§ 1710.20 Filing of application; place

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§ 1710.20. Filing of application; place

    (a) An application for entry of a judgment based on a sister state judgment shall be filed in a superior court.

    (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:

        (1) The county in which any judgment debtor resides.

        (2) If no judgment debtor is a resident, any county in this state.

    (c) A case in which the sister state judgment amounts to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) or less is a limited civil case.

    Chapter 1 was added by Stats.1974, c. 211, p. 405, § 3.