California Notice of Settlement — Form-CM 200

[Music] How does Keith Davidson and Albertson and Davidson today I'm going over the notice of settlement it's a form that you can use to notify the court that your matter has settled and these are important forms because there's a lot of things that the court is doing with your case behind the scenes that you may not realize especially as different hearings approach there's a whole process that the court goes through to prepare that case for a hearing and so when you settle your case it's very helpful for the court to know that the case has been settled so that they don't have to expend their resources trying to prepare your case for a hearing and plus it notifies the judge of the status of your case so let's walk through the form and we'll take a look we're going to start at the California Judicial Council forms as we always do just right there on Google and this is one of the case management forms so you just go to the case management section and there's not too many of the forms under this tab but the form we're going to be using is CM 200 the notice of settlement of entire case so this is the form it's actually quite simple but again it's it's very important for the court so you're going to start off by just putting your name or your attorney will put his or her name at the top here and then you're going to want to fill out your firm information and address and all that good stuff you want to make sure you put your phone number your email address so the court can notify you and you have to say who you're an attorney for so we'll use the fictional name of Nancy Smith and then you have to fill in the county that you're in so whatever county you're practicing in Los Angeles San Diego Orange County San Mateo San Francisco and on and on and make sure that you put the street address the mailing address if it's different from the street address especially the city zip and the branch name all of that you can find on the courts website and then you have to put the name of the petition petitioner or plaintiff so we'll use our fictional client and will say that the respondent was Robert Johnson and that way the court knows what case this is for we also would insert the case number over here so that we could file it in that case number and we want to reference the name of our judge in our department right on these two lines so this is not a dismissal of your case what this is it's a step that you're gonna take after your case settles before you ask for dismissal and again it's just to notify the court that the matter has settled so you have two options you could have an unconditional settlement meaning that the matter is settled everything's done and you don't have to wait any longer in which case a request for dismissal will be filed within 45 days after the day of the settlement and then you have to put the date of the settlement so if we say the date of the settlement was December 1st 2018 then 45 days after that January 15th or thereabout you have to file an actual dismissal the lawsuit if however there's conditions in the settlement then you'll click this box conditional and then the court wants to know a request for dismissal will be filed no later than what date so let's say you have to wait 90 days for payment and then after that time you'll have 45 days because once the settlement is done you'll have 45 days to dismiss the matter so you have to inform the court of that the court wants to know the date the initial pleading was filed so have you filed your lawsuit on March 1st let's say 2018 then you'd fill that in here and then the next scheduled hearing our appearance so there might be a status conference maybe there's a trial setting conference whatever it is you put the next hearing and then you have to put in the date the time and the department and again that's so that the court knows that this matter has settled and that they don't have to go through the work of trying to prepare for that hearing the same thing applies to the trial date so if you have a trial date in your case the court wants to know what was the date set for trial and the time and the department if you have no trial set then you can just click that box again that court needs to know are those dates freed up because you've settled your case does the court need to prepare for trial on their side whatever it is that is the case just fill that out there and then down here you're going to fill it out if you're an attorney you can just type in your own name and you just check the box attorney if you're a party without attorney you check that box real easy you sign it and then down here we have our proof of service so this is where you want to serve this form on all the other parties by first-class mail and so you'll just fill out the information we've covered a number of different proofs of service in our forum vault series and you can just go through it you have to list the name and address of everybody you can also attach an attachment which is what I always like to do and if that's if you're gonna do an attachment I like to type up here see attachment so that there's no confusion as to why this is blank you don't want the court thinking that you just filed a blank notice proof of service you want to be able to say that there was an attachment so once you have everybody listed on here that you're going to serve you're gonna mail them a copy of this the person who serves that this form is going to sign it at the bottom here and then this entire form is gonna be filed with the court in your case number once you do that then the court will be notified that the matter settled they're gonna thank you because they don't have to prepare for hearings or trial that now aren't going forward because your matter settled and it'll put everybody on notice that the matter is done and the next step in the final step will be filing your dismissals [Music] you.