What notice permits trial in an adverse party’s absence?

The actual trial and the adverse party’s receipt or statutory notice circumstances

Fifteen days of notice under subsection (a) differs from the clerk’s mailing requirement and the separate detainer rules in subsection (b).

Responsible actor. The party seeking to proceed at trial without the adverse party. Establish actual notice, the factual issue, the notice sender and method, the trial setting and whether the action is unlawful detainer. Only the disclosed component is supported. Additional actual closures, altered orders and excluded service methods require separate review.

1. The actual trial and the adverse party’s receipt or statutory notice circumstances
2. Fifteen days of notice under subsection (a) differs from the clerk’s mailing requirement and the separate detainer rules in subsection (b).
3. Resolve the procedural comparisons described here before selecting an applicable clock. This page supplies no computed or paid date.
4. Provide proof satisfactory to the court of the required notice, preserve the mailing certificate or other competent proof, and identify any good-cause court direction.

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 mails ordinary trial notice and a party supplies notice after the clerk did not do so. Their statutory mailing requirements differ from proof of fifteen days’ actual notice.

The preset does not distinguish actual adverse-party notice from clerk mailing, party mailing or detainer notice. No single computed or paid trial-notice date is published.

Clerk and party mailing

Subsection (b) states at least twenty days for ordinary clerk mailing and at least fifteen days for party mailing if the clerk did not serve the required notice.

Unlawful detainer

Subsection (a) uses five days’ notice for the described detainer trial, while subsection (b) states ten days for mailing.

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 actual notice, the factual issue, the notice sender and method, the trial setting and whether the action is unlawful detainer. Only the disclosed component is supported. Additional actual closures, altered orders and excluded service methods require separate review.
• The preset does not distinguish actual adverse-party notice from clerk mailing, party mailing or detainer notice. No single computed or paid trial-notice date is published.

• The actual trial and the adverse party’s receipt or statutory notice circumstances
• Fifteen days of notice under subsection (a) differs from the clerk’s mailing requirement and the separate detainer rules in subsection (b).
• Subsection (b) states at least twenty days for ordinary clerk mailing and at least fifteen days for party mailing if the clerk did not serve the required notice.
• Subsection (a) uses five days’ notice for the described detainer trial, while subsection (b) states ten days for mailing.
• Provide proof satisfactory to the court of the required notice, preserve the mailing certificate or other competent proof, and identify any good-cause court direction.
• 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.