1 COVER SHEET FOR "EMERGENCY" DEFAULT/UNCONTESTED JUDGMENT FC §2336 (old C.C. §4511) 2 3 In re Marriage of: CASE NO. 4 Petitioner: 5 and 6 Respondent: ________________________________/ 7 8 The above-entitled case is an emergency situation and the court is requested to expedite the 9 processing. (check as completed.) 10 ____ The emergency is : (attach documentation, if possible) ____________________________ 11 ________________________________________________________________________ 12 ________________________________________________________________________ 13 ____ There is a deadline date of ____________________ because _______________________ 14 ________________________________________________________________________ 15 ________________________________________________________________________ 16 The following forms are included herein. 17 ____ 1. Appearance, Stipulation, and Waivers form ____ 2. FC §2336 form 18 ____ 3. Notice of Entry of Judgment form ____ 4. Judgment form 19 ____ 5. Proof of Service of Declaration of Disclosure forms 20 I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is 21 true and correct. Date: _________________, at _________________, California. 22 23 ____________________________________ ATTORNEY FOR _____________________ 24 The above emergency situation is accepted and the clerk's office is requested to verify the 25 judgment dates so that the papers can be hand delivered immediately to the appropriate department. 26 27 ___________________________________ LEGAL TECHNICIAN 28 2002 © American LegalNet, Inc. 1 PROCEDURES FOR USE OF EMERGENCY DEFAULT/UNCONTESTED JUDGMENT 2 In those situations where a true emergency situation exists and there is a need to expedite the 3 default/uncontested judgment then the following procedures will be used. 4 5 6 7 8 1. Counsel for a party must fill out the cover sheet stating what the emergency and/or deadline is and the reason for such circumstance. (Please keep in mind the old adage that a failure to prepare on your part does not create an emergency on the court's part.) 2. All of the paperwork plus the coversheet will be submitted to the legal technicians by depositing it into the legal tech's pick up basket in each of the trial departments. After the legal techs have confirmed that, in fact, there is a legitimate emergency and indicated as appropriate on the cover sheet, you must retrieve the forms, hand carry them to the clerk's office so that they can verify the judgment dates. Upon verification of judgment dates and filing of those forms which can be at that point filed, you must return the whole package with the cover sheet to the relevant department. 9 3. The clerk's office will be instructed that in cases where the legal techs have approved the 10 emergency situation as indicated on the cover sheet to allow you to take the necessary forms back to the appropriate department. 11 4. There they will be processed as soon as possible under the circumstances which exist at that 12 time. (This does not mean they will drop everything to immediately deal with your papers -- they will deal with them with the same priority as other emergency matters that are being handled.) 13 Keep in mind that in the event an inordinate amount of defaults start needing emergency status, 14 the procedures will be discontinued when it starts interfering with the other work, such as domestic violence and ex parte applications, which the legal techs handle. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2002 © American LegalNet, Inc.