Sec. 52.004.  RECORDING AND INDEXING OF ABSTRACT.  (a)  The county clerk shall immediately record in the county real property records each properly authenticated abstract of judgment that is presented for recording.  The clerk shall note in the records the date and hour an abstract of judgment is received.
(b)  At the same time an abstract is recorded, the county clerk shall enter the abstract on the alphabetical index to the real property records, showing:
(1)  the name of each plaintiff in the judgment;
(2)  the name of each defendant in the judgment;  and
(3)  the volume and page or instrument number in the records in which the abstract is recorded.
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3527, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.  Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 668, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.