California Court Rules
California Court Rules
✓ current as of September 2026Full text of 1,566 rules across 10 sets, cross-linked with California case law.
Title 1. Rules Applicable to All Courts 27 rules
- The California Rules of Court
- Title
- Authority
- Contents of the rules
- Construction of rules and standards
- Definitions and use of terms
- Time for actions
- Holiday falling on a Saturday or Sunday
- Effective Date of Filing
- Service
- Recycled paper [Repealed]
- Judicial Council forms
- Mandatory forms
- Optional forms
- Use of forms
- Statutory references on forms
- Proofs of service on forms
- Forms not to be rejected
- Legibility
- Electronically produced forms
- Judicial Council pleading forms
- California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) information form
- Requests for accommodations by persons with disabilities
- Photographing, recording, and broadcasting in court
- Format of citations
- Protection of privacy
- Access to programs, services, and professionals
Title 2. Trial Court Rules 145 rules
- Title
- Application
- Definitions
- Scope of rules
- Application for an order extending time
- Sanctions for rules violations in civil cases
- Requests for accommodations to pump or express breast milk
- Form and format of papers presented for filing in the trial courts
- One-sided paper
- Size, quality, and color of papers
- Font size; printing
- Font style
- Font color
- Margins
- Spacing and numbering of lines
- Page numbering
- Footer
- Format of first page
- Separate causes of action, counts, and defenses
- Binding
- Exhibits
- Hole punching
- Changes on face of paper
- Conformed copies of papers
- Acceptance of papers for filing
- Exceptions for forms
- Application
- Recycled paper [Repealed]
- True copy certified
- Hole punching
- Forms longer than one page
- Filing of handwritten or hand-printed forms
- Judicial Council forms
- Local court forms
- Authorization for computer-generated or typewritten forms for proof of service of summons and complaint
- Service and filing of notice of change of address or other contact information
- Drop box for filing documents
- Construction and definitions
- Electronic service
- General rules on electronic filing of documents
- Permissive electronic filing, mandatory electronic filing, and electronic filing by court order
- Responsibilities of court
- Contracts with and responsibilities of electronic filing service providers and electronic filing managers
- Responsibilities of electronic filer
- Requirements for signatures on documents
- Payment of filing fees in civil actions
- Actions by court on receipt of electronic filing
- Authorization for courts to continue modifying forms for the purpose of electronic filing and forms generation
- Application
- Definitions
- Compliance with the rules on the form and format of papers
- Filing through fax filing agency
- Direct filing
- Requirements for signatures on documents
- Service of papers by fax transmission
- Court records
- Statement of purpose
- Application, scope, and information to the public
- Definitions
- Application and scope
- Limitations and conditions
- Contracts with vendors
- Fees for electronic access
- Electronic access to court calendars, indexes, and registers of actions
- Application and scope
- Remote access to extent feasible
- Remote access by a party
- Remote access by a party's designee
- Remote access by a party's attorney
- Remote access by persons working in the same legal organization as a party's attorney
- Remote access by a court-appointed person
- Remote access by persons working in a qualified legal services project providing brief legal services
- Identity verification, identity management, and user access
- Security of confidential information
- Searches; unauthorized access
- Audit trails
- Additional conditions of access
- Termination of remote access
- Application and scope
- Identity verification, identity management, and user access
- Security of confidential information
- Audit trails
- Additional conditions of access
- Termination of remote access
- Sealed records
- Procedures for filing records under seal
- Filing False Claims Act records under seal
- Procedures for filing records under seal in a False Claims Act case
- Ex parte application for an extension of time
- Unsealing of records and management of False Claims Act cases
- Confidential information in name change proceedings under address confidentiality program
- Access to name of the petitioner
- Procedures for filing confidential name change records under seal
- Request for delayed public disclosure
- Confidential in-camera proceedings
- Intracounty venue [Reserved]
- Temporary judges appointed by the trial courts
- Court appointment of temporary judges
- Requirements for court appointment of an attorney to serve as a temporary judge
- Contents of training programs
- Appointment of temporary judge
- Continuing education
- Stipulation to court-appointed temporary judge
- Disclosures to the parties
- Disqualifications and limitations
- Continuing duty to disclose and disqualify
- Temporary judges requested by the parties
- Temporary judge-stipulation, order, oath, assignment, disclosure, and disqualification
- Compensation
- Documents and exhibits
- Open proceedings; notices of proceedings, use of court facilities, and order for hearing site
- Motions or applications to be heard by the court
- Language Access Representative
- Language access services complaints
- Professional conduct for interpreters
- Request for court interpreter credential review
- Guidelines for approval of certification programs for interpreters for deaf and hard-of-hearing persons
- Appointment of interpreters in court proceedings
- Reports on appointments of certified and registered interpreters and noncertified and nonregistered interpreters
- Requests for interpreters
- Submission of a cause in a trial court
- Sequential list of reporters
- Electronic recording as official record of proceedings
- Specifications for electronic recording equipment
- Court reporting services in civil cases
- Assessing fee for official reporter
- Jury service [Reserved]
- Length of juror service
- Scheduling accommodations for jurors
- Deferral of jury service
- Excuses from jury service
- Permanent medical excuse from jury service
- Juror motion to set aside sanctions imposed by default
- Communications from or with jury
- Juror note-taking
- Juror notebooks in complex civil cases
- Juror questions
- Statements to the jury panel [Repealed]
