Uzun

BACKGROUND

The appellate record before us does not include documents describing the nature of the underlying dispute or litigation between Uzun and judgment creditors. Nor does the record include the subject judgment against Uzun and in favor of judgment creditors. In his appellate briefing, Uzun acknowledges that on November 22, 2016, the trial court entered a judgment requiring him to pay judgment creditors a principal amount of $148,197.82. On December 30, 2020, judgment creditors filed a motion under section 708.510 et seq., seeking an order assigning to them Uzun’s rights to payments resulting from two lawsuits to which Uzun was a party. As set forth in judgment creditors’ motion and the later-issued assignment order, the two lawsuits are styled as: Uzun v. City of Santa Monica, case No. 2:20-CV-05756-SB-MAA,

Undesignated statutory references are to the Code of Civil

Procedure.

2 filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California; and Uzun v. Uzun, case No. 19STFL10753, a dissolution action filed by Uzun’s spouse in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Judgment creditors sought an assignment of rights to payments from these lawsuits in an…