Self-Help Form Packets
Small Claims Form Packets
Use this packet to start a small claims case.
Download full packet here: SHC-SC-01 Opening a Small Claims Case
Forms included in this packet are listed below.
| Form Number | Form Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SC-100-INFO | Information for the Small Claims Plaintiff | Explains Small Claims court and tells you where you can get more information and help. |
| L-0672 | Small Claims Information—How to Name a Business | Explains how to correctly identify and name a business in a small claims case. |
| SC-104C | How to Serve a Business or Public Entity | Explains how to have court forms delivered ("served") to the other side in your Small Claims case when they are a business or public agency. |
| SC-100 | Plaintiff’s Claim and Order to Go to Small Claims Court | Start a Small Claims case in court. |
| SC-100A | Other Plaintiffs or Defendants | Gives you more room to list others who are starting a Small Claims case with you or that you are suing. Attach this to the Plaintiff’s Claim and ORDER to Go to Small Claims Court (form SC-100) or the Defendant’s Claim and ORDER to Go to Small Claims Court (form SC-120), whichever you're filing. |
| SC-103 | Fictitious Business Name | Tell the court and other side if you are suing on behalf of your business that has a Fictitious Business Name. Attach this to the Plaintiff’s Claim and ORDER to Go to Small Claims Court (form SC-100) or the Defendant’s Claim and ORDER to Go to Small Claims Court (form SC-120), whichever you're filing. |
| SC-104B | What Is “Proof of Service”? | Explains how to have court forms delivered ("served") to the other side in your Small Claims case. |
| SC-104 | Proof of Service | Tell the court you had the other side served with the papers you filed to start the Small Claims case. The person who delivered the papers (your server) must sign the form. |
Use this packet to take steps to collect money awarded in a small claims judgment.
Download full packet here: SHC-SC-02 Small Claims: How to Collect a Judgment
Forms included in this packet are listed below.
| Form Number | Form Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| L-1094 | Stipulation for Time Payments (After Judgment) | Records an agreement allowing a judgment to be paid in scheduled installments. |
| SC-134 | Application and Order to Produce Statement of Assets and to Appear for Examination | Ask the Small Claims court to tell a person who lost your Small Claims case to come to court to tell you about their job, what they own, and where they keep their money. |
| SC-133 | Judgment Debtor’s Statement of Assets | Tell the person who won your small claims case about your job, what you own, and where you keep your money. |
| SC-107 | Small Claims Subpoena for Personal Appearance and Production of Documents and Things at Trial or Hearing and Declaration | Tell someone to come to your court date or bring paperwork that will help your case, or both. Before filling out, bring the form to the Small Claims court clerk court who must "issue" it. |
| MC-013-INFO | Information Sheet for Calculating Interest and Amount Owed on a Judgment | Explains what a judgment creditor (a person the court has decided is owed money by another party in a civil case) has a right to collect from the other party and how to figure out the interest and the amount that a judgment creditor is owed. |
| MC-012 | Memorandum of Costs After Judgment, Acknowledgment of Credit, and Declaration of Accrued Interest | If you are a judgment creditor (a person the court has decided is owed money by another party in a civil case), tell the court the costs you had to pay to enforce the court’s decision (judgment) that you are asking the other party to pay you back for, any amount you already got back, and any interest that you are owed on the amount that has not yet been paid back. |
| EJ-130 | Writ of Execution | Tells the sheriff to take action to enforce a judgment. Used with instructions to the sheriff to levy bank accounts, garnish wages, or take possession of personal property |
| EJ-001 | Abstract of Judgment—Civil and Small Claims | Describes the basic terms of a money judgment. Once issued by the clerk of the court, it can be recorded with a county to create a lien against the judgment debtor. |
| WG-001 | Application for Earnings Withholding Order | Ask the sheriff, marshal, or constable of a county to garnish the wages of someone you have a judgment against. Must first obtain a Writ of Execution from the court. |
| WG-002 | Earnings Withholding Order | Tells the employer (orders) to garnish wages of an employee. This sheriff, marshal, or constable may prepare this form or ask you to prepare it for them. |
| WG-003 | Employee Instructions | Instructions to an employee whose wages are being garnished. |
| WG-005 | Employer’s Return | The employer uses this form to tell the sheriff, marshal, or constable about the employment of the person whose wages are being garnished. The sheriff, marshal, or constable may prepare the top caption, or may ask you to prepare it for them. |
| EJ-150 | Notice of Levy | Tells the judgment debtor or other interested person that personal property is being taken by the sheriff to satisfy a judgment. |
| EJ-157-INFO | Instructions for Ex Parte Application for Order on Deposit Account Exemption | Instructions describing form EJ-157. |
| EJ-157 | Ex Parte Application for Order on Deposit Account Exemption | Asks the court to make a decision (order) about which account(s) are exempt from collection, and to what degree, when the judgment debtor has more than one account. |
| EJ-158 | Declaration Regarding Notice and Service for Ex Parte Application for Order on Deposit Account Exemption | Tells the court that you gave notice to the other side that you filed a form EJ-157 and of any hearing that was scheduled on it. |
| EJ-159 | Order on Application for Designation of Deposit Account Exemption | States the court's decision (order) determining which accounts are exempt after the filing of form EJ-157. |
| SER-001 | Request for Sheriff to Serve Court Papers | Ask the sheriff to serve court papers and provide the information needed to complete service. |
| SER-001A | Special Instructions for Writs and Levies—Attachment | Complete this form if you want the sheriff or marshal to enforce a writ. |
Use this packet to ask the court to postpone a small claims trial.
Download full packet here: SHC-SC-03 Small Claims: Request to Postpone Trial
Forms included in this packet are listed below.
| Form Number | Form Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SC-150 | Request to Postpone Trial | Ask the Small Claims judge if you can move your hearing to a later date. |
| SC-112A | Proof of Service by Mail | Tell the court that you served Small Claims forms by mail. |
| SC-152 | Order on Request to Postpone Trial | States the Small Claims judge's decision on moving your hearing to a later date, if someone has asked. |
Use this packet if a judgment has been entered against you and you want to ask the judge to let you make payments to pay the judgment.
Download full packet here: SHC-SC-04 Small Claims: Request to Make Payments
Forms included in this packet are listed below.
| Form Number | Form Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SC-200-INFO | What to Do After the Court Decides Your Small Claims Case | Explains what to do after the judge makes a decision in your Small Claims case. |
| SC-220 | Request to Make Payments | Ask to the judge if you can make payments on what you owe in a Small Claims case. |
| WG-007 | Financial Statement (Wage Garnishment—Enforcement of Judgment) | Tells the sheriff, marshal, or constable and the other side the details of your financial situation. If a claim of exemption is opposed, this information is forwarded by the sheriff, marshal, or constable to the court. |
Use this packet to ask the debtor to come to court and provide information regarding their assets.
Download full packet here: SHC-SC-05 Small Claims: Order to Produce Statement of Assets and to Appear for Examination
Forms included in this packet are listed below.
| Form Number | Form Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SC-134 | Application and Order to Produce Statement of Assets and to Appear for Examination | Ask the Small Claims court to tell a person who lost your Small Claims case to come to court to tell you about their job, what they own, and where they keep their money. |
| SC-133 | Judgment Debtor's Statement of Assets | Tell the person who won your small claims case about your job, what you own, and where you keep your money. |
| SC-107 | Small Claims Subpoena for Personal Appearance and Production of Documents and Things at Trial or Hearing and Declaration | Tell someone to come to your court date or bring paperwork that will help your case, or both. Before filling out, bring the form to the Small Claims court clerk court who must "issue" it. |