California Law (Last Updated: March 4, 2014) |
Code of Civil Procedure - CCP |
Part 3. OF SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS OF A CIVIL NATURE |
Title 11. SISTER STATE AND FOREIGN MONEY—JUDGMENTS |
Chapter 1. Sister State Money—Judgments |
Section 1710.20.
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(a) An application for entry of a judgment based on a sister state judgment shall be filed in a superior court.
(b) Subject to the power of the court to transfer proceedings under this chapter pursuant to Title 4 (commencing with Section 392) of Part 2, the proper county for the filing of an application is any of the following:
(1) The county in which any judgment debtor resides.
(2) If no judgment debtor is a resident, any county in this state.
(c) A case in which the sister state judgment amounts to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) or less is a limited civil case.
(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 784, Sec. 86. Effective January 1, 2003.)