{"data":{"id":"us-ca/ccp-1710.20","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"CCP § 1710.20","heading":"","body":"(a) An application for entry of a judgment based on a sister state judgment shall be filed in a superior court.\n(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:\n(1) The county in which any judgment debtor resides.\n(2) If no judgment debtor is a resident, any county in this state.\n(c) A case in which the sister state judgment amounts to thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000) or less is a limited civil case.","path":["Code of Civil Procedure - CCP","PART 3. OF SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS OF A CIVIL NATURE [1063. - 1822.60.]","TITLE 11. MONEY JUDGMENTS OF OTHER JURISDICTIONS [1710.10. - 1741.]","CHAPTER 1. Sister State Money Judgments [1710.10. - 1710.65.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"6450d62b27035dfd9deb382b9042de5096559e7cafd867b4e50de39d77c217c9","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/ccp-1710.15","next":"us-ca/ccp-1710.25"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}