Title 9: Enforcement of Judgments | Division 2: Enforcement of Money Judgments | Chapter 4: Exemptions | Article 1: General Provisions
California Code of Civil Procedure – 2026
§ 703.010
Except as otherwise provided by statute: (a) The exemptions provided by this chapter or by any other statute apply to all procedures for enforcement o…
§ 703.020
(a) The exemptions provided by this chapter apply only to property of a natural person.
§ 703.030
(a) An exemption for property that is described in this chapter or in any other statute as exempt may be claimed within the time and in the manner pre…
§ 703.040
A purported contractual or other prior waiver of the exemptions provided by this chapter or by any other statute, other than a waiver by failure to cl…
§ 703.050
(a) The determination whether property is exempt or the amount of an exemption shall be made by application of the exemption statutes in effect (1) at…
§ 703.060
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that generally persons who enter into contracts do not do so in reliance on an assumption that the exemptions i…
§ 703.070
Except as otherwise provided by statute: (a) The exemptions provided by this chapter or by any other statute apply to a judgment for child, family, or…
§ 703.080
(a) Subject to any limitation provided in the particular exemption, a fund that is exempt remains exempt to the extent that it can be traced into depo…
§ 703.090
If a judgment creditor has failed to oppose a claim of exemption within the time allowed by Section 703.
§ 703.100
(a) Subject to subdivision (b), the determination whether property is exempt shall be made under the circumstances existing at the earliest of the fol…
§ 703.110
If the judgment debtor is married: (a) The exemptions provided by this chapter or by any other statute apply to all property that is subject to enforc…
§ 703.115
In determining an exemption based upon the needs of the judgment debtor and the spouse and dependents of the judgment debtor or an exemption based upo…
§ 703.130
Pursuant to the authority of paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of Section 522 of Title 11 of the United States Code, the exemptions set forth in subsect…
§ 703.140
(a) In a case under Title 11 of the United States Code, all of the exemptions provided by this chapter, including the homestead exemption, other than …
§ 703.150
(a) On April 1, 2004, and at each three-year interval ending on April 1 thereafter, the dollar amounts of exemptions provided in subdivision (b) of Se…