Gallop

FACTS

Appellant sued Canon Opticians, Inc., Victor Duval, and Claudia Lewis (collectively respondents) for Elder Financial Abuse after they sold her over 100 pairs of luxury eyeglasses for which she paid $79,530 and still owed $173,000. On October 4, 2019, the trial court filed its Statement of Decision and Order for Judgment awarding appellant $25,000. The trial court filed its judgment on November 15, 2019, and its clerk mailed notice of entry of judgment on November 18, 2019.2 At some point, appellant and respondents filed motions to vacate the judgment and for a new trial. The trial court denied those motions on December 9, 2019. That same day, appellant served a notice of ruling. Three weeks later, appellant filed an ex parte application to shorten time to hear her motion for attorney fees. She noted that her “motion for attorney’s fees initially needed to have been filed by January 15, 2020, sixty (60) days after notice of judgment. . . . Such sixty (60) days marks the time by which a Notice of Appeal must be filed. [¶] However, such deadline has been extended to

The only notice attached to the judgment is an October 21, 2019, notice of the proposed judgment.…