- Preinstruction
- Assisting the jury at impasse
- Electronic recordings presented or offered into evidence
- Judicial Council jury instructions
- Proposed jury instructions
- Use of gender-neutral language in jury instructions
- Notice when statute or regulation declared unconstitutional
Title 3. Civil Rules 303 rules
- Title
- Application
- Preemption of local rules
- Definition of limited scope representation; application of rules
- Notice of limited scope representation and application to be relieved as attorney
- Nondisclosure of attorney assistance in preparation of court documents
- Application of rules
- Method of application
- Procedure for determining application
- Application granted unless acted on by the court
- Confidentiality
- Court fees and costs included in all initial fee waivers
- Additional court fees and costs that may be included in initial fee waiver
- Amount of lien for waived fees and costs
- Posting notice
- Payment of filing fees by credit or debit card
- Time for service of complaint, cross-complaint, and response
- Case cover sheet
- Information about alternative dispute resolution
- Papers to be served on cross-defendants
- Limitations on the filing of papers
- Service of papers on the clerk when a party's address is unknown
- List of parties
- Related cases
- Consolidation of cases
- Definition
- Complex case designation
- Complex case counterdesignations
- Action by court
- Requesting assignment of judge when a comprehensive groundwater adjudication is filed in a court overlying the groundwater basin at issue
- Transfer and consolidation of noncomplex common-issue actions filed in different courts
- Definitions
- Complex case-determination
- Requests for extensions of time or to shorten time
- General law applicable
- Appellate review
- Liaison counsel
- Service of papers
- Papers to be submitted to the Chair of the Judicial Council
- Electronic submission of documents to the Chair of the Judicial Council
- Service of memorandums and declarations
- Evidence presented at court hearings
- Motions and orders for a stay
- Motions under Code of Civil Procedure section 170.6
- Motions filed in the trial court
- Petition for coordination
- Notice of submission of petition for coordination
- Service of notice of submission on party
- Order assigning coordination motion judge
- Response in opposition to petition for coordination
- Response in support of petition for coordination
- Notice of hearing on petition for coordination
- Separate hearing on certain coordination issues
- Order granting or denying coordination
- Site of coordination proceedings
- Potential add-on case
- Petition for coordination when cases already ordered coordinated
- Order assigning coordination trial judge
- Duties of the coordination trial judge
- Remand of action or claim
- Transfer of action or claim
- Add-on cases
- Termination of coordinated action
- Termination of coordination proceeding
- General administration by Judicial Council staff
- Duty to notify court and others of stay
- Telephone appearance
- Remote proceedings
- Service of Notice of Stay and Early Evaluation Conference
- Notice of Mandatory Evaluation Conferences
- Scope and purpose of the case management rules
- Authority
- Local court rules
- Application and exceptions
- Delay reduction goals
- Differentiation of cases to achieve goals
- Case evaluation factors
- Application
- Case management review
- Case management conference
- Additional case management conferences
- Duty to meet and confer
- Case Management Statement
- Stipulation to alternative dispute resolution
- Subjects to be considered at the case management conference
- Case management order
- Setting the trial date
- Case management order controls
- Assignment to one judge for all or limited purposes
- Management of short cause cases
- Collections cases
- Settlement of collections case
- Initial case management conference
- Electronic service
- Application
- Form of complaint
- Case conference
- Conference order
- Motion to certify or decertify a class or amend or modify an order certifying a class
- Class action order
- Notice to class members
- Orders in the conduct of class actions
- Discovery from unnamed class members
- Settlement of class actions
- Dismissal of class actions
- Judgment
- Definitions
- Application
- Cases subject to and exempt from arbitration
- Assignment to arbitration
- Arbitration program administration
- Panels of arbitrators
- Selection of the arbitrator
- Disqualification for conflict of interest
- Arbitration hearings; notice; when and where held
- Continuances
- Arbitrator's fees
- Communication with the arbitrator
- Representation by counsel; proceedings when party absent
- Discovery
- Rules of evidence at arbitration hearing
- Conduct of the hearing
- The award
- Trial after arbitration
- Entry of award as judgment
- Vacating judgment on award
- Settlement of case
- Arbitration not pursuant to rules
- Application
- Form of mediator statements and reports
- Purpose and function
- Application
- Definitions
- Voluntary participation and self-determination
- Confidentiality
- Impartiality, conflicts of interest, disclosure, and withdrawal
- Competence
- Quality of mediation process
- Marketing
- Compensation and gifts
- Attendance sheet and agreement to disclosure
- Application and purpose
- Definitions
- Complaint coordinator
- Complaint procedure required
- General requirements for complaint procedures and complaint proceedings
- Permissible court actions on complaints
- Confidentiality of complaint proceedings, information, and records
- Disqualification from subsequently serving as an adjudicator
- Application
- Actions subject to mediation
- Panels of mediators
- Selection of mediators
- Attendance, participant lists, and mediation statements
- Filing of Statement of Agreement or Nonagreement by mediator
- Coordination with Trial Court Delay Reduction Act
- Educational material
- Purposes of reference
- Application for order appointing referee
- Order appointing referee
- Selection and qualifications of referee
- Certification and disclosure by referee
- Objections to the appointment
- Motion to withdraw stipulation
- Use of court facilities and court personnel
- Purposes and conditions for appointment of referee
- Motion for appointment of a referee
- Form and contents of order appointing referee
- Selection and qualification of referee
- Certification and disclosure by referee
- Objection to reference
- Use of court facilities
- Documents and exhibits
