How to fill out form CM-110, the Case Management Statement

CM-110 is the Case Management Statement, the form California civil courts use to learn where your case stands before the case management conference. Every party (or the parties jointly) files one. Under California Rules of Court, rule 3.725, it must be filed and served at least 15 calendar days before the conference date, so check the date on your conference notice and work backward.

This is a walkthrough of what the form asks, section by section. It describes the form; it is not legal advice about what your answers should be. For help with the substance of your case, the California courts run free self-help centers: selfhelp.courts.ca.gov.

Before you start, have these in front of you

• The court’s name, branch, and your case number (all on your conference notice or any filed paper in the case).
• The names of the parties exactly as they appear in the caption of the complaint.
• The date the complaint (and any cross-complaint) was filed, and the status of service on each party.
• Your conference notice, which may list a date, time, and department.

Page 1: the caption and case type

The top of page 1 is the caption: your name, address, and phone (or your attorney’s, with their State Bar number), the court, the parties, and the case number. Fill it exactly as it appears on other papers filed in the case.

Then the form asks you to check one of two boxes: unlimited case (amount demanded exceeds $35,000) or limited case (amount demanded is $35,000 or less). This matches how the case was classified when the complaint was filed.

Items 1 through 4: who, what, and where things stand

• Item 1, party or parties. Whether this statement is filed by one party or jointly by several.
• Item 2, complaint and cross-complaint. The filing dates.
• Item 3, service. Whether all named parties have been served, have appeared, or have been dismissed, and which parties have not been served or answered.
• Item 4, description of case. The type of case and a brief statement of what it is about, including any damages claimed.

Items 5 through 10: how the case will be tried

These items ask whether the case will be ready for trial within a year, whether you request a jury or a court (non-jury) trial, estimated trial length, who will try the case, and your position on alternative dispute resolution (ADR): mediation, arbitration, settlement conference, and the other options in the ADR table on page 3.

Items 11 through 16: logistics

Insurance coverage, issues with the court’s jurisdiction, related cases, whether you propose splitting (bifurcating) any issues, motions you expect to file, and the status of discovery.

Items 17 through 20: the rest, and your signature

Economic litigation procedures (for limited cases), any other issues the court should know about, confirmation that you have met and conferred with the other parties as the rules require, and the date and signature block. Sign and date it, then file it with the court and serve it on the other parties.

Three ways to fill it

1. The official PDF from courts.ca.gov, typed in Acrobat or by hand.
2. Our free browser filler: courtdocs.us/fill/cm-110. It fills the current official CM-110 with exactly what you type, tracks which required fields are still empty, shows a live preview, and downloads a filing-ready PDF. Free, no account. What you type stays on your device; it is never sent to us.
3. For law firms filing these regularly: CourtDocs, where the caption fills itself from your case data and you only review. That is the product this site is about.

Whichever you use, review every page before filing, and take questions about what your answers should say to your court’s self-help center.