate is not automatically compounded or carried forward after judgment merely because it appeared in the underlying contract. The actual judgment, governing statute, and controlling special category must be read.

14. Simple versus compound interest

No generally applicable authority read in this pass authorized compounding ordinary §815.05(8) postjudgment interest. The example below therefore uses simple interest for one exact year. This is a bounded computational assumption, not a categorical holding that compounding can never arise under any judgment, special statute, modification, or separate adjudicated obligation. C025.

15. Partial-payment allocation

In DeWitt Ross & Stevens v. Galaxy Gaming, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals stated the longstanding rule that, where there is one debt and no different agreement or debtor direction, a partial payment is applied:

1. first to accrued interest;
2. then any surplus to principal; and
3. future interest is calculated on the remaining principal.

That case involved an attorney-fee account and a silent agreement. Express judgment language, a settlement, multiple debts, a lawful debtor direction, or another controlling rule could produce a different allocation. C026. Wisconsin Court System+1

Application of a payment does not, by itself, create a new judgment or new lien period.

G4. Payment, satisfaction, release, and correction of the record

16. Private payment is not the same as docket satisfaction

Payment or settlement can satisfy the economic obligation while the court record and judgment lien docket remain unchanged. Under §806.19, satisfaction may be entered in whole, in part, or as to selected judgment debtors through:

• an instrument signed and acknowledged by the judgment owner;
• if no assignment has been filed, an instrument by the owner’s attorney of record; or
• an acknowledgment signed and entered on the original county’s judgment and lien docket and witnessed by the clerk.

C028. Justia Law+1

Partial satisfaction

A partial satisfaction—or release of only some judgment debtors—must state:

• the amount paid; or
• the consideration for the release;

and must name the released debtors. C029. Justia Law

Clerk’s act

When a duly executed satisfaction is filed, the clerk enters it:

• in the case record; and
• on the judgment and lien docket, including substance, amount paid, and filing date.

C030. Justia Law

The filed/docketed act, not merely a creditor’s private promise, supplies the statutory public-record consequence.

17. Other statutory satisfaction routes

Execution returned satisfied

When execution is returned satisfied in whole or part, the judgment is considered satisfied to that amount unless the return is vacated; the clerk records the collected amount. C031. Justia Law

Deposit with the clerk

A debtor may deposit the amount of liability with the original court clerk. The clerk issues a certificate and immediately notes the deposit on the docket. The debtor must immediately notify the judgment owner and attorney personally or by registered mail. Ten days after notice, and upon proof of service, the clerk satisfies the record unless the court orders otherwise. C032. Justia Law+1

The statute’s “ten days after giving notice” language must be applied to the actual notice date and method. No individualized calendar is calculated here.

Fully paid but creditor does not satisfy

If the judgment was fully paid but remains unsatisfied—or the satisfaction was lost—the court may authorize the creditor’s attorney to satisfy it or order it satisfied. C033.

If the owner fails to satisfy the judgment for seven days after:

• full payment;
• a request; and
• tender of reasonable satisfaction charges,

the statute provides for $50 plus actual damages occasioned by the failure. Those predicates must all be established. This is not automatic debt cancellation, an automatic award, or a per-request penalty. C034. Justia Law

18. Lien effect of satisfaction

Once satisfaction is entered on the judgment and lien docket:

• the lien ceases to the extent of the satisfaction;
• later execution must seek only the residue; and
• where only some judgment debtors were released, later execution must be limited to those remaining liable.

C035. Justia Law

A full settlement with one joint debtor does not automatically establish the effect on every other debtor; the settlement language, judgment structure, contribution rules, and stated scope of satisfaction matter.

19. Satisfaction in other Wisconsin counties

19.1 Act 60 procedure

Effective December 11, 2025, 2025 Wisconsin Act 60 revised §806.22. If a judgment was also entered in another county, a filing in that county may now use any of these:

1. a certified copy of the satisfaction;
2. a certificate under official seal from the clerk where the satisfaction was entered; or
3. a satisfaction signed and acknowledged by the owner—or, if no assignment is filed, the owner’s attorney of record.