- Open proceedings, notice of proceedings, and order for hearing site
- Motions or applications to be heard by the court
- Format of supplemental and further discovery
- Oral depositions by telephone, videoconference, or other remote electronic means
- Application
- Definitions and construction
- Notice of determination of submitted matters
- General format
- Motions-and other pleadings
- Memorandum
- Applications, motions, and petitions not requiring a memorandum
- Declarations
- Deposition testimony as an exhibit
- Bonds and undertakings
- Lodging of record in administrative mandate cases
- Stay of driving license suspension
- Preliminary injunctions and bonds
- Requirements for injunction in certain cases
- Requests for protective orders to prevent civil harassment, workplace violence, private postsecondary school violence, retail crime, and elder or dependent adult abuse
- Request to make minor's information confidential in civil harassment protective order proceedings
- Service requirement for respondents who appear remotely
- Ex parte application for appointment of receiver
- Confirmation of ex parte appointment of receiver
- Nomination of receivers
- Amount of undertakings
- The receiver
- Employment of attorney
- Receiver's inventory
- Monthly reports
- Interim fees and objections
- Receiver's final account and report
- Application
- Required documents
- Contents of application
- Time of notice to other parties
- Contents of notice and declaration regarding notice
- Filing and presentation of the ex parte application
- Service of papers
- Appearance requirements
- Time for filing and service of motion papers
- Place and manner of filing
- Time of hearing
- Evidence at hearing
- Tentative rulings
- Reporting of proceedings on motions
- Preparation and submission of proposed order
- Demurrers
- Motions to strike
- Amended pleadings and amendments to pleadings
- Motions for change of venue
- Motions to quash or to stay action in summary proceeding involving possession of real property
- Motion concerning arbitration
- Motion or application for continuance of trial
- Motion or application to advance, specially set, or reset trial date
- Motion for discretionary dismissal after two years for delay in prosecution
- Motion to dismiss for delay in prosecution
- Format of discovery motions
- Service of motion papers on nonparty deponent
- Discovery motions in summary proceeding involving possession of real property
- Sanctions for failure to provide discovery
- Motion for summary judgment or summary adjudication
- Motions for summary judgment in summary proceeding involving possession of real property
- Objections to evidence
- Written objections to evidence
- Motion to grant lien on cause of action
- Motion to be relieved as counsel
- Petitions under the California Environmental Quality Act
- Emancipation of minors
- Petitions for relief from financial obligations during military service
- Mandatory settlement conferences
- Good faith settlement and dismissal
- Petition for approval of the compromise of a claim of a minor or a person with a disability; order for deposit of funds; and petition for withdrawal
- Duty to notify court and others of settlement of entire case
- Service and filing of notice of entry of dismissal
- Examination of prospective jurors in civil cases
- Expedited jury trials
- Pretrial procedures for mandatory expedited jury trials
- Consent order for voluntary expedited jury trial
- Pretrial submissions for voluntary expedited jury trials
- Voir dire
- Time limits
- Case presentation
- Presentation of evidence
- Assignment of judicial officers
- Application
- Request for special findings by jury
- Announcement of tentative decision, statement of decision, and judgment
- Statement of decision, judgment, and motion for new trial following bifurcated trial
- Notice of intention to move for new trial
- Hearing of motion to vacate judgment
- Prejudgment costs
- Claiming attorney's fees
- Default judgments
- Inclusion of interest in judgment
- Periodic payment of judgments against public entities
- Notation on written instrument of rendition of judgment
- Notice of renewal of judgment
- Debtor’s examinations in consumer debt cases
- Unlawful detainer-supplemental costs
- Settlement opportunities
- Compliance with fictitious business name laws
- Substituted service
- Defendant's claim
- Venue challenge
- Request for court order
- Form of judgment
- Role of clerk in assisting small claims litigants
- Advisor assistance
- Application
- Form and format of administrative record lodged in a CEQA proceeding
- Lodging and service
- Electronic format
- Paper format
- Definitions and application
- Time
- Filing and service
- Petition
- Response to petition
- Administrative record
- Initial case management conference
- Briefing and Hearing
- Judgment
- Notice of settlement
- Settlement procedures and statement of issues
- Postjudgment motions
- Application
- Service of Petition
- List of responsible parties
- Trial court costs in certain streamlined CEQA projects
- Review under Penal Code section 186.35 of law enforcement agency denial of request to remove name from shared gang database
Title 4. Criminal Rules 100 rules
- Title
- Application
- Reference to Penal Code
- Arraignments
- Bail in criminal cases
- Uniform bail and penalty schedules-traffic, boating, fish and game, forestry, public utilities, parks and recreation, business licensing
- Notice to appear forms
- Procedures and eligibility criteria for attending traffic violator school
- Appearance without deposit of bail in infraction cases
- Failure to appear or failure to pay for a Notice to Appear issued for an infraction offense
- Mandatory reminder notice―infraction cases
- Installment Payment Agreements
- Time limits for criminal proceedings on information or indictment
- Pretrial motions in criminal cases
- Readiness conference
- Motions and grounds for continuance of criminal case set for trial
- Certification under Penal Code section 859a
- Criminal case assignment
- Certification to juvenile court
- Qualifications for appointed trial counsel in capital cases
- Additional requirements in pretrial proceedings in capital cases
- Mental competency proceedings
- Evaluation of defendant after initiation of mental competency proceedings
- Posttrial hearings on competence under section 1370
- Probable cause determinations under section 1368.1(a)(2)
- Change of venue: application and general provisions
- Motion for change of venue
- Selection of court and trial judge
