California Code of Civil Procedure 770.050 – (a) The petition shall be verified in the manner provided for …
(a) The petition shall be verified in the manner provided for verification of a complaint.
(b) The petition may be substantially entitled, “In the matter of the determination of the identity of ____” (naming all the persons sought to be identified), and may set forth:
Terms Used In California Code of Civil Procedure 770.050
- Acquired: means received or taken by conveyance, judgment, decree, or otherwise. See California Code of Civil Procedure 770.010
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See California Code of Civil Procedure 17
- Property: means any right, title, or interest in or lien upon real property or part thereof. See California Code of Civil Procedure 770.010
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- Subsequent owner: means the person to whom property is transferred whether as owner, part owner, or otherwise, or the successors in interest of the person, and includes a distributee of the estate of a decedent. See California Code of Civil Procedure 770.010
(1) A statement of petitioner’s interest in the property as subsequent owner.
(2) A particular description of the property.
(3) The name or names of the person or persons sought to be identified, setting out the name and a reference to the record of the transaction under which the property was acquired or stands of record and the name and a reference to the record of the transaction under which the property was transferred or stands of record, that the names are the names of the same person, and that the transfers affect the petitioner’s title to the real property.
(4) A prayer that the identity of such persons be established.
(c) As many persons sought to be identified as appear of record in the chain of title to the property may be joined in one petition or proceeding.
(Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 44, Sec. 16.)