Earls v. Superior Court

Opinion

MOSK, J.

Petitioner seeks a writ of mandate to compel respondent court to grant her motion to file a petition for dissolution of marriage without the payment of a filing fee. She alleges that on three occasions before filing the instant proceeding, she submitted to respondent court a motion to file her petition for dissolution of marriage in forma pauperis, supported by an affidavit setting forth facts indicating that she was indigent. Twice the motion was denied without any reason ascribed and a third time a secretary to one of the judges of the respondent court stated, without…