- Order on change of venue
- Proceedings in the receiving court
- Guidelines for reimbursement of costs in change of venue cases-criminal cases
- Pre-voir dire conference in criminal cases
- Voir dire in criminal cases
- Statements to the jury panel
- Traffic court-trial by written declaration
- Remote video proceedings in traffic infraction cases
- Additional requirements in capital cases
- Commitments to nonpenal institutions [Repealed]
- Notification of appeal rights in felony cases
- Notification of appeal rights in misdemeanor and infraction cases
- Determination of presentence custody time credit
- Setting date for execution of death sentence
- Records of criminal convictions (Gov. Code, §§ 69844.5, 71280.5)
- Ignition interlock installation orders: "interest of justice" exceptions
- Misdemeanor hate crimes
- Ability-to-pay determinations for infraction offenses
- Confidential Can't Afford to Pay Fine Forms
- Authority
- Application
- Definitions
- Reasons
- Listing of factors not exclusive; sequence not significant
- Consideration of relevant factors
- General objectives in sentencing
- Presentence investigations and reports
- Probation officer's presentence investigation report
- Reasons-agreement to punishment as an adequate reason and as abandonment of certain claims
- Grant of probation when defendant is presumptively ineligible for probation
- Criteria affecting probation
- Criteria affecting the imposition of mandatory supervision
- Selection of term of imprisonment
- Circumstances in aggravation
- Circumstances in mitigation
- Consideration of applicability of section 654
- Factors affecting concurrent or consecutive sentences
- Violent sex crimes
- Hate crimes
- Factors affecting imposition of enhancements
- Proceedings at sentencing to be reported
- Matters to be considered at time set for sentencing
- Sentencing on revocation of probation, mandatory supervision, and postrelease community supervision
- Statements in aggravation and mitigation
- Sentencing of enhancements
- Sentence consecutive to or concurrent with indeterminate term or term in other jurisdiction
- Determinate sentence consecutive to prior determinate sentence
- Commitments to nonpenal institutions [Repealed]
- Notification of appeal rights in felony cases [Repealed]
- Determination of presentence custody time credit
- Judge's statement under section 1203.01
- Reverse remand
- Intercounty transfer of probation and mandatory supervision cases
- Revocation of postrelease community supervision [Repealed]
- Minimum contents of supervising agency reports
- Definitions
- Habeas corpus application
- Habeas corpus proceedings
- Habeas corpus jurisdiction
- Qualifications for appointed counsel for claims under section 1473(e) in noncapital case
- Application of article
- Superior court appointment of counsel in death penalty-related habeas corpus proceedings
- Recruitment and determination of qualifications of attorneys for appointment in death penalty-related habeas corpus proceedings
- Filing of petition in the superior court
- Transfer of petitions
- Proceedings after the petition is filed
- Proceedings following an order to show cause
- Decision on death penalty-related habeas corpus petition
- Successive petitions
- Transfer of files
- Judicial determination of factual innocence form
- Firearm relinquishment procedures for criminal protective orders [Repealed]
Title 5. Family and Juvenile Rules 263 rules
- Title
- Division title; definitions; application of rules and laws
- Preemption; local rules and forms
- Use of forms
- Appearance by telephone
- Request for order regarding discovery
- Sanctions for violations of rules of court in family law cases
- Designation of parties
- Other causes of action
- Injunctive relief and reservation of jurisdiction
- Joinder of persons claiming interest
- Joinder of employee pension benefit plan
- Filing fees
- Waiver of fees and costs
- Fee waiver denials; voided actions; dismissal
- Repayment of waived court fees and costs in family law support actions
- Waiver of fees and costs-Supreme Court or Court of Appeal
- Papers issued by the court
- Confidential cover sheet for parentage actions or proceedings involving assisted reproduction; other requirements [Repealed]
- Declaration under Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA)
- Petition or complaint; alternative relief
- Appearance by respondent
- Request for order to quash proceeding or responsive relief
- Proof of service
- Manner of service of summons and petition; response; jurisdiction
- Court order for service by publication or posting when respondent's address is unknown
- Pleadings and amended pleadings
- Domestic partnerships
- Summary dissolution
- Actions or proceedings to determine a parental (or nonparental) relationship involving an assisted reproduction agreement
- Family centered case resolution
- Format of papers
- Individual restraining order
- Request for court order; responsive declaration
- Order shortening time; other filing requirements; failure to serve request for order
- Request to reschedule hearing
- Place and manner of filing
- Time frames for transferring jurisdiction
- Meet-and-confer requirements; document exchange
- Declarations supporting and responding to a request for court order
- Declaration page limitation; exemptions
- Live testimony
- Judicial notice
- Motion to quash proceeding or responsive relief [Repealed]
- Reporting of hearing proceedings
- Preparation, service, and submission of order after hearing
- Request for Special Immigrant Juvenile findings
- Request for temporary emergency (ex parte) orders; application; required documents
- Requirements for notice
- Service of application; temporary restraining orders
- Personal appearance at hearing for temporary emergency orders
- Matters not requiring notice to other parties
- Court-connected child custody mediation
- Domestic violence protocol for Family Court Services
- Court-ordered child custody evaluations
- Appointment requirements for child custody evaluators
- Domestic violence training standards for court-appointed child custody investigators and evaluators
- Ex parte communication in child custody proceedings
- Appointment of counsel to represent a child in family law proceedings
- Compensation of counsel appointed to represent a child in a family law proceeding
- Qualifications, rights, and responsibilities of counsel appointed to represent a child in family law proceedings
- Children's participation and testimony in family court proceedings
