Orange — Small Claims - Request to Make Payments

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SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA Self-Help Services COUNTY OF ORANGE www.occourts.org/self-help

SMALL CLAIMS: REQUEST TO MAKE PAYMENTS

SELF-HELP FORM PACKET

SHC-SC-04 (Rev. 02/26/2026)

Self-Help Services can review your completed forms before you file them with the Court. To request review of your completed forms: • In person review: Central Justice Center or the Lamoreaux Justice Center • Virtual (remote) review: Any branch court, including the Costa Mesa Justice Complex. To File In Person: Central Justice Center 700 Civic Center Drive West Santa Ana, CA 92701 Civil Division, 1st floor, Room K-100

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SC-200-INFO What to Do After the Court Decides Your Small Claims Case

First, read the court's decisions on Notice of Entry of Judgment (either form SC-130 or form SC-200). It will tell you the court’s judgment in this case. Then read this form. It will help you protect or enforce your rights, whether you won or lost the case. Warning! You may lose important rights if you do not act within 30 days after the court handed or mailed you Notice of Entry of Judgment. If the court mailed Notice of Entry of Judgment, the date of mailing is on Clerk's Certificate of Mailing that came with the notice.

If the court did not award you any money on a claim that you filed…The court’s decision on your claim is normally final. You cannot appeal the decision on your own claim, but you may be allowed to ask the court to correct a mistake in the judgment.

If the court ordered you to pay money… If the court ordered the other side to pay you… You are the judgment debtor. The law requires you to pay You are the judgment creditor. You must collect yourthe judgment. You can: judgment. The court will not collect it for you. Some steps Pay the judgment creditor directly; you can take to collect your money are summarized below. For more information, go to selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/small- Pay the court (to do so, file form SC-145, Request to Pay claims/after-trial/if-you-win. Judgment to Court); or Important! The judgment debtor has 30 days after being Ask the court to let you make payments (to do so, file handed or mailed Notice of Entry of Judgment to appeal or form SC-220, Request to Make Payments). pay or ask the court to cancel or correct the judgment. You cannot take legal steps to collect the judgment during thisIf any payment is not made in full and on time, the judgment time.creditor may notify the court to cancel the payment plan and the entire unpaid balance will become due and collectible. Ask the judgment debtor to pay you the money. If the judgment debtor cannot afford to pay the judgment all atWarning! If you do not pay the judgment or file an once, consider offering to take payments. If your claim wasappeal or a motion to vacate (cancel) or correct the for possession of property, ask the judgment debtor tojudgment within 30 days after Notice of Entry of Judgment return the property to you.was handed or mailed to you, your wages, money, and property can be taken to pay the claim. You may also have If the judgment debtor does not pay, you can find out to pay interest. If your case involves an auto accident on a about the debtor's income or property that the sheriff can California highway, the Department of Motor Vehicles take to satisfy the judgment. (DMV) can suspend your driver's license. If the debtor does not pay within 30 days after the court After you pay the judgment in full, you can ask the clerk delivered or mailed Notice of Entry of Judgment, the judgment creditor to file a form saying the judgment is paid. debtor must send you form SC-133, Judgment Debtor's (See form SC-290, Acknowledgment of Satisfaction of Statement of Assets. This form will tell you what money Judgment.) If the judgment creditor does not do this, they and property the debtor has that may be used to pay the may have to pay you damages and a penalty. judgment. If you disagree with the judgment ordering you to pay If the debtor does not send you the completed form money and you went to the small claims trial, you can SC-133, you can file form SC-134, Application and Order appeal that decision. (You cannot appeal the decision on to Produce Statement of Assets and to Appear for your own claim.) To do so, file form SC-140, Notice of Examination. In this form, you can also ask the court to Appeal, within 30 days after Notice of Entry of Judgment award you your attorney fees, expenses, and other was handed or mailed to you. There will be a new trial in the appropriate relief. If Notice of Entry of Judgment says the superior court on all claims in the case. Each side will judgment includes an amount "concerning consumer present evidence again. This time, each side can have a debt," file form SC-136, Application and Order to Produce lawyer at the trial. Financial Statement or Appear for Examination— Consumer Debt, instead of form SC-134. (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 2)

