Le Credit Lyonnais holds two French judgments against Nadd entered in 1978 and 1979, before Nadd moved from Paris to Pensacola and then Orlando. The company sought to enforce these judgments by filing them in the Orange County trial court in October 1995. Nadd moved to dismiss on grounds that the judgments should have been filed in Florida within five years of entry. The trial judge agreed, but the Fifth District Court reversed on grounds that the actual time limit was twenty years.