CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Family Residence/Real Property
......Lis Pendens [Notice of Pendency of Action]
.........Effect
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Lis Pendens/ Notice of Pendency of Action: Issuance and effect.

General rule is that unrecorded interests are void as against subsequent bona fide purchaser who records, and as against subsequent judgment after recordation of lis pendens.

A claim that seeks to impose a constructive trust that would affect title may support a lis pendens.

A judgment granting a fraudulent transfer claim, as well as monetary damages, relates back to the date on which the claimants recorded a lis pendens.

No constructive notice of P's prior action against sellers where P's lis pendens not indexed when Ds took interests in property, and it could not have been located by diligent title search.

Lis pendens not "process" for abuse of process suit.