§ 1730.Short Title

Section 1730 does one job: it names the chapter that follows. The label it assigns, the Tribal Court Civil Money Judgment Act, tells a reader immediately what kind of judgment this law reaches and who issues it. Tribal courts are neither sister-state courts nor foreign-country tribunals, so lawmakers built this Act as its own freestanding recognition scheme rather than folding tribal judgments into the sister-state procedure in Chapter 1 or the foreign-country procedure in Chapter 2.

That separate identity matters throughout the rest of the chapter. Courts, litigants, and tribal governments can point to this short title when citing the law that governs whether a California superior court will recognize and enforce a money judgment a tribal court has already entered.