Mexican judgment recognized

Under the (important, if infrequently-litigated) Uniform Foreign Country Money-Judgment Recognition Act, a judgment creditor successfully domesticated a default judgment rendered by a Mexico City court in a suit on a promissory note. A complex tale about Mexican civil procedure encountered a deferential standard of review, which led to the Fifth Court affirming domestication – “conflicting evidence was presented to the trial court at the evidentiary hearing on the motion for nonrecognition,” and “there was evidence from which the trial court have determined [the judgment debtor] did know about the [Mexican] proceeding in time to defend.” Mariles v. Hector, No. 06-16-00814-CV (Aug. 6, 2018) (mem. op.)