CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Procedure After Trial/Hearing
......Nunc Pro Tunc Judgments
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Judgment may be entered nunc pro tunc if prior failure to enter was produced by mistake, negligence or inadvertence.

Judgment may be entered nunc pro tunc even though prior judgment has already been entered.

Judgment may not be entered nunc pro tunc to a date prior to trial, date of uncontested judgment hearing, or date of application for judgment on affidavit.

Purpose of a nunc pro tunc order is to avoid injustice to a person whose rights are threatened by a delay which is not his fault; request may be made by another.

Not proper to amend order nunc pro tunc to correct judicial inadvertence, omission, oversight or error, or to show what the court might or should have done as distinguished from what it actually did.

Trial court in marital dissolution empowered to enter judgment nunc pro tunc re all issues, including status, submitted for decision prior to death of party.

Court properly consolidated 1976 and 1989 dissolutions and entered judgment on 1976 MSA nunc pro tunc.