- Guidelines for developing parenting plans and issuing court orders involving virtual visitation
- General provisions regarding support cases
- Standards for computer software to assist in determining support
- Purpose, authority, and definitions
- Hearing of matters by a judge under Family Code sections 4251(a) and 4252(b)(7)
- Use of existing family law forms
- Implementation of new and revised governmental forms by local child support agencies
- Memorandum of points and authorities
- Attorney of record in support actions under title IV-D of the Social Security Act
- Telephone appearance in title IV-D hearings and conferences
- Procedures for clerk's handling of combined summons and complaint
- Procedures for child support case registry form
- Procedures for hearings on interstate income withholding orders
- Judicial education for child support commissioners
- Procedures for hearings to cancel (set aside) voluntary declarations of parentage or paternity when no previous action has been filed
- Minimum standards of training for court clerk staff whose assignment includes title IV-D child support cases
- Appearance by local child support agency
- Procedure for consolidation of child support orders
- Party designation in interstate and intrastate cases
- Transfer of title IV-D cases between tribal court and state court
- Procedure for a support obligor to file a motion regarding mistaken identity
- Agreement and judgment of parentage in Domestic Violence Prevention Act cases
- Modification of child custody, visitation, and support orders in Domestic Violence Prevention Act cases
- Request to make minor's information confidential in domestic violence protective order proceedings
- Procedures for filing a tribal court protective order
- Bifurcation of issues
- Interlocutory appeals
- Setting trials and long-cause hearings
- Trial or hearing brief
- Default
- Request for default; forms
- Judgment checklists
- Review of default and uncontested judgments submitted on the basis of declaration under Family Code section 2336
- Default and uncontested judgment hearings on judgments submitted on the basis of declarations under Family Code section 2336
- Stipulated judgments
- Notice of entry of judgment
- Completion of notice of entry of judgment
- Domestic violence procedures for court-connected settlement service providers
- Limited scope representation; application of rules
- Attorney's fees and costs
- Minimum standards for the Office of the Family Law Facilitator
- Related cases
- Court communication protocol for domestic violence and child custody orders.
- Minor's request to marry or establish a domestic partnership
- Contact after adoption agreement
- Request for sibling contact information
- Custody and visitation orders following termination of a juvenile court proceeding or probate court guardianship proceeding
- Application
- Inquiry and notice
- Proceedings after notice
- Dismissal and transfer of case
- Emergency proceedings involving an Indian child
- Placement of an Indian child
- Termination of parental rights
- Petition to invalidate orders
- Adoption record keeping
- Adoption of a child resident in the United States by a resident of a foreign country party to the Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (Convention or Hague Adoption Convention)
- Adoption of a child resident in the United States by a resident of a foreign country not party to the Hague Adoption Convention
- Adoption by a United States resident of a child resident in a foreign country that is party to the Hague Adoption Convention
- Requirement to request adoption under California law of a child born in a foreign country when the adoption is finalized in the foreign country (Fam. Code, §§ 8912, 8919)
- Firearm relinquishment procedures [Repealed]
- Service requirement for proposed restrained persons who appear remotely
- Division title
- Preliminary provisions
- Definitions and use of terms
- Judicial Council forms
- Juvenile dependency court performance measures
- Proper court; determination of child’s residence; exclusive jurisdiction; retention of jurisdiction after death of child or nonminor dependent
- Joint assessment procedure
- Intake; guidelines
- Factors to consider
- Court-connected child protection/dependency mediation
- Filing the petition; application for petition
- Remote filing
- Electronic service (§ 212.5)
- Form of petition; notice of hearing
- Citation to appear; warrants of arrest; subpoenas
- Persons present
- Appearance by telephone (§ 388; Pen. Code § 2625)
- Court reporter; transcripts
- General provisions-all proceedings
- General provisions-proceedings held before referees
- Conduct of proceedings held before a referee not acting as a temporary judge
- Orders of referees not acting as temporary judges
- Rehearing of proceedings before referees
- Prehearing motions (§ 700.1)
- Prehearing discovery
- Granting immunity to witnesses
- Continuances
- Confidentiality of a juvenile case file (§ 827)
- Procedure for requesting any juvenile delinquency case file and a living child’s juvenile dependency case file (§§ 827(a)(1), 827.12, 828)
- Procedure for requesting a deceased child’s juvenile dependency case file (§ 827(a)(2))
- Hearing to consider termination of juvenile court jurisdiction over a nonminor-dependents or wards of the juvenile court in a foster care placement and nonminor dependents (§§ 224.1(b), 303, 366.31, 391, 451, 452, 607.2, 607.3, 16501.1 (g)(16))
- General provisions
- Hearing on subsequent and supplemental petitions (§§ 342, 364, 386, 387)
- Request to change court order (petition for modification)
- Joinder of agencies
- Hearing on violation of probation (§ 777)
- Rules governing appellate review
- Advisement of right to review in section 300, 601, or 602 cases
- Stay pending appeal
- Emancipation of minors
- Transfer-out hearing
- Transfer-in hearing
- Transfer of nonminor dependents
- Out-of-county placements
- Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
- Placement in short-term residential therapeutic program (§§ 361.22, 727.12)
- Voluntary placement in psychiatric residential treatment facility (Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 361.23, 727.13)
- Orders after filing under section 300
- Orders after filing of petition under section 601 or 602
- Restraining orders
- Civil harassment, workplace violence prevention, and domestic violence prevention orders
- Parentage
- Family Finding (§§ 309(e), 628(d))
- Psychotropic medications
