Texas judgments
What a Texas judgment is worth today and the dates that keep it enforceable, computed from Texas's statutes.
Calculators
- What is my Texas judgment worth today?
- Texas post-judgment interest calculator
- Texas judgment payoff calculator
- When does my Texas judgment go dormant?
- When does a Texas abstract of judgment lien end?
Texas post-judgment interest rates by month: the published rate for every month since 2005.
Guides
- How post-judgment interest works in Texas: Where the rate comes from, what part of the judgment earns interest, and how annual compounding works, with a worked example.
- Dormant judgments in Texas: what it means and the dates that matter: The 10-year writ rule, how each writ restarts it, and what dormancy does to a judgment and its liens.
- Reviving a dormant judgment in Texas: the two-year window: The two-year revival deadline, scire facias and action of debt, and what revival does and does not bring back.
- Abstract of judgment in Texas: what it is and how the lien works: What an abstract is, what its lien reaches, and the 10-year, county-by-county clock that ends it.
- Recording an abstract of judgment in more than one Texas county: Why the lien stops at the county line, and how each county where an abstract is recorded gets its own start and end dates.
- Re-recording an abstract of judgment before the lien ends: How a subsequent abstract starts a new 10-year lien in a county, why timing matters, and what the statute does not settle.
- Homestead and exempt property: what a Texas judgment lien does not reach: The homestead and other exemptions written into the lien statute, the size limits, and the homestead release affidavit.
- Justice court (small claims) judgments in Texas: the same clocks: Why a justice court or small claims judgment runs on the same interest rule, dormancy clock and abstract lien as any other Texas judgment.
The rules we use
How JudgmentVault calculates Texas judgments: each rule, the statute behind it, and which rules are still pending legal review.