Form FL-165: Request to Enter Default (Family Law—Uniform Parentage)
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Form FL-165 is the Request to Enter Default (Family Law—Uniform Parentage) adopted for mandatory use by the Judicial Council of California. You file it when the respondent has not answered the petition within the time allowed: it asks the clerk to enter their default, records whether the financial and property declarations are attached, states how a copy was mailed to the respondent, lists any costs claimed, and carries the declaration of nonmilitary status that federal and California law require before a default judgment can be entered.
When nobody responded to your California petition, FL-165 is the next step, and JustFill turns the official two-page Judicial Council PDF into a fillable form in your browser. It rests on Code of Civil Procedure sections 585 and 587 and Family Code sections 2330.5 and 2335.5. Item 1 is the request itself. Item 2 records whether an Income and Expense Declaration (form FL-150) or Financial Statement (Simplified) (form FL-155) is attached. Item 3 does the same for the Property Declaration (form FL-160), with six reasons you may check if it is not. Item 4 is your declaration about mailing. Item 5 is the memorandum of costs. Item 6 is the nonmilitary declaration — the part people most often get wrong.
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A direct request to the clerk to enter the default of the respondent who has failed to respond to the petition.
Whether a completed Income and Expense Declaration (form FL-150) or Financial Statement (Simplified) (form FL-155) is attached or is not attached.
Whether a completed Property Declaration (form FL-160) is attached. If it is not, you check at least one of six stated reasons: no changes since the previous filing; the issues are covered by a written agreement; there are no support or fee issues for the court to decide; the petition does not request money, property, costs or fees; there are no community property division issues; or the action is to establish a parental relationship.
Either that no mailing is required because service was by publication or posting and the respondent’s address remains unknown, or that a copy of this request with attachments and a stamped envelope was given to the clerk, addressed to the respondent’s attorney or last known address.
Costs and disbursements either waived, or itemised: clerk’s fees, process server’s fees and other specified items, with a total. Signed under penalty of perjury by the person claiming them.
Required for a judgment. You state the respondent is not in U.S. military service as defined by the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C. § 3911(2)) or California Military and Veterans Code sections 400 and 402(f), and check how you know: an official search result, regular communication, a recent conversation, a discharge date, incarceration, or another stated reason.
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Form FL-150: Income and Expense Declaration
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