- Authorization to release psychotropic medication prescription information to Medical Board of California
- Mental health or condition of child; court procedures
- Mental health or condition of child; competency evaluations
- Medi-Cal: Presumptive Transfer of Specialty Mental Health Services
- Right to make educational or developmental-services decisions
- Appointed educational rights holder
- Educational and developmental-services decisionmaking rights
- Access to pupil records for truancy purposes
- Program requirements for Court Appointed Special Advocate programs
- Attorneys for parties (§§ 317, 317.5, 317.6, 353, 366.26, 16010.6)
- Representation of the child on appeal
- Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) guardian ad litem for a child subject to a juvenile dependency petition
- Responsibilities of children's counsel in delinquency proceedings (§§ 202, 265, 633, 634, 634.3 634.6, 679, 700)
- Training requirements for children's counsel in delinquency proceedings (§ 634.3)
- Service and notice
- Commencement of hearing-explanation of proceedings (§§ 316, 316.2)
- Initial hearing; detention hearings; time limit on custody; setting jurisdiction hearing; visitation (§§ 309, 311, 313, 315, 362.1)
- Continuances
- Conduct of hearing; admission, no contest, submission
- Requirements for detention
- Findings in support of detention; factors to consider; reasonable efforts; active efforts; detention alternatives
- Detention rehearings; prima facie hearings [Repealed]
- Commencement of jurisdiction hearing-advisement of trial rights; admission, no contest, submission
- Contested hearing on petition
- Continuance pending disposition hearing [Repealed]
- Failure to cooperate with services (§ 360(b)) [Repealed]
- General conduct of disposition hearing
- Findings and orders of the court-disposition
- Disposition Hearing for a Nonminor (Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 224.1, 295, 303, 358, 358.1, 361, 366.31, 390, 391)
- Termination of jurisdiction-custody and visitation orders (§§ 302, 304, 361.2, 362.4, 726.5)
- Setting a hearing under section 366.26
- Family maintenance review hearings (§ 364)
- Review or dispositional hearing requirements for child approaching majority (§§ 224.1, 366(a)(1)(F), 366.3, 366.31, 16501.1(f)(16))
- General review hearing requirements
- Six-month review hearing
- Twelve-month permanency hearing
- Eighteen-month permanency review hearing
- Twenty-four-month subsequent permanency review hearing
- Selection of permanent plan (§§ 366.24, 366.26, 727.3, 727.31)
- Prospective adoptive parent designation (§§ 366.26(n), 16010.6)
- Proposed removal (§ 366.26(n))
- Emergency removal (§ 366.26(n))
- Adoption
- Legal guardianship
- Hearings after selection of a permanent plan (§§ 366.26, 366.3, 16501.1)
- Initial hearing; detention hearings; time limit on custody; setting jurisdiction hearing
- Commencement of initial hearing-explanation, advisement, admission
- Conduct of detention hearing
- Requirements for detention; prima facie case
- Detention hearing; report; grounds; determinations; findings; orders; factors to consider for detention; restraining orders
- Detention rehearings
- Prima facie hearings
- General provisions
- Report of probation officer
- Conduct of transfer of jurisdiction hearing under section 707
- Conduct of fitness hearings under sections 707(a)(2) and 707(c) [Repealed]
- Setting petition for hearing-detained and nondetained cases; waiver of hearing
- Grounds for continuance of jurisdiction hearing
- Commencement of hearing on section 601 or section 602 petition; right to counsel; advisement of trial rights; admission, no contest
- Contested hearing on section 601 or section 602 petition
- Continuance pending disposition hearing
- General conduct of hearing
- Orders of the court
- Required determinations
- Deferred entry of judgment
- Commitment to secure youth treatment facility
- California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Justice, commitments [Repealed]
- Secure youth treatment facility baseline term
- Secure youth treatment facility progress review process
- Discharge from secure youth treatment facility (§ 875(e)(3) & (4))
- Reviews, hearings, and permanency planning
- Modification to transition jurisdiction for a ward older than 17 years and 5 months with a petition subject to dismissal (Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 450, 451, 727.2(i)-(j), 778; Pen. Code, § 236.14)
- Additional requirements for any hearing to terminate jurisdiction over child in foster care and for status review or dispositional hearing for child approaching majority (§§ 450, 451, 727.2(i)-(j), 778)
- Modification to transition jurisdiction for a ward older than 18 years and younger than 21 years of age (§§ 450, 451)
- Modification to transition jurisdiction for a ward older than 17 years, 5 months of age and younger than 18 years of age (§§ 450, 451)
- Legal guardianship-wards (§§ 366.26, 727.3, 728)
- Termination of parental rights for child in foster care for 15 of the last 22 months
- Freeing wards for adoption
- Sealing records (§ 781)
- Dismissal of petition and sealing of records (§ 786)
- Sealing of records by probation in diversion cases (§ 786.5)
- Prosecuting attorney request to access sealed juvenile case files
- Nonminor dependent-preliminary provisions (§§ 224.1(b), 295, 303, 366, 366.3, 388, 391, 607(a))
- Nonminor dependent status review hearing (§§ 224.1(b), 295, 366.1, 366.3, 366.31)
- Request by nonminor for the juvenile court to resume jurisdiction (§§ 224.1(b), 303, 388(e), 388.1)
Title 7. Probate Rules 115 rules
- Probate Rules
- Preliminary provisions
- Definitions and use of terms
- Waiver of rules in probate proceedings
- Waivers of court fees in decedents' estates, conservatorships, and guardianships
- Ex parte communications in proceedings under the Probate Code and certain other proceedings
- Description of pleading in notice of hearing
- Service of notice of hearing
- Service of notice when recipient's address unknown
- Notice of hearing of amended or supplemented pleadings
- Publication of Notice of Petition to Administer Estate
- Ex parte application for order
- Use of Judicial Council forms
- Titles of pleadings and orders
- Signature and verification of pleadings
- Execution and verification of amended pleadings, amendments to pleadings, and supplements to pleadings; use of Judicial Council forms
- Acknowledgment of receipt of statement of duties and liabilities of personal representative
- Reimbursement of graduated filing fee by successful subsequent petitioner [Repealed]
