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I'm not sure but maybe you can go to your state bar association and ask an attorney as you may have some legal recourse in small claims court if it has cost you financially.
The Rules of Civil Procedure require that a judgment creditor promptly file a notice of satisfaction with the court within a set period after receipt of satisfaction. That period varies by jurisdiction, but is almost invariably within a few weeks.
You should not be required to go through a motion to vacate in order to obtain compliance either the notice of satisfaction requirment.
I would send proof of satisfaction directly to the court and inform them that the judgment creditor is in noncompliance, and request that the court contact the judgment creditor.
While you’re waiting for all that, take your proof and send it to the credit bureaus to get it off the reports.
I had to go through this when I paid a judgment from when my car was repossessed- they never canceled it and I had moved out of state. I submitted a dispute to all three bureaus with proof of payment and it was gone before the attorneys office I paid had a chance to send me the proof in the mail that they canceled it with the court.