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- Cause number: This is your case number, found on the top right corner of all pleadings.
- CVC (Crime Victims Compensation Fund through the Department of Labor and Industries (L&I)): The court can require an individual to make restitution payments to the Crime Victim Compensation Fund if the fund paid the victim(s)to help with financial help for expenses like medical care, mental health counseling, and lost wages resulting from a gross misdemeanor or felony crime. While Labor and Industries is a State agency you cannot ask the court to waive restitution owed to the crime victim compensation fund.
- Expired Jurisdiction: A court no longer has legal power or authority to enforce collection of outstanding legal financial obligations because the timeframe to do so has run out.
- Insurance Company: An insurance company, or insurer, is a business that provides financial protection against future losses in exchange for a regular payment called a premium.
- Jurisdiction: This indicates which county or city and court convicted you. All felony cases are in Superior Court. Misdemeanors can be convicted in district or municipal courts, and sometimes superior court. Superior and District courts refer to the county, while Municipal refers to the city where you were convicted.
- LFO – Legal Financial Obligations: Sometimes referred to as court costs, fines, fees, or assessments. In general, they include restitution, but for the purposes of this petition, LFOs are separate from restitution. They include things like a DNA fee, court costs, filing fees, and witness costs.
- Restitution: The amount ordered as payment for damages. This is paid to the court and distributed to the victim(s). Important distinctions are if restitution is owed to an insurance company or state agency, or to a private company or individual.
- State Agency: A state agency is a government department or office created by a state to carry out specific laws or programs.