Adkisson's CALIFORNIA ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS LAW Home This website considers the primary tool for judgment enforcement in California, which is the Enforcement of Judgments Law (EJL), as found at CCP §§ 680.010-724.260, and ancillary California laws that affect the collection of judgments in the Golden State. The EJL provides a comprehensive statutory framework for judgment enforcement in California, and is perhaps the most comprehensive such law among all the states. The EJL is supplemented by an abundance of decisional law on its most important provisions, as well as by numerous official Judicial Council Forms. Other California law supports the EJL, most notably the California Uniform Voidable Transactions Act ("CUVTA", pronounced "Coo-Vee-Tah"), and various Probate Code provisions relating to spendthrift, revocable, and self-settled trusts. The creator of this website is Jay Adkisson, an attorney who is admitted to practice law in California (as well as Arizona, Nevada, Oklahoma and Texas), and whose practice includes primarily acting as creditors' rights counsel in judgment enforcement actions, with the occasional dalliance on behalf of debtors in defending such actions. Jay's exploits in chasing multi-million judgments in California have the subject of articles, most notably The Seattle Stranger, The Great West Coast Newspaper War (March 18, 2010), and California Lawyer, Chasing the Money (July, 2010). Jay was graduated with honors by the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1988, where he was a member of the Oklahoma Law Review, and, inter alia, served as an American Bar Association Section Advisors to the Uniform Law Commission's drafting committees for the Uniform Voidable Transactions Act (2014), the Uniform Limited Liability Company Protected Series Act (2017), and the Registration of Foreign Judgments to Harmonize the Law of Canada and the United States (in progress). Jay also writes the Wealth Conservation blog for Forbes.com and is an Honorary Member of the California Association of Judgment Professionals. Jay routinely deals with multi-state judgment enforcement litigation in the Southwest, i.e., throughout the states of California, Nevada and Arizona. ARTICLES 2016.4.30 … 529 Savings Accounts Not Exempt In California Under O'Brien 2015.12.28 ... The California Private Retirement Plan: Separating Fact From Fiction QUICK LINKS TO STATUTES AND MORE TITLE 9. ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS 680.010-724.260 DIVISION 1. DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL PROVISIONS 680.010-694.090 CHAPTER 1. Short Title and Definitions 680.010-680.380 CHAPTER 2. General Provisions 681.010-681.050 CHAPTER 3. Period for Enforcement and Renewal of Judgments 683.010-683.320 ARTICLE 1. Period for Enforcement of Judgments 683.010-683.050 ARTICLE 2. Renewal of Judgments 683.110-683.220 ARTICLE 3. Application of Chapter 683.310-683.320 CHAPTER 4. Manner of Service of Writs, Notices, and Other Papers 684.010-684.310 ARTICLE 1. Service on Attorney of Creditor or Debtor 684.010-684.050 ARTICLE 2. Manner of Service Generally 684.110-684.140 ARTICLE 3. Proof of Service 684.210-684.220 ARTICLE 4. Application of Chapter 684.310 CHAPTER 5. Interest and Costs 685.010-685.110 CHAPTER 6. Enforcement After Death of Judgment Creditor or Judgment Debtor 686.010-686.020 CHAPTER 7. Levying Officers 687.010-687.050 CHAPTER 8. Enforcement of State Tax Liability 688.010-688.110 ARTICLE 1. Enforcement Pursuant to Warrant or Notice of Levy 688.010-688.050 ARTICLE 2. Enforcement of Judgment for Taxes 688.110 CHAPTER 9. Enforcement of Support Judgments 689.010-689.050 CHAPTER 10. Enforcement of Judgments by Labor Commissioner 690.020-690.050 CHAPTER 20. Transitional Provisions 694.010-694.090 DIVISION 2. ENFORCEMENT OF MONEY JUDGMENTS 695.010-709.030 CHAPTER 1. General Provisions 695.010-695.221 ARTICLE 1. Property Subject to Enforcement of Money Judgment 695.010-695.070 ARTICLE 2. Amount to Satisfy Money Judgment 695.210-695.221 CHAPTER 2. Liens 697.010-697.920 ARTICLE 1. General Provisions 697.010-697.060 ARTICLE 2. Judgment Lien on