Judicial Council of California, courts.ca.gov Rev. January 1, 2026, Optional Form What to Do After the Court SC-200-INFO, Page 1 of 2 Decides Your Small Claims Case

If the court ordered you to pay money… If the court ordered the other side to pay (continued) you… (continued)

If you disagree with the judgment ordering you to pay If the debtor does send you form SC-133, you can money, and you did not go to the trial, you can ask the still have the debtor come to court to answer court to vacate (cancel) the judgment. To do so, file form questions about income and property. To do so, file SC-135, Notice of Motion to Vacate Judgment and form EJ-125, Application and Order for Appearance and Declaration, within 30 days* after Notice of Entry of Examination. If Notice of Entry of Judgment says the Judgment was handed or mailed to you. If the court denies judgment includes an amount "concerning consumer your request, you have until 10 days from the date the debt," file form EJ-141, Application and Order to Appear notice of denial is mailed to file an appeal. for Examination—Consumer Debt, instead of form *Exception: If the claim against you was not properly EJ-125. served, you have 180 days from the date that you found out To obtain the judgment debtor’s financial records from (or should have found out) about the judgment against you another person or a company at a hearing, fill out form to file a request to cancel the judgment. SC-107, Small Claims Subpoena and Declaration, take it Unless you pay the judgment or file an appeal or a to the small claims court clerk to be issued, and then motion as discussed above, you must complete form have it served. SC-133, Judgment Debtor's Statement of Assets, and Once you know about the judgment debtor's income deliver it to the judgment creditor within 30 days after the and property, you can ask the sheriff to take that property clerk delivered or mailed Notice of Entry of Judgment. to pay you. (Property that may be taken includes wages, bank accounts, automobiles, business property, and rental Warning! If you do not deliver the completed form SC-133, income.) To do so, fill out and ask the court clerk to issue the court can order you to pay attorney fees and impose form EJ-130, Writ of Execution. Then, take the form to theother penalties. sheriff's office with a description of the debtor's property.

You can also put a lien on the judgment debtor's house
or other real estate. To do so, fill out and ask the court
clerk to issue form EJ-001, Abstract of Judgment—Civil and
Small Claims. Then, take or mail the Abstract to the county
recorder's office in the county where you think the debtor
owns real property. If the judgment debtor sells, refinances,
or buys real property in that county, your judgment should
be paid from the debtor's funds.

After the judgment has been paid in full, you must fill out
an Acknowledgment of Satisfaction of Judgment and file it
with the court clerk. If Abstract of Judgment—Civil and
Small Claims (form EJ-001) has not been recorded, you
may use form SC-130 or form SC-290. If an abstract has
been recorded, use form EJ-100.
Warning! If you do not file an Acknowledgment of
Satisfaction of Judgment, you may have to pay the
judgment debtor damages and a penalty.

You may need to pay fees to the court, the county recorder's office, or the sheriff for filing, issuing, and
recording papers and doing the other things discussed above. Sometimes, you can ask the court to order the
other side to repay you for these expenses.

Need help? For free help, contact your county’s
small claims advisor: ? [local info here]

Or visit selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/small-claims-advisor.

Rev. January 1, 2026 What to Do After the Court SC-200-INFO, Page 2 of 2 Decides Your Small Claims Case

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SC-220 Request to Make Payments Clerk stamps here when form is filed.

Read page 2 before you fill out this form. 1 I am asking for permission to pay my small claims judgment in payments.

My name is:

Mailing address:

Phone: Email (optional):

2 On (date): , the court made the decision (judgment) that: Fill in the court name and street address: Superior Court of California, County of I owe (total amount): $ To (name of party you must pay):

Mailing address:

Phone: Email (optional):
Fill in your case number and case name:

3 I am asking for permission to make payments, instead of paying the full Case Number: amount all at once, because (explain): If your answer will not fit in the space below, check this box and attach Case Name: your answer on a separate sheet of paper. Write “SC-220, Item 3” at the top.