For a partial satisfaction or release of selected debtors, the document must state the amount paid or identify the released debtors. The other county’s clerk then makes the corresponding judgment-and-lien-docket entry. C036. GovDelivery+1

This means satisfying the original county’s record does not silently update every other county.

19.2 Forms and version limits

The official GF-129 Satisfaction of Judgment form, revised May 2024, supports full or partial satisfaction and identifies the judgment creditor or attorney. C037. Wisconsin Court System

But:

• GF-129 predates Act 60;
• §806.22(1)(c) requires a satisfaction to be signed and acknowledged for the direct other-county route;
• the public form does not by itself resolve whether a particular clerk will accept it for every post-Act 60 other-county filing; and
• local clerk procedures remain held.

The official forms index still lists:

The age of GF-121 is a reason not to assume that it describes every route created by Act 60. Wisconsin Court System+2

20. Satisfaction and credit reporting

A signed settlement, creditor release, clerk filing, lien-docket satisfaction, and credit-report update are distinct events. This pass determines no FCRA reporting deadline or deletion right and does not reopen PASS-04 through PASS-06. C039.

G5. Bounded worked classifications, calendars, and calculations

All examples are invented. They do not determine a real deadline, validate a judgment, authorize collection, or predict an outcome.

Example 1 — Different rendition, entry, and docket dates

Facts

• Rendered: Wednesday, January 7, 2026.
• Entered: Thursday, January 8, 2026.
• Docketed with required information and fee: Wednesday, January 14, 2026.
• Ordinary domestic circuit-court money judgment.
• No execution, stay, injunction notation, new judgment, or satisfaction.

Conditional clocks

January 7, 2031 is a Tuesday; January 14, 2036 and January 8, 2046 are Mondays. The first day is excluded and the last included for periods requiring an act, subject to Sunday/holiday rules. C001–C005, C009, C012–C013, C020, C041.

Adverse branch: If the judgment was never docketed, the ten-year county real-property lien did not arise merely from entry.

Missing document: Judgment, court-stamp entry, lien-docket entry, residence information, fee record, and execution history.

Example 2 — Judgment approaching the twenty-year boundary

Facts

• Rendered and entered: October 1, 2007.
• Docketed: October 5, 2007.
• No lien suspension and no new judgment.

Modeled results

• Ordinary original lien anniversary: October 5, 2017.
• Five-year routine-execution period ended: October 1, 2012.
• Twenty-year entry/rendition anniversary: October 1, 2027.

A creditor seeking a new judgment would need timely leave, good cause, notice, commencement of the proper action, and ultimately a new judgment. A petition for leave filed near the deadline is not itself the new judgment. C005, C009–C015.

Adverse branch: Laches, service defects, lack of ownership, prior satisfaction, bankruptcy, or an applicable special category could change the analysis.

Missing documents: Complete docket, assignment chain, payment history, prior execution returns, leave order, complaint, service, and any stay.

Example 3 — Expired property lien and claimed “renewal”

Facts

• Original docket entry: April 15, 2014.
• Collector sent letters in 2023.
• Debtor made a partial payment in 2023.
• No recorded suspension.
• Creditor later claims the old lien “renewed.”

Modeled result

• Ordinary ten-year lien anniversary: April 15, 2024.
• Neither letters nor payment is, by itself, a new judgment or docket entry.
• If a proper action produced a new judgment entered and docketed on September 3, 2025, that new docketing could create its own lien period, modeled to September 3, 2035.

A new judgment would not retroactively preserve the old lien’s priority during the gap. C005, C014–C016.

Adverse branch: A properly recorded statutory suspension, appeal treatment, or another special priority rule could alter the result.

Missing documents: Old and new judgments, leave order, complaint/service, lien docket, property and priority records.

Example 4 — One year of interest and a partial payment

Facts

• Judgment entered August 3, 2026.
• Principal included in judgment: $12,000.
• Stipulated ordinary rate: the official 2026 rate of 7.75%.
• Exactly one year elapses.
• No other costs, payments, statutory exception, compounding, or special-rate order.
• One payment of $5,000 at the end of the year.

Interest calculation

$12,000 × 0.0775 × 1 year = $930

Total immediately before payment:

$12,000 + $930 = $12,930

Under the interest-first rule on the stated assumptions:

• $930 is applied to accrued interest.
• Remaining payment to principal: $5,000 − $930 = $4,070.
• Remaining principal: $12,000 − $4,070 = $7,930.

