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Client Alert June 22, 2021

New York Updates Law on Recognition of Foreign Country Money Judgments to Bring in Line with Other U.S. Jurisdictions

On June 11, 2021, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed into law a Uniform Foreign Country Money Judgments Act, amending New York’s Uniform Foreign Country Money-Judgments Recognition Act of 1970.  With this enactment, New York follows a growing number of U.S. states that have modernized their recognition acts over the last decade.