- Waiver of bond in will
- Two or more personal representatives
- Separate bonds for individuals
- Duty to apply for order increasing bond
- Independent power to sell real property
- Bond upon sale of real property
- Bonds of conservators and guardians
- Report of actions taken under the Independent Administration of Estates Act
- Spousal or domestic partner property petition filed with petition for probate
- Personal representative's action on the claim
- Court's action on the claim
- Listing all claims in the final report
- Refusal to show property to prospective buyers
- Petitioner or attorney required at hearing
- Petition for exclusive listing
- Ex parte application for order authorizing sale of securities or other personal property
- Inventory and Appraisal to show sufficiency of bond
- Effect of waiver of account
- Final accounts or reports in estates with nonresident beneficiaries [Repealed]
- Graduated filing fee adjustments for estates commenced on or after August 18, 2003, and before January 1, 2008 [Repealed]
- Graduated filing fee statements for decedents' estates commenced on or after January 1, 2008 [Repealed]
- Accounting of conservators and guardians
- Final account of conservator of the estate
- Decree of distribution establishing testamentary trusts
- Description of property in petition for distribution
- Allegations in petition for distribution concerning character of property
- Compensation paid in advance
- Allowance on account of statutory compensation
- Petition for extraordinary compensation
- Extraordinary compensation
- Apportionment of statutory compensation
- Calculation of statutory compensation
- Compensation when personal representative is an attorney
- Application of compensation provisions
- Application of rules to guardianships and conservatorships
- Petitions for orders allowing compensation for guardians or conservators and their attorneys
- Court may order accounting before allowing compensation
- Contingency fee agreements in guardianships and conservatorships
- Use of paralegals in the performance of legal services for the guardian or conservator
- Advance payments and periodic payments to guardians, conservators, and to their attorneys on account for future services
- Compensation of conservators and guardians
- Compensation of trustees
- Objections and responses
- Electronic filing and service in contested probate proceedings
- Trustee's accounts
- Beneficiaries to be listed in petitions and accounts
- Trusts funded by court order
- Petition for approval of compromise of claim or action or disposition of proceeds of judgment for minor or person with a disability
- Petition for expedited approval of compromise of claim or action or disposition of proceeds of judgment for minor or person with a disability
- Disclosure of attorney's interest in petition for approval of compromise of claim
- Attendance at hearing on the petition for approval of compromise of claim
- Order for the deposit of funds of a minor or a person with a disability
- Petition for the withdrawal of funds deposited for a minor or a person with a disability
- Attorney's fees for services to a minor or a person with a disability
- Guardian screening form
- Acknowledgment of receipt of Duties of Guardian
- Guardianship of ward 18 to 20 years of age
- Confidential guardianship status report form
- Termination of guardianship
- Service of copy of final account or report after resignation or removal of guardian
- Service of copy of final account on termination of guardianship
- Settlement of accounts and release by former minor
- Visitation by former guardian after termination of guardianship
- Standards of conduct for the guardian of the estate
- Taking possession of an asset of the ward at an institution or opening or changing ownership of an account or safe-deposit box in a financial institution
- The good cause exception to notice of the hearing on a petition for appointment of a temporary guardian
- Change of ward’s residence (Prob. Code, §2352)
- Communications between courts in different California counties concerning guardianship venue
- Guardianship and certain conservatorship proceedings involving Indian children (Prob. Code, §§ 1449, 1459, 1459.5, 1460.2, 1511(b), (i); Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 224-224.6; 25 U.S.C. §§ 1901-1963; 25 C.F.R. §§ 23.1-23.144)
- Participation and testimony of wards in guardianship proceedings (Pro. Code, § 1514(b)(1); Fam Code, § 3042)
- Special Immigrant Juvenile Findings in Guardianship Proceedings
- Conservator forms
- Acknowledgment of receipt of Duties of Conservator
- Termination of conservatorship [Repealed]
- Service of final account of removed or resigned conservator [Repealed]
- Service of final account after termination of conservatorship [Repealed]
- Standards of conduct for the conservator of the estate
- Investigations and reports by court investigators
- Taking possession of an asset of the conservatee at an institution or opening or changing ownership of an account or safe-deposit box in a financial institution
- The good cause exception to notice of the hearing on a petition for appointment of a temporary conservator
- Change of conservatee’s residence; determination of level of care (Prob. Code, §§ 2352, 2352.5)
- Scope, definitions, and general qualifications
- Qualifications and annual education required for counsel appointed to represent a ward or proposed ward (Prob. Code, §§1456, 1470(a))
- Qualifications and annual education required for counsel appointed to represent a conservatee, proposed conservatee, or person alleged to lack legal capacity (Prob. Code, §§ 1456, 1470(a), 1471)
- Local administration
- Certification of attorney qualifications
- Title and purpose
- Definitions
- General provisions
- Papers to be filed (§ 5975, 5978)
- Venue and transfer (§ 5973)
- Persons who may file petition (§§ 5974, 5978) [Repealed]
- Counsel for respondent (§§ 5976(c), 5977(a)(3)(A), (a)(5)(C) & (b)(1))
- Notice of proceedings (§§ 5977-5977.3, 5979)
- Joinder of local government entity (§ 5977.1(d)(4))
- Order to show cause (§ 5979(b))
- Participation in accountability hearings (§ 5979)
Title 8. Appellate Rules 336 rules
- Title
- Application of division
- Construction
- Definitions and use of terms
- Scope of rules
- Amendments to rules
- Amendments to statutes
- Documents violating rules not to be filed
- California Rules of Court prevail
- Sanctions to compel compliance
- Service, filing, and filing fees
