{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-696.2","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 12, § 12-696.2","heading":"Preparation, service, and filing of judgments, decrees","body":"and appealable orders.\n\nA. After the granting of a judgment, decree or appealable\n\norder, it shall be reduced to writing in conformance with Section\n\n696.3 of this title, signed by the court, and filed with the court\n\nclerk. The court may direct counsel for any party to the action to\n\nprepare a draft for the signature of the court, in which event, the\n\ncourt may prescribe procedures for the preparation and timely filing\n\nof the judgment, decree or appealable order, including, but not\n\nlimited to, the time within which it is to be submitted to the\n\ncourt. If a written judgment, decree or appealable order is not\n\nsubmitted to the court by the party directed to do so within the\n\ntime prescribed by the court, then any other party may reduce it to\n\nwriting and submit it to the court.\n\nB. A file-stamped copy of every judgment, decree, or appealable\n\norder shall be served upon all parties, including those parties who\n\nare in default for failure to appear in the action, by the counsel\n\nfor a party or party who prepared it, or by a person designated by\n\nthe trial court, promptly and no later than three (3) days after it\n\nis filed. The service shall be done in the manner provided in\n\nSection 2005 of this title for the service of papers, and a\n\ncertificate of service must be filed with the court clerk. If the\n\njudgment, decree or appealable order was prepared by the court, the\n\ncourt may direct a bailiff, court clerk or party to perform the\n\nservice and certificate of service required by this subsection. In\n\ncases in which a party has failed to appear in the action, it shall\n\nbe sufficient to mail a file-stamped copy of the judgment, decree or\n\nappealable order by first-class mail to the party’s last-known\n\naddress, or if the service of process was on a registered agent, to\n\nthe address of the registered agent. No mailing is required to a\n\nparty who has failed to appear in the action if that party was\n\nserved by publication.\n\nC. In any probate, guardianship, or conservatorship proceeding\n\ncommenced on or after October 1, 1996, where a party, heir, devisee,\n\nlegatee, or other interested party or representative of a party has\n\nreceived notice of a hearing which resulted in the issuance of a\n\njudgment, decree, or appealable order and did not file an entry of\n\nappearance, no further service of any judgment, decree, or\n\nappealable order shall be required to be sent to such party, heir,\n\ndevisee, legatee, or other interested party or representative of a\n\nparty, unless otherwise specifically required by law. No\n\ncertificate of service shall be required to be filed where no party,\n\nheir, devisee, legatee, or other interested party, or representative\n\nof a party has filed an entry of appearance.\n\nD. The filing with the court clerk of a written judgment,\n\ndecree or appealable order, prepared in conformance with Section\n\n696.3 of this title and signed by the court, shall be a\n\njurisdictional prerequisite to the commencement of an appeal. The\n\nfollowing shall not constitute a judgment, decree or appealable\n\norder: A minute entry; verdict; informal statement of the\n\nproceedings and relief awarded, including, but not limited to, a\n\nletter to a party or parties indicating the ruling or instructions\n\nfor preparing the judgment, decree or appealable order.\n\nE. A judgment, decree or appealable order, whether\n\ninterlocutory or final, shall not be enforceable in whole or in part\n\nunless or until it is signed by the court and filed; except that the\n\nadjudication of any issue shall be enforceable when pronounced by\n\nthe court in the following actions: divorce; separate maintenance;\n\nannulment; post-decree matrimonial proceedings; paternity; custody;\n\nadoption; termination of parental rights; mental health;\n\nguardianship; juvenile matters; habeas corpus proceedings; or\n\nproceedings for temporary restraining orders, temporary injunctions,\nt the\n\nadjudication of any issue shall be enforceable when pronounced by\n\nthe court in the following actions: divorce; separate maintenance;\n\nannulment; post-decree matrimonial proceedings; paternity; custody;\n\nadoption; termination of parental rights; mental health;\n\nguardianship; juvenile matters; habeas corpus proceedings; or\n\nproceedings for temporary restraining orders, temporary injunctions,\n\npermanent injunctions, conservatorship, probate proceedings, special\n\nexecutions in foreclosure actions, quiet title actions, partition\n\nproceedings or contempt citations. The time for appeal shall not\n\nbegin to run until a written judgment, decree or appealable order,\n\nprepared in conformance with Section 696.3 of this title, is filed\n\nwith the court clerk, regardless of whether the judgment, decree, or\n\nappealable order is effective when pronounced or when it is filed.\n\nF. The preparation of orders, decisions and the taking of\n\nappeals from the Office of Administrative Hearings: Child Support\n\nshall be governed by the provisions of Title 56 of the Oklahoma\n\nStatutes.\n\nG. The preparation of orders, decisions and awards and the\n\ntaking of appeals in workers' compensation cases shall be governed\n\nby the provisions of Title 85 of the Oklahoma Statutes.","path":["OK Code","Title 12"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os12.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"92555ba183809d66e0e3e62c6c5813c0c99a6e62750e91c6bc6c6dac58bfc14b","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-689","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-696.3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}