Jurisdiction in Action
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Glanzner v. State, Department of Social Services, Division of Child Support Enforcement (1992)
Most recently applied in Lauren Casola v. Dexcom, Inc. (April 2024)
Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1610.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) Except as otherwise provided by statute, the court in which an action is pending has jurisdiction over a party from the time summons is served on him as provided by Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 413.10). A general appearance by a party is equivalent to personal service of summons on such party.
(b) Jurisdiction of the court over the parties and the subject matter of an action continues throughout subsequent proceedings in the action.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.