Real Property 697.310-697.410 ARTICLE 3. Judgment Lien on Personal Property 697.510-697.670 ARTICLE 4. Execution Lien 697.710-697.750 ARTICLE 5. Other Liens Created by Enforcement Process 697.910-697.920 CHAPTER 3. Execution 699.010-701.830 ARTICLE 1. General Provisions 699.010-699.090 ARTICLE 2. Writ of Execution and Notice of Levy 699.510-699.560 ARTICLE 3. Property Subject to Execution 699.710-699.720 ARTICLE 4. Methods of Levy 700.010-700.200 ARTICLE 5. Duties and Liabilities of Third Persons After Levy 701.010-701.070 ARTICLE 6. Sale and Collection 701.510-701.680 ARTICLE 7. Distribution of Proceeds of Sale or Collection 701.810-701.830 CHAPTER 4. Exemptions 703.010-704.995 ARTICLE 1. General Provisions 703.010-703.150 ARTICLE 2. Procedure for Claiming Exemptions After Levy 703.510-703.610 ARTICLE 3. Exempt Property 704.010-704.210 ARTICLE 4. Homestead Exemption 704.710-704.850 ARTICLE 5. Declared Homesteads 704.910-704.995 CHAPTER 5. Wage Garnishment 706.010-706.154 ARTICLE 1. Short Title; Definitions 706.010-706.011 ARTICLE 2. General Provisions 706.020-706.034 ARTICLE 3. Restrictions on Earnings Withholding 706.050-706.052 ARTICLE 4. Earnings Withholding Order for Taxes 706.070-706.084 ARTICLE 5. Procedure for Earnings Withholding Orders and Exemption Claims 706.100-706.109 ARTICLE 6. Forms; Employer’s Instructions 706.120-706.129 ARTICLE 7. Administration and Enforcement 706.151-706.154 CHAPTER 6. Miscellaneous Creditors’ Remedies 708.010-709.030 ARTICLE 1. Written Interrogatories to Judgment Debtor 708.010-708.030 ARTICLE 2. Examination Proceedings 708.110-708.205 ARTICLE 3. Creditor’s Suit 708.210-708.290 ARTICLE 4. Charging Orders 708.310-708.320 ARTICLE 5. Lien in Pending Action or Proceeding 708.410-708.480 ARTICLE 6. Assignment Order 708.510-708.560 ARTICLE 7. Receiver to Enforce Judgment 708.610-708.630 ARTICLE 8. Collection of Judgment Where Judgment Debtor Is Creditor of Public Entity 708.710-708.795 ARTICLE 9. Enforcement Against Franchise 708.910-708.930 ARTICLE 10. Other Enforcement Procedures 709.010-709.030 DIVISION 3. ENFORCEMENT OF NONMONEY JUDGMENTS 712.010-717.010 CHAPTER 1. General Provisions 712.010-712.070 CHAPTER 2. Judgment for Possession of Personal Property 714.010-714.030 CHAPTER 3. Judgment for Possession of Real Property 715.010-715.050 CHAPTER 4. Judgment for Sale of Property 716.010-716.030 CHAPTER 5. Other Judgments 717.010 DIVISION 4. THIRD-PARTY CLAIMS AND RELATED PROCEDURES 720.010-720.800 CHAPTER 1. Definitions 720.010-720.030 CHAPTER 2. Third-Party Claims of Ownership and Possession 720.110-720.170 CHAPTER 3. Third-Party Claim of Security Interest or Lien 720.210-720.290 CHAPTER 4. Hearing on Third-Party Claim 720.310-720.430 CHAPTER 5. Creditor’s Demand for Third-Party Claim by Secured Party or Lienholder 720.510-720.550 CHAPTER 6. Third-Party Undertaking to Release Property 720.610-720.660 CHAPTER 7. Undertakings 720.710-720.800 DIVISION 5. SATISFACTION OF JUDGMENT 724.010-724.260 CHAPTER 1. Satisfaction of Judgment 724.010-724.100 CHAPTER 2. Acknowledgment of Partial Satisfaction of Judgment 724.110-724.120 CHAPTER 3. Acknowledgment of Satisfaction of Matured Installments Under Installment Judgment 724.210-724.260 = = = = = OTHER CALIFORNIA LAW OF NOTE IN JUDGMENT ENFORCEMENT CIVIL PROCEDURE Form of Judgments ~ CCP 664-674 Amending Judgments ~ CCP 187 Lis Pendens ~ CCP 405 Sister State Judgments ~ CCP 1710.10-1710.65 Foreign Country Judgments ~ CCP 1713-1724 Mortgage Foreclosures ~ CCP 725a-730.5 Assignment for Benefit of Creditors ~ CCP 1800-1802 TRANSFERS IN DEFRAUD OF CREDITORS California Uniform Voidable Transactions Act ~ Civil Code 3439.01-14 Conveyance Of Personal Property Without Delivery ~ Civil Code 3440-3440.09 Undertaking In Voidable Transaction Action ~ Civil Code 3445-3449 PROBATE CODE Protection of Beneficial Interests (Spendthrift Protection) ~ Probate Code 15300-15309 Revocable and Self-Settled Trusts ~ Probate Code 18200 and 18201 Search California Judicial Council Forms Selected Opinions OTHER INFORMATIONAL WEBSITES BY JAY ADKISSON Jay Adkisson - More about Jay D. 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