Future interest would be computed on $7,930 under the same simple-interest assumption. C020–C022, C025–C026.

Adverse branch: An express payment direction, judgment term, lawful agreement, special statute, multiple debts, payment timing before one full year, or additional taxable costs changes the arithmetic.

Example 5 — Compromise payment and full satisfaction

Facts

• Calculated judgment balance, including stipulated interest and costs: $8,000.
• Judgment owner agrees in writing to accept $5,000 as full satisfaction.
• $5,000 is paid.
• No other debtor or reserved claim.

Conditional result

Economic settlement does not itself change the public docket. A full satisfaction instrument signed by the proper owner or authorized attorney must be filed, followed by the clerk’s case-record and lien-docket entries. Once entered, the lien ceases. C028, C030, C035.

Adverse branch: If the agreement merely accepted $5,000 as a partial payment, or made discharge conditional on a later event, full satisfaction would be inaccurate.

Missing documents: Settlement, proof of performance, assignment record, signed acknowledgment, and clerk entry.

Example 6 — Partial satisfaction involving two judgment debtors

Facts

• Judgment is jointly recorded against Debtors A and B.
• Creditor receives $4,000 to release A only.
• Creditor intends to continue against B.

Required act

The partial satisfaction must state either:

• the amount paid; or
• the consideration for release;

and must name A as released. The clerk records the partial satisfaction, and later execution is limited to the residue and remaining liable debtor. C029–C030, C035.

Adverse branch: A settlement releasing “all claims” without preserving rights against B could have a different contractual effect. This pass does not decide joint-obligation or contribution law.

Example 7 — Satisfaction in multiple counties

Facts

• Judgment entered and docketed in County 1.
• Transcript later docketed in County 2.
• Full satisfaction entered in County 1 on June 5, 2026.

Conditional result

County 2 is not automatically updated. Under post-Act 60 §806.22, County 2 can receive:

• a certified satisfaction copy;
• the original county clerk’s sealed certificate; or
• a qualifying signed-and-acknowledged satisfaction.

County 2’s clerk must then make the corresponding docket entry. C036.

Adverse branch: A private release or GF-129 copy that does not satisfy the acknowledgment or clerk requirements may be insufficient for the other-county route.

Missing document: County 2 transcript entry, chosen Act 60 instrument, acknowledgment, filing receipt, and County 2 docket entry.

Example 8 — Small-claims judgment never docketed

Facts

• Small-claims money judgment rendered and entered April 6, 2026.
• Clerk mails notice within the statutory five-day period.
• No docketing fee is paid and no judgment-and-lien-docket entry occurs.

Result

The judgment exists and interest can run from entry, but the specific ten-year §806.15 county real-property lien has not arisen through docketing. The court does not automatically collect it. C002, C005, C008, C020.

Adverse branch: Later docketing can create a lien prospectively, subject to then-applicable procedure, ownership, and statutory duration. Priority does not relate back merely to the judgment’s earlier entry.

Example 9 — Appeal and a “secured on appeal” notation

Facts

• Judgment docketed June 10, 2026.
• Appeal filed.
• Required bond or deposit furnished.
• Court orders “secured on appeal” notation July 1, 2026.

Conditional result

The lien ceases during the pending appeal under this statutory branch. If the judgment is affirmed or the appeal dismissed and remittitur filed, the required restoration notation restores the lien. C018.

Adverse branch: Filing an appeal without a stay, bond/deposit, court order, and notation generally does not stop enforcement.

Example 10 — Foreign judgment

Facts

• Authenticated foreign judgment filed in Wisconsin on January 2, 2026.
• Filing notice and affidavit requirements are assumed satisfied.

Result

Section 806.24 says no execution or other enforcement process may issue until 15 days after filing. The foreign judgment otherwise receives circuit-court-judgment treatment, subject to its defenses and stay provisions. Its originating interest rate may control. C024, C038. Justia Law

Held calendar: An exact first permissible enforcement date is not stated here because the statutory phrase, service facts, court practice, and time-computation application must be checked in the actual matter.

