CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Procedure After Trial/Hearing
......Attack on Judgments/Orders
.........Tentative/Oral Decision
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Tentative decision.

Although correcting clerical errors in judgment not barred by res judicata, variation b/t tentative oral decision and SOD may be conscious choice by the court, rather than clerical error.

Appeal, from tentative decision withdrawing earlier tentative decision and announcing new one, dismissed; nothing appealable until there is judgment or other appealable order.

Purpose of objections to Tentative Decisions is not to reargue merits.

Tentative Decisions: Effect of