There is a hearsay exception for judgments as proof of matters of personal, family or general history, or boundaries, essential to the judgment, if the same(?) would be provable by evidence of reputation.

Williamson v. United States, 512 U.S. 594, pin? (1994).A statement falls within the federal hearsay exception for statements against interest only if the statement at the time of its making so far contrary to the declarant's pecuniary or proprietary interest, or so far tended to subject the declarant to civil or criminal liability, or to render invalid a claim by the declarant against another, that a reasonable person in the declarant's position would not have made the statement unless believing it to be true.

United States v. $125,938.62 Proceeds of Certificates of Deposit, 537 F.3d 1287, 1292 (11th Cir. 2008) (holding, in government's civil forfeiture action involving funds stolen from the Nicaraguan treasury, that evidence of Nicaraguan President's judgment of....There is a hearsay exception for evidence of a final judgment, entered after a trial or upon a plea of guilty (but not upon a plea of nolo contendere), adjudging a person guilty of a crime punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year, to prove any fact essential to sustain the judgment, but not including, when offered by the Government in a criminal prosecution for purposes other than impeachment, judgments against persons other than the accused.

Fed. R. Evid. 404 advisory committee's note ("The argument is made that circumstantial use of character ought to be allowed in civil cases to the same extent as in criminal cases, i.e. evidence of good (nonprejudicial) character would be admissible in the first instance, subject to rebuttal by evidence of bad character. ... The difficulty...The prohibition in Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b)'s prohibition against the use of other crimes, wrongs, or acts to show disposition, or character, to show conduct in accordance with disposition applies in civil actions as well as in criminal actions.