When must a California judgment-vacatur intention notice be filed?

Judgment entry and the qualifying clerk-mailing and party-service events

This statute uses clerk mailing, unlike CCP 659’s clerk-service wording. Preserve the actual event named in the applicable statute.

Responsible actor. The party intending to move to set aside and vacate the judgment under CCP 663. Establish judgment entry, qualifying clerk mailing under CCP 664.5 and party service of written notice of entry. Compare the applicable periods. Only the disclosed component is supported. Additional actual closures, altered orders and excluded service methods require separate review.

1. Judgment entry and the qualifying clerk-mailing and party-service events
2. This statute uses clerk mailing, unlike CCP 659’s clerk-service wording. Preserve the actual event named in the applicable statute.
3. Resolve the procedural comparisons described here before selecting an applicable clock. This page supplies no computed or paid date.
4. File the intention notice with the clerk and serve each adverse party, designating the motion grounds and particulars in which the legal basis is inconsistent or erroneous.

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 a clerk mailing occurs near the judgment’s 180-day anniversary. The fifteen-day mailing limb can extend beyond the outer limb, so the earlier comparison matters.

The preset does not compare judgment entry with all qualifying mailing and service events. No single computed or paid intention-notice date is published.

Earliest comparison

The notice is due within the earliest specified fifteen-day notice interval or 180-day judgment-entry interval.

Mail does not extend

Subsection (c) excludes CCP 1013 mail additions to the intention-notice period. CCP 1010.6 also excludes the electronic-service addition for this filing.

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.

• Establish judgment entry, qualifying clerk mailing under CCP 664.5 and party service of written notice of entry. Compare the applicable periods. Only the disclosed component is supported. Additional actual closures, altered orders and excluded service methods require separate review.
• The preset does not compare judgment entry with all qualifying mailing and service events. No single computed or paid intention-notice date is published.

• Judgment entry and the qualifying clerk-mailing and party-service events
• This statute uses clerk mailing, unlike CCP 659’s clerk-service wording. Preserve the actual event named in the applicable statute.
• The notice is due within the earliest specified fifteen-day notice interval or 180-day judgment-entry interval.
• Subsection (c) excludes CCP 1013 mail additions to the intention-notice period. CCP 1010.6 also excludes the electronic-service addition for this filing.
• File the intention notice with the clerk and serve each adverse party, designating the motion grounds and particulars in which the legal basis is inconsistent or erroneous.
• 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.