When must a California clerk mail trial notice?

The trial date, notice sender and actual mailing method

If the clerk did not serve notice as required, subsection (b) permits ordinary party mailing at least fifteen days before trial. The preset lacks the sender and proceeding inputs.

Responsible actor. The court clerk mailing trial notice, or a party where the clerk did not serve it as required. Establish the notice sender, proceeding, actual mailing and trial date. Compare the required mailing with subsection (a)’s proof of notice. Only the disclosed component is supported. Additional actual closures, altered orders and excluded service methods require separate review.

1. The trial date, notice sender and actual mailing method
2. If the clerk did not serve notice as required, subsection (b) permits ordinary party mailing at least fifteen days before trial. The preset lacks the sender and proceeding inputs.
3. Resolve the procedural comparisons described here before selecting an applicable clock. This page supplies no computed or paid date.
4. Preserve the clerk certificate or party affidavit or certificate and the actual trial setting. Establish the relevant notice branch before proceeding without the adverse party.

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 ordinary trial notice is mailed by the clerk, another by a party after clerk nonservice, and a third concerns detainer. The section states twenty-, fifteen- and ten-day mailing branches.

The existing flagged preset lacks the sender and proceeding comparison and does not establish subsection (a)’s notice proof. No computed or paid mailing date is published.

Detainer mailing

The stated detainer mailing period is at least ten days, whether the notice is mailed by the clerk or the identified party. CCP 1013 does not extend that detainer notice requirement.

Proof in absence

Subsection (a) separately requires proof of the applicable notice before proceeding with a factual trial in the adverse party’s absence.

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 the notice sender, proceeding, actual mailing and trial date. Compare the required mailing with subsection (a)’s proof of notice. Only the disclosed component is supported. Additional actual closures, altered orders and excluded service methods require separate review.
• The existing flagged preset lacks the sender and proceeding comparison and does not establish subsection (a)’s notice proof. No computed or paid mailing date is published.

• The trial date, notice sender and actual mailing method
• If the clerk did not serve notice as required, subsection (b) permits ordinary party mailing at least fifteen days before trial. The preset lacks the sender and proceeding inputs.
• The stated detainer mailing period is at least ten days, whether the notice is mailed by the clerk or the identified party. CCP 1013 does not extend that detainer notice requirement.
• Subsection (a) separately requires proof of the applicable notice before proceeding with a factual trial in the adverse party’s absence.
• Preserve the clerk certificate or party affidavit or certificate and the actual trial setting. Establish the relevant notice branch before proceeding without the adverse party.
• 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.