Continuance is at the request of: People. Defendant. Both. Continue Arraignment to .In Orange County, you should make sure to appear and timely file your CMC Statement. If you or the other side want to ask the court to do something in a case, you must ask in written court papers called a Motion or an Order to Show Cause. To request a continuance of a hearing, the Judicial Council has created the FL-306 Request to. Fill out a Request to Postpone Trial (Small Claims) (form SC-150) or write a letter to the court. An application for a court order extending the time to serve a pleading must be filed before the time for service has elapsed. What do I do with my completed form? File it (or ask someone to file it for you) at the court.