MC-025: Attachment to Judicial Council Form
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What is MC-025?
A general-purpose attachment used when a response to any item on a California Judicial Council form (UD-105 item 3t, FL-300 item 8, etc.) doesn't fit in the space provided.
What happens if you miss the deadline: MC-025 has no independent deadline. The parent form's missed-deadline consequences apply (e.g. UD-105 default judgment, FL-300 hearing waiver). Add MC-025 to a future amendment or supplemental filing if the parent has already been filed.
How to file
- Filing fee
- MC-025 carries no separate filing fee. Cost, if any, is set by the parent form. Attaching MC-025 to UD-105 (defendant's answer) costs nothing extra; attaching it to a complaint or petition is bundled with that filing's fee.
- Filing method
- in-person, mail, efile (county-specific, follows the parent form's accepted methods)
- Filing deadline
- MC-025 has no independent deadline. File it together with the parent form by the parent form's deadline. If a filer needs to add an MC-025 to an already-filed parent form, the procedure (motion to amend, supplemental filing) is governed by the parent form's rules and local court practice, not by MC-025 itself.
- How to serve
- Inherits from the parent form. When the parent must be served on opposing parties, MC-025 is served as part of the same package and the proof of service lists the parent plus its attachments.
- Wet signature
- No
- Notarization
- No
- Original and copies
- Inherits from the parent form. The original MC-025 stays physically attached to the original parent form filed with the clerk. Each conformed copy and each served copy carries the same MC-025 attachment.
Common pitfalls
MC-025 is a continuation page, not a stand-alone filing. Treat its filing meta as 'whatever the parent form requires.' The block above captures the small set of rules that are MC-025-specific (zero independent fee, zero independent deadline, zero independent signature).
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Caption short title is required on every page of court documents. On MC-025 it must match the parent form exactly so the clerk can pair them.
- Writing a descriptive title (e.g., 'Tenant's habitability defense') instead of the case caption short title; the clerk pairs MC-025 with its parent by case caption + case number, not by topic.
- Using the petitioner / respondent abbreviation pattern from a different case ('Smith v. Jones' when the parent form's caption is actually 'In re Marriage of Smith'); copy verbatim from the parent form's caption block.
Case number must appear on every page filed and must match the parent form. Without it, the attachment cannot be associated with the case.
- Mistyping a digit so the MC-025 case number does not match the parent form's case number; the clerk physically pairs the attachment by matching the number, and a mismatch can land the MC-025 in another case file or a 'no match' clerk pile.
- Leaving blank because the parent form is a new filing waiting for a clerk-assigned number; in that scenario, file MC-025 together with the parent form so the clerk stamps both with the same number at intake.
MC-025 has a labeled 'ATTACHMENT (Number):' field. Without it, the clerk and judge cannot tell which item on the parent form this attachment continues.
- Writing a sequential page number ('1', '2') instead of the parent form's item number ('3w', '4o'). The attachment number identifies which item on the parent form this attachment continues, not the order of MC-025 sheets.
- Listing multiple item numbers on a single MC-025 ('3a, 3b, 3c'). When more than one item overflows, file a separate MC-025 for each item, each labeled with its own item number.
- Leaving blank because the user only has one MC-025; even a single attachment must be labeled, since the parent form's item references 'see attached' and the judge needs to find the right narrative.
Page X of Y pagination is printed on the form. If the filer attaches a single MC-025 it should be 'Page 1 of 1'.
- Numbering across multiple attachments instead of restarting at 1 for each attachment. Each MC-025 attachment is its own document and starts at 'Page 1 of N' for that attachment, not 'Page 5 of 10' across the whole packet.
- Confusing this page number with the parent form's page number; this is the page within this MC-025 attachment only.
Total pages is required so missing pages can be detected by the clerk.
- Setting total_pages to the parent form's total page count instead of just this MC-025 attachment's page count. The 'Page X of Y' is local to this attachment.
- Forgetting to update total_pages on earlier sheets after adding more text and printing additional pages; if the first sheet says 'Page 1 of 1' and a second sheet exists, the first sheet must be re-printed as 'Page 1 of 2'.
The body of the attachment is the entire substantive content. An empty body makes the attachment useless.
- Restating the entire parent-form item rather than only the overflow narrative; the parent form already has the item label and any inline text, so the MC-025 should pick up exactly where the parent's inline space ran out.
- Including the verification or signature again on the MC-025 when the parent form is verified; the parent form's verification covers the attachment, and a second under-penalty-of-perjury declaration on the MC-025 is unnecessary unless the parent form was unverified.
- Drafting the body so densely that the printed page extends beyond the form's borders. Leave reasonable margins; if the body would clip, split across two MC-025 sheets and update Page X of Y.
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