In McClellan v. Northridge Park Townhome Owners Assn., Inc. (2001) 89 Cal.App.4th 746, the court explained: "Pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 187, a trial court has jurisdiction to modify a judgment to add additional judgment debtors. Section 187 grants to every court the power to use all means to carry its jurisdiction into effect, even if those processes are not set out in the code. . . . .Utilizing section 187, judgments are typically 'amended to add additional judgment debtors on the grounds that a person or entity is the alter ego of the original judgment debtor. This is an equitable procedure based on the theory that the court is not amending the judgment to add a new defendant but is merely inserting the correct name of the real defendant. "Such a procedure is an appropriate and complete method by which to bind new individual defendants where it can be demonstrated that in their capacity as alter ego of the corporation they in fact had control of the previous litigation, and thus were virtually represented in the lawsuit." ' " Section 187 provides: "When jurisdiction is, by the Constitution or this Code, or by any other statute, conferred on a Court or judicial officer, all the means necessary to carry it into effect are also given; and in the exercise of this jurisdiction, if the course of proceeding be not specifically pointed out by this Code or the statute, any suitable process or mode of proceeding may be adopted which may appear most conformable to the spirit of this code." The McClellan court further explained that "whether the theory relied on by the moving party and the trial court is alter ego, piercing the corporate veil, or some other challenge to the fiction of the corporate entity, the doctrine 'limits the exercise of the corporate privilege to prevent its abuse. ' " (McClellan v. Northridge Park Townhome Owners Assn., Inc., supra, 89 Cal.App.4th at p. 753.)