California Code of Civil Procedure ARTICLE 4 - Parties

• Section 872.510.
  The plaintiff shall join as defendants in the action all persons having or claiming interests of record or actually known to the plaintiff or reasonably...
• Section 872.520.
  (a) If the name of a person described in Section 872.510 is not known to the plaintiff, the plaintiff shall so state in the complaint and...
• Section 872.530.
  (a) If a person described in Section 872.510 is dead and the plaintiff knows of a personal representative, the plaintiff shall join such personal representative as...
• Section 872.540.
  Where property is subject to a lease, community lease, unit agreement, or other pooling arrangement with respect to oil or gas or both, the plaintiff...
• Section 872.550.
  Where partition is sought as to all interests in the property, the plaintiff may join as defendants “all persons unknown claiming any interest in the...

Last modified: October 22, 2018