Note: All downloadable forms have been converted to the “.pdf” file format. To view and print this file format you must have the client software product “Adobe Acrobat Reader”. This software is FREE and can be downloaded from Adobe’s Website.
**NEW for 2024**
Effective 1/1/2024 there is a new MANDATORY Sheriff INSTRUCTIONS (per AB 2791). Services received without this form will be rejected.
Service Instructions Form SER-001(pdf)
Provides a form allowing you to instruct the Sheriff’s Civil Unit as to the service of small claims, summons & complaint, notices, civil bench warrants, Out of State service requests, and other types of legal action.
Writ Services Instructions-forms SER-001 and SER-001A(pdf)
Provides a form allowing you to instruct the Sheriff’s Civil Unit regarding enforcement of a WRIT (Writ of Execution, Writ of Possession, Writ of Sale, Writ of Attachment, Claim and Delivery Writ). This may include services such as evictions, a levy on a bank account or funds in possession of a third party, service on a defendant’s business by using “till tap” process, a “keeper installation,” or a “levy and sell.”, personal property and vehicle levies, levy upon the debtor’s interest in real property.
Earnings Withholding Order Instructions
Complete the WG-001 Applications for Earnings Withholding Order (Wage Garnishment) and the Electronic Writ Declaration.
Provides a form allowing you to instruct the Sheriff’s Civil Unit regarding service to garnish wages of someone you have a judgment against, after obtaining a Writ of Execution
Claim of Exemption (Wage Garnishment)
Complete the WG-006 Claim of Exemption (Wage Garnishment) (ca.gov) and WG-007 Financial Statement [same as EJ-165] (ca.gov) forms. Provides a form to request to reduce or stop garnishing wages because you cannot afford the basic necessities of life with the garnishment. If a claim of exemption is opposed by the creditor, this form will be forwarded by the Sheriff to the court.
Claim of Exemption (Enforcement of Judgment)
Complete the EJ-160 Claim of Exemption (ca.gov) and, if applicable, the WG-007 Financial Statement [same as EJ-165] (ca.gov)
Provides a form to claim that some or all of your property being levied is exempt from collection of a judgment. This form is not filed with the court, but instead is filed with the Sheriff. If a claim of exemption is opposed by the creditor, this form will be forwarded by the Sheriff to the court.
Provides a form to give people who live in the home, but weren’t part of the eviction case, a chance to add themselves into the case to say why they shouldn’t be evicted.