G6. Old-to-new disposition and complete boundaries

21. P04 boundary crosswalk

22. Evidence-backed article and tool opportunities

Judgment Clock Classifier

A useful public tool can ask for:

• judgment type and court;
• rendition date;
• entry date;
• perfection/cost status;
• docket date and county;
• transcripts filed in other counties;
• first and later executions;
• suspension or secured-on-appeal notation;
• new action/new judgment;
• satisfaction events; and
• special category such as support, foreign, federal, tribal, tax, or restitution.

It should display separate clocks rather than one “expiration date.”

Postjudgment Interest Calculator

The calculator must require:

• judgment entry date;
• ordinary, foreign, §807.01, or other special-rate status;
• judgment principal and taxed costs;
• payments and their dates;
• court deposits;
• allocation instructions; and
• whether a new or amended judgment changed the base.

The ordinary rate should be fixed from entry under the verified table, not reset every six months.

Satisfaction Checklist

A checklist can distinguish:

• payment or settlement completion;
• current owner and filed assignment;
• full versus partial satisfaction;
• released joint debtors;
• original county and transcript counties;
• signature and acknowledgment;
• clerk filing and docket entries;
• execution returns; and
• separate reporting updates.

These are content opportunities, not clearance to publish, operate a calculator, or determine an individual deadline.

Source register — S_WI-P08-S001 onward

All fresh accesses occurred October 26, 2026 Pacific / October 27, 2026 UTC. Exact resource-specific clock times are unknown. “Read-aid” means the official integrated Wisconsin body failed and the current reproduction was freshly read with that limitation.

Source-register count: 30.

Atomic claim register — S_WI-P08-C001 onward

Atomic claim count: 43.

Granular core coverage table

Core coverage rows: 60.

Territorial and special-category branches

Territorial/special rows: 14.

Deferred families

Deferred rows: 22.

Example inventory

Worked examples: 10.

Final researcher self-check

Actual reading

I freshly read or inspected:

• the official Wisconsin opinions in South Milwaukee Savings Bank, Rumage, Chase Lumber, Johnson, and DeWitt Ross;
• the official Wisconsin court-system civil-interest PDF, GF-129, small-claims guide, and forms index;
• the official Wisconsin-government Act 60 PDF and DOR effective-date summary;
• the Wisconsin Legislature currentness and Act/section search results;
• current 2025 reproductions of the identified judgment, execution, interest, satisfaction, foreign-judgment, tribal-judgment, and time-computation statutes; and
• the relevant PDF page images identified in the source register.

Access limitations

• The official integrated Legislature bodies for several central statutes timed out through both ordinary and reasonable alternate document URLs.
• The 2025 reproductions are not misrepresented as official Legislature-body reads.
• No paid citator or comprehensive subsequent-history service was available.
• No conclusion is made that no unpublished order, local rule, clerk policy, or later amendment exists merely because it was not returned.
• The current online-statutes index reports updates through 2025 Act 247, but that does not replace reading every operative section and cross-reference.

Calculation check

The calendar examples use:

• the actual Gregorian calendar;
• the general rule excluding the first day and including the last;
• no invented local filing hours;
• no unverified holiday adjustment; and
• no guarantee that a modeled anniversary is an actual last filing day in a real case.

The interest example uses:

• $12,000 principal;
• 7.75% simple annual interest;
• one exact year;
• $930 interest;
• a $5,000 payment;
• $4,070 applied to principal after interest; and
• $7,930 remaining principal.

No compounding, award, recoverability, fee, or actual balance is inferred.

Register reconciliation

Crosswalks, source rows, claims, examples, and deferred rows are counted separately and are not presented as duplicate substantive coverage.

No actions performed

No named party, creditor, collector, attorney, court case record, judgment docket, property, lien, borrower, provider, account, credit report, tax status, bankruptcy, or private document was searched. No form was completed, filed, or submitted. No clerk, court, agency, creditor, or person was contacted. No record request, complaint, payment, purchase, account change, browser control, API, website action, local file, or publication occurred.

This is the researcher’s self-check, not independent review, legal advice to a particular person, validation of an actual judgment, operational approval, publication acceptance, or acceptance of Wisconsin PASS-08, A066, or the parent dossier.

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