§ 883.Motion For Order Determining Liability For Contribution Or Repayment

This section supplies Chapter 2's version of § 878's contribution motion. A judgment debtor entitled to compel contribution or repayment under § 882 applies to the same court that entered the underlying judgment, by noticed motion, asking for an order determining who owes what. The application window runs from any time before the judgment is fully satisfied through thirty days after satisfaction — a debtor who pays off a joint judgment doesn't have to seek contribution before finishing that payment, and still has a month afterward to act.

Subdivision (b) gives the resulting order real teeth: it entitles the judgment debtor to the benefit of the original judgment for purposes of enforcing the contribution or repayment liability, including every remedy the judgment creditor itself had — the paying debtor essentially steps into the creditor's shoes against the co-debtors who owe reimbursement. Subdivision (c) makes clear this procedure doesn't foreclose any other remedy a debtor entitled to contribution or repayment might otherwise have, such as a separate action.