Enforcement Deadline Calendar

Enter the date of service and the critical days will be listed here.

• 7 DAYS

  Objection to the payment order

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  Filed with the enforcement office. A timely objection stays the proceeding automatically.

  EBL art. 62
• 5 DAYS

  Objection to the debt or jurisdiction

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  Filed with the enforcement court; on its own it does not stay the proceeding.

  EBL art. 168
• 5 DAYS

  Objection to the signature

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  Denial of the signature must be stated separately and expressly, or it is treated as accepted.

  EBL art. 170
• 7 DAYS

  Time to comply with the enforcement order

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  Within this period the debtor must pay or apply to have enforcement stayed.

  EBL art. 32
• 7 DAYS

  Application to stay enforcement

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  Made to the enforcement court where payment, postponement or limitation is alleged.

  EBL art. 33
• 7 DAYS

  Declaration of assets

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  Failing to declare assets in time is a ground for coercive detention.

  EBL art. 74
• 10 DAYS

  Declaration of assets

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  On a negotiable instrument the period for declaring assets is ten days.

  EBL art. 168
• 1 YEARS

  Request for attachment

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  If attachment is not requested within a year the file lapses and must be started again.

  EBL art. 78
• 6 MONTHS

  Removal of the objection

  FROM SERVICE OF THE OBJECTION

  Sought in the enforcement court; the period runs from service of the objection on the creditor.

  EBL art. 68
• 1 YEARS

  Action to annul the objection

  FROM SERVICE OF THE OBJECTION

  Brought in the ordinary courts. If it succeeds, denial compensation may be claimed.

  EBL art. 67
• 10 YEARS

  Limitation of the judgment

  FROM THE JUDGMENT BECOMING FINAL

  The right to enforce a judgment lapses ten years after it becomes final.

  EBL art. 39
• 1 YEARS

  Request for sale

  —

  If a sale is not requested within a year of the attachment, the attachment falls away.

  EBL art. 106

The periods are the statutory maxima under the Enforcement and Bankruptcy Act (no. 2004) and run from the day after service. The calculation only rolls weekends forward to the next working day; public holidays, judicial recess and the validity of service must be assessed separately. This tool is not legal advice.