CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Procedure After Trial/Hearing
......Attack on Judgments/Orders
.........Time to Appeal
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Statutory time to appeal.

For purposes of calculating time to appeal, an order is not “filed” unless it is filed in a public place where its presence is capable of being known.

E-mail notice of judgment did not amount to service of either notice of entry or file-stamped copy of judgment—notice of appeal was timely filed w/in 60 days of clerk's snail mailing of notice of entry.

Role of Paralegals; District ct. did not abuse discretion in extending D's time to appeal for excusable neglect where D relied on paralegal who missed filing deadline.

Post-trial deadlines may be triggered either by clerk’s mailing a Notice of Entry or one party’s serving the other with an endorsed-filed copy; filing of proof of service not required.

H's appeal timely where time to file notice of appeal ran after entry of formal Findings and Order After Hearing even though initial ruling was 18 mos prior to filing appeal.