Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California

You prepare a proposed judgement and submit it to the court for approval, signature and filing. Once it is signed and filed, you will need to record a certified copy with the county recorder. You will then be the record owner of the property.

Run down ... don't walk to the county recorders office and get a copy of a Judgment form....JUD-100; OR

http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/forms/fillable/jud100.pdf

use the above URL; fill it out and get it down to the clerk's office before the judge gets sick, retires, or dies...

The form that Mr. Lockhart gave you is NOT the right form. That form is for money judgments. You do not have a money judgment, you have a judgment quieting title. If you are going to do it yourself, I suggest going to a law library, and consulting Matthew Bender's Forms of Pleading and Practice on Quiet Title. There is a way to prepare a quiet title judgment on pleading paper (the paper with the lines and the numbers) and it must be in the format to be recorded by your County Recorder. If you don't want to do it yourself, I suggest contacting a real estate attorney.

I might add that it is customary nowadays for judges to ask the winning party to write the judgment instead of doing it themselves. This might come as a surprise to a non-lawyer.

I am mildly surprised that you got a default judgment in a quiet-title suit. That's pretty hard to do, you must have presented strong evidence. Congratulations.

I agree with Mr. Roach.