4 I ask the court to allow me to make payments on the following terms (check and complete all that apply):

a. Payments of $ , on the day of each (month, week, other):
Starting (date): , until (date of final payment): ; amount of final payment: $
b. Other payment schedule (specify):

c. The total amount of payments is $ , which includes interest on the unpaid balance of the judgment.
The actual amount of that interest may be different if the payments are made late or early. (Attach a page that
shows how you calculated the interest and write “SC-220, Item 4c” at the top.)

d. The total amount of payments is the same as the judgment. If all payments are made in full and on time, no
interest will be owed on the judgment, and the judgment will be paid in full.

e. Other (specify):

Warning! If any payment is not made in full and on time, the judgment creditor may notify the court to
cancel the payment plan and the entire unpaid balance will become due and collectible.

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the information above is true and correct.

Date:

Type or print your name Sign here

Judicial Council of California, www.courts.ca.gov Rev. January 1, 2024, Optional Form Request to Make Payments Code of Civil Procedure, § 116.620, Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.2107 (Small Claims)

Payments in Small Claims Cases General Information

If the court ordered you to pay money, you can ask If the court ordered someone to pay you money, and the court for permission to make payments. Here’s how: that person has filed a Request to Make Payments: • Fill out form SC-220, Request to Make Payments. • If, after reading the Request, you agree with the Request, Fill out one form for each plaintiff or defendant you do not need to do anything. (judgment creditor) you want to make payments to. • If you do not agree with the Request or you want to • Fill out form EJ-165, Financial Statement. be paid interest, fill out and file form SC-221, Response to Request to Make Payments, within 10 days after the• File your completed forms with the small claims court clerk mailed the Request to you. (This date is on court clerk. the Clerk’s Certificate of Mailing.) If you do not do this, The court will mail all other plaintiffs and defendants the court may allow the person who owes you money in the case copies of your Request to Make Payments to make payments. And, you may lose your rights to and Financial Statement, and a blank form SC-221, collect interest on the judgment. Response to Request to Make Payments. To file your Response: The other parties will have 10 days to file a • Have your Response served on all other plaintiffs and Response. Then, the court will mail all plaintiffs and defendants in your case. (See form SC-112A, Proof of defendants in the case: Service By Mail.) • A decision on the Request to Make Payments or • File your Response and Proof of Service with the small claims court clerk.• A notice to go to a hearing.

Answers to Common Questions

When is the judgment due? When the court allows payments, the court often does not Unless the court orders otherwise, small claims judgments order any interest, as long as all payments are made in full are due immediately. If the judgment is not paid in full and on time. Unless the judgment creditor asks for interest within 30 days, the judgment creditor (party to whom the to be included in the order allowing payments, the money is owed) can take legal steps to collect any unpaid judgment creditor may lose any claims for interest. But if amount. (Collection may be postponed if an appeal or a the judgment debtor does not make full payments on time, request to vacate (cancel) or correct the judgment is filed.) interest can be ordered on the missed payment or the entire unpaid principal. When can the judgment debtor make payments? A party who was ordered to pay a small claims judgment How do I calculate interest? (judgment debtor) can ask the court for permission to If you are asking for interest or disagreeing with a request make payments. If the court agrees, the party who is owed for interest, you need to explain your interest calculation. money (judgment creditor) cannot take any other steps to Interest may be added to the full unpaid balance of the collect the money as long as the payments are made on judgment or only to payments that were not made on time. time. If payments are not made on time, the judgment To calculate interest, show the unpaid principal balance, creditor can ask the court to order that the remaining the dates and number of days you want the court to allow balance of the judgment is due and collectible. interest on that amount, and the total interest for that period. If payments were made, you will need to make Is interest added after the judgment? separate calculations for the reduced principal balance Interest is usually added to the unpaid amount of the after each payment. For more information on the applicable judgment from the date the judgment is entered until it is rate of interest and calculating the amount of interest, see paid in full. Interest can only be charged on the unpaid Information Sheet for Calculating Interest and Amount Owed amount of the judgment (the principal); interest cannot be on a Judgment (form MC-013-INFO). charged on any unpaid interest. If a partial payment is received, the money is applied first to unpaid interest and then to unpaid principal.

