How to Write A Petition to Vacate Civil Assessment Under Penal Code Sec 1214.1 Posted on September 29th, 2010 Christopher Dort 29 comments Trying to Beat a Civil Assessment and the court is telling you to fill out a Petition to Vacate Civil Assessment Form?
Court Clerk will not let you have a court date, and says you need to fill out a Mandatory Petition to Vacate Civil Assessment Form? Here is Attorney advice on How to Prepare a Petition to Vacate Civil Assessment: If the court clerk tells you “all you can do” is fill out a “Petition to Vacate Civil Assessment” and give it to the collection agency- that is not true. There is a lot you can do. You can file motions with the court that they have to rule on, you can file attachments to your Petition to raise appealable legal issues, and you can appeal. I have handled hundreds of “Civil Assessment” and Vehicle Code 40509.5 cases in at least 12 different CA Counties, and every court seems to handle these cases differently. Here is the best approach to fighting a case with a Civil Assessment. 1) Demand a walk in Court Date; 2) File a Motion to Dismiss under Penal Code sec 1385; 3) File a Petition to Vacate Civil Assessment on the court’s local form with your own Declaration in Support of Petiti
