A dwelling in which an owner or spouse of an owner resides may be selected as a declared homestead pursuant to this article by recording a homestead declaration in the office of the county recorder of the county where the dwelling is located. From and after the time of recording, the dwelling is a declared homestead for the purposes of this article.
Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 704.920
Declared Homesteads
Known as the Enforcement of Judgments Law
The act spans §§ 680–724 (467 sections).
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Morgan v. Federal Deposit Insurance (In Re Morgan) (1993)
Most recently applied in David Goodrich v. Rudy Fuentes (April 2017)
Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1364, Sec. 2
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.