Given answer to question certified, namely: equitable modification under the state's rules of procedure is unavailable where the term is defined by statute and the modification would alter substantive rights, filing of a lis pendens outside the statutory period is insufficient to overwhelm the conclusive presumption of compliance.
http://media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/18/07/163060P.pdf
Since 2011. An occasional commonplacing of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Neither an authoritative statement of the law nor legal advice. Quick work.