New Century Financial Services, Inc. v. Staples

The opinion of the court was delivered by

FALL, J.A.D.

This is an application pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2A:16^9.1 by judgment debtors discharged in bankruptcy to cancel and discharge of record a judgment that had been entered against them and levied upon their real property prior to the filing of their bankruptcy petition. We first hold that once a monetary judgment entered in the Special Civil Part has been docketed with the Clerk of Superior Court it becomes a Superior Court judgment, a lien against the real property of the judgment debtors, and is not subject to the levying and sale prohibitions…