California Code of Civil Procedure Section 1710.20

CA Civ Pro Code § 1710.20 (2017)  

(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.)

Last modified: October 25, 2018