Cal. Code of Civil Procedure § 1710.20 : Sister State And Foreign Money-Judgments — California Code Of Civil Procedure — Sister State Money-Judgments — Filing application; proper county Date: 1 Aug 2016 TEXT PDF Current through the 2016 Legislative Session (a) An application for entry of a judgment based on a sister state judgment shall be filed in a superior court. (b) Subject to the power of the court to transfer proceedings under this chapter pursuant to Title 4 (commencing with Section 392) of Part 2, the proper county for the filing of an application is any of the following: (1) The county in which any judgment debtor resides. (2) If no judgment debtor is a resident, any county in this state. (c) A case in which the sister state judgment amounts to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) or less is a limited civil case. Ca. Civ. Proc. Code § 1710.20 Amended by Stats 2002 ch 784 (SB 1316),s 86, eff. 1/1/2003.