Need help?
For free help, contact your county’s small claims advisor: ? [local info here]
https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/small-claims-advisor

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WG-007/EJ-165

SHORT TITLE: LEVYING OFFICER FILE NO. COURT CASE NO.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT (Wage Garnishment—Enforcement of Judgment

NOTE: If you are married, this form must be signed by your spouse unless you and your spouse are living separate and apart. If this form is not signed by your spouse, check the applicable box on the reverse in item 9.

1. The following persons other than myself depend, in whole or in part, on me or my spouse for support: MONTHLY TAKE-HOME NAME AGE RELATIONSHIP TO ME INCOME & SOURCE

   a. Spouse

   b.

   c.

   d.

   e.

2. My monthly income

   a. My gross monthly pay is:.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2a. $

   b. My payroll deductions are (specify purpose and amount):

   (1 ) Federal and state withholding, FICA, and SDI. . . . . . . . . $
   (2) $

   (3) $
   (4) $

   My TOTAL payroll deduction amount is (add (1) through (4)): ................................................ b. $

   c. My monthly take-home pay is (a minus b): .................................................................................. c. $

   d. Other money I get each month from (specify source): is ......................... d. $ e. TOTAL MONTHLY INCOME (c plus d) .................................................................................. e. $

3. I, my spouse, and my other dependents own the following property:

a. Cash .......................................................................................................................................... 3a. $
b. Checking, savings, and credit union accounts (list banks):
(1) $

(2) $

(3) $ b. $

c. Cars, other vehicles, and boat equity (list make, year of each):
(1) $

(2) $

(3) $ c. $

d. Real estate equity ...................................................................................................................... d. $

e. Other personal property (jewelry, furniture, furs, stocks, bonds, etc.) (list separately):

e. $

Form Adopted by §§ 706.124, 703.530 the Judicial Council FINANCIAL STATEMENT Code of Civil Procedure, of California www.courtinfo.ca.gov WG-007/EJ-165 [Rev. January 1, 2007] (Wage Garnishment—Enforcement of Judgment)

WG-007/EJ-165 SHORT TITLE: LEVYING OFFICER FILE NO. COURT CASE NO.

4. The monthly expenses for me, my spouse, and my other dependents a. Rent or house payment and maintenance ................................................................................. 4 a. $ b. Food and household supplies .................................................................................................... b. $ c. Utilities and telephone ............................................................................................................... c. $ d. Clothing ...................................................................................................................................... d. $ e. Medical and dental payments ..................................................................................................... e. $ f. Insurance (life, health, accident, etc.) ........................................................................................ f. $ g. School, child care ....................................................................................................................... g. $ h. Child, spousal support (prior marriage) ...................................................................................... h. $ I. Transportation & auto expenses (insurance, gas, repair) (list car payments in item 5) .............. i. $ j. Installment payments (insert total and itemize below in item 5) .................................................. j. $ k. Laundry and cleaning ................................................................................................................. k. $ l. Entertainment ............................................................................................................................. l. $ m. Other (specify):

   m. $

   n. TOTAL MONTHLY EXPENSES (add a through m): .................................................................... n. $

5. I, my spouse, and my other dependents owe the following debts: OWED BY

CREDITOR'S NAME FOR MO. PAYMENTS BALANCE OWED (State person's name)

6. Other facts which support this Claim of Exemption (i.e., unusual medical needs, school tuition, expenses for recent family emergencies, or other unusual expenses to help your creditor and the judge understand your budget) (describe): (If more space is needed, attach page labeled Attachment 6.)

7. An earnings withholding order is now in effect with respect to my earnings or those of my spouse or dependents named in item 1 (specify each person's name and monthly amount):

8. A wage assignment for support is now in effect with respect to my earnings or those of my spouse or dependents named in item 1 (specify each person's name and monthly amount):

9. My spouse has signed below.

   I have no spouse.

   My spouse and I are living separate and apart.

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct.

Date:

(TYPE OR PRINT NAME) (SIGNATURE)

(TYPE OR PRINT NAME OF SPOUSE) (SIGNATURE OF SPOUSE)

WG-007/EJ-165 [Rev. January 1, 2007] FINANCIAL STATEMENT Page 2 of 2 (Wage Garnishment—Enforcement of Judgment)