When must a California judgment renewal application be filed?

The applicable enforceability expiry and actual renewal history

CCP 683.110(b) bars renewal within five years after a previous renewal. Subsection (c) and CCP 683.120(c) impose special single-renewal conditions.

Responsible actor. The judgment creditor applying for renewal. Identify the judgment, enforceability period, prior renewals, debt category and installments. The ten-year anniversary is not itself a verified last filing date. Only the disclosed component is supported. Additional actual closures, altered orders and excluded service methods require separate review.

1. The applicable enforceability expiry and actual renewal history
2. CCP 683.110(b) bars renewal within five years after a previous renewal. Subsection (c) and CCP 683.120(c) impose special single-renewal conditions.
3. Resolve the procedural comparisons described here before selecting an applicable clock. This page supplies no computed or paid date.
4. File the qualifying renewal application in the court where judgment was entered before the controlling expiry, satisfying the applicable renewal eligibility restrictions.

CCP 12 excludes the triggering day for ordinary day periods. CCP 12a supplies the final judicial-holiday adjustment, including Saturdays and the CCP 135 holidays. CCP 12b addresses qualifying whole-day office closures. Court-day periods exclude intermediate Saturdays, Sundays and judicial holidays. Calendar-day periods include intermediate closed days. Rule 1.11 supplies Friday observance of a Saturday judicial holiday and Monday observance of a Sunday judicial holiday. The calendar includes Lincoln Day, March 31, Juneteenth, Native American Day and Thanksgiving Friday. It excludes Columbus Day and Good Friday as ordinary full judicial holidays. The observed New Year holiday on December 31, 2027 is confirmed in the county schedule. Actual additional closures require separate evidence.

These base components do not add mail, electronic, fax, express or overnight service time. CCP 1013 and 1010.6 identify eligible additions, service conditions and express exceptions. CCP 1005 supplies its own motion-delivery provisions and excludes CCP 1013 for its identified notices. New-trial and CCP 663a intention-notice filings do not receive the stated mail or electronic additions. Establish the actual service method and governing procedure before applying any addition. A summons-service completion event is not determined by the general document-service addition.

The official sections were reviewed, including the retained 2026 and operative-2027 CCP 473 and 415.20 editions. Publication coverage for day and court-day components begins January 1, 2026, or a later expressly stated section effective date. Year components begin no earlier than January 1, 2021, or the section’s later stated effective date, and assume the current reviewed branch applies. These are software coverage boundaries, not findings that an actual act is late. Displayed final dates are confined to the independently reviewed 2026 and 2027 judicial calendar. Closed backward base boundaries and closed minimum-deposition boundaries receive no computed or paid date because their exact adjustment is not implemented. Earlier editions, emergency measures, tolling, different service methods and actual additional closures require separate review.

Assume one judgment is an ordinary lump-sum judgment and another satisfies the restricted personal-debt category after a prior renewal. An identical ten-year addition cannot establish both filing opportunities.

The preset returns a ten-year anniversary without resolving the before-expiry condition, special renewal category or installments. No computed or paid final renewal date is published.

Single five-year renewal

Specified medical-expense and personal-debt judgments can receive only the identified single five-year renewal. The statute bars the stated application where renewal occurred on or before December 31, 2022.

Installments

CCP 683.130(b) provides different treatment for past-due installments and prior renewal amounts.

Service methods and distinct statutory additions

These base components do not add mail, electronic, fax, express or overnight service time. CCP 1013 and 1010.6 identify eligible additions, service conditions and express exceptions. CCP 1005 supplies its own motion-delivery provisions and excludes CCP 1013 for its identified notices. New-trial and CCP 663a intention-notice filings do not receive the stated mail or electronic additions. Establish the actual service method and governing procedure before applying any addition. A summons-service completion event is not determined by the general document-service addition.

Edition and calendar coverage

The official sections were reviewed, including the retained 2026 and operative-2027 CCP 473 and 415.20 editions. Publication coverage for day and court-day components begins January 1, 2026, or a later expressly stated section effective date. Year components begin no earlier than January 1, 2021, or the section’s later stated effective date, and assume the current reviewed branch applies. These are software coverage boundaries, not findings that an actual act is late. Displayed final dates are confined to the independently reviewed 2026 and 2027 judicial calendar. Closed backward base boundaries and closed minimum-deposition boundaries receive no computed or paid date because their exact adjustment is not implemented. Earlier editions, emergency measures, tolling, different service methods and actual additional closures require separate review.

• Identify the judgment, enforceability period, prior renewals, debt category and installments. The ten-year anniversary is not itself a verified last filing date. Only the disclosed component is supported. Additional actual closures, altered orders and excluded service methods require separate review.
• The preset returns a ten-year anniversary without resolving the before-expiry condition, special renewal category or installments. No computed or paid final renewal date is published.

• The applicable enforceability expiry and actual renewal history
• CCP 683.110(b) bars renewal within five years after a previous renewal. Subsection (c) and CCP 683.120(c) impose special single-renewal conditions.
• Specified medical-expense and personal-debt judgments can receive only the identified single five-year renewal. The statute bars the stated application where renewal occurred on or before December 31, 2022.
• CCP 683.130(b) provides different treatment for past-due installments and prior renewal amounts.
• File the qualifying renewal application in the court where judgment was entered before the controlling expiry, satisfying the applicable renewal eligibility restrictions.
• Where filing is required, distinguish accepted filing from service. CCP 1010.6(e)(3) gives the stated same-court-day treatment to qualifying electronic court receipt between 12:00 a.m. and 11:59:59 p.m.; noncourt-day receipt is deemed on the next court day. Its confirmation and rejection provisions still matter. Preserve the accepted filing confirmation, effective service evidence and applicable local requirements. Court-office paper availability and case-specific orders require separate review. This does not turn a service-only response, court determination, completed discovery or trial commencement into a filing-only act.