§ 857.Setting Petition For Hearing, Notice

Once the petition is filed, the clerk takes over scheduling. Section 857 requires the clerk to set the petition for hearing and post notice of the time and place at the county courthouse at least ten days before the hearing date.

Courthouse posting is the statutory floor, not necessarily the ceiling. The court can order whatever further notice it thinks is proper under the circumstances -- useful if, say, the delinquent coowner's whereabouts are uncertain or the case calls for wider notice than a courthouse posting alone provides.