- Waiver of fees and costs
- Service on nonparty public officer or agency
- Address and other contact information of record; notice of change
- Substituting parties; substituting or withdrawing attorneys
- Cover requirements for documents filed in paper form
- Protection of privacy in documents and records
- Requirements for signatures of multiple parties on filed documents
- Number of copies of filed documents
- General provisions
- Sealed records
- Confidential records
- Applications
- Motions
- Motions before the record is filed
- Extending time
- Policies and factors governing extensions of time
- Tolling or extending time because of public emergency
- Shortening time
- Application, construction, and definitions
- Electronic filing
- Responsibilities of court and electronic filer
- Contracts with electronic filing service providers
- Format of electronic documents
- Requirements for signatures on documents
- Payment of filing fees
- Actions by court on receipt of electronically submitted document; date and time of filing
- Electronic service
- Court order requiring electronic service
- Statement of purpose
- Application and scope
- Definitions
- Public access
- Limitations and conditions
- Fees for copies of electronic records
- Privacy in opinions
- Filing the appeal
- Time to appeal
- Extending the time to appeal
- Petition for writ of supersedeas
- Request for writ of supersedeas or temporary stay
- Record on appeal
- Notice designating the record on appeal
- Clerk's transcript
- Record of administrative proceedings
- Appendixes
- Superior court file instead of clerk's transcript
- Reporter's transcript
- Agreed statement
- Settled statement
- Failure to procure the record
- Form of the record
- Record in multiple or later appeals in same case
- When the record is complete
- Filing the record
- Lending the record
- Augmenting and correcting the record
- Presumption from the record
- Briefs by parties and amici curiae
- Contents and format of briefs
- Certificate of Interested Entities or Persons
- Service and filing of briefs
- Appeals in which a party is both appellant and respondent
- Failure to file a brief
- Transmitting exhibits
- Calendar preference
- Settlement, abandonment, voluntary dismissal, and compromise
- Prehearing conference
- Judicial notice; findings and evidence on appeal
- New Authorities
- Oral argument and submission of the cause
- Opinions [Reserved]
- Filing, finality, and modification of decision
- Rehearing
- Remittitur
- Sanctions
- Costs on appeal
- Appointment of appellate counsel by the Court of Appeal
- Filing the appeal; certificate of probable cause
- Time to appeal
- Stay of execution and release on appeal
- Abandoning the appeal
- Normal record; exhibits
- Application in superior court for addition to normal record
- Confidential records [Repealed]
- Juror-identifying information
- Preparing, certifying, and sending the record
- Augmenting or correcting the record in the Court of Appeal
- Agreed statement
- Settled statement
- Briefs by parties and amici curiae
- Certificate of interested entities or persons
- Hearing and decision in the Court of Appeal
- Hearing and decision in the Supreme Court
- Petition for writ of habeas corpus filed by petitioner not represented by an attorney
- Petition for writ of habeas corpus filed by an attorney for a party
- Proceedings after the petition is filed
- Proceedings if the return is ordered to be filed in the reviewing court
- Decision in habeas corpus proceedings
- Appeal from order granting relief by writ of habeas corpus
- Application
- Qualifications and appointment of counsel by the Court of Appeal
- Filing the appeal; certificate of appealability
- Time to appeal
- Stay of execution on appeal
- Record on appeal
- Briefs by parties and amici curiae
- Claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel not raised in the superior court
- Finality
- Application
- Confidentiality
- Right to appointment of appellate counsel and prerequisites for appeal
- Stay pending appeal
- Filing the appeal
- Time to appeal
- Record on appeal
- Record in multiple appeals in the same case
- Preparing and sending the record
- Augmenting and correcting the record in the reviewing court
- Abandoning the appeal
- Briefs by parties and amici curiae
- Appeals from all terminations of parental rights; dependency appeals in Orange, Imperial, and San Diego Counties and in other counties by local rule
- Appeals from orders transferring a minor from juvenile court to a court of criminal jurisdiction
- Notice of intent to file writ petition to review order setting hearing under Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26
- Writ petition to review order setting hearing under Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26
- Notice of intent to file writ petition under Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.28 to review order designating specific placement of a dependent child after termination of parental rights
- Writ petition under Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.28 to review order designating or denying specific placement of a dependent child after termination of parental rights
- Hearing and decision in the Court of Appeal
- Hearing and decision in the Supreme Court
- Procedures and data
- Appeal from order establishing conservatorship
- Appeal from judgment authorizing conservator to consent to sterilization of conservatee
- Appeal from order of civil commitment
- Application
- Petitions
- Opposition and amicus curiae briefs
- Certificate of Interested Entities or Persons
- Notice to trial court
- Filing, finality, and modification of decisions; rehearing; remittitur
- Responsive pleading under Code of Civil Procedure section 418.10
- Sanctions
- Costs
- Review of California Environmental Quality Act cases under Public Resources Code sections 21178-21189.3 [Repealed]
- Petition for review
- Form and contents of petition, answer, and reply
- Petition for review to exhaust state remedies
- Ordering review
- Issues on review
- Briefs by parties and amici curiae; judicial notice
- Oral argument and submission of the cause
- Disposition
- Filing, finality, and modification of decision
- Rehearing
- Remittitur
- Costs and sanctions
- Decision on request of a court of another jurisdiction
- Transfer for decision
- Definitions
- In general
- Qualifications of counsel in death penalty appeals
- General provisions
- Contents and form of the record
- Juror-identifying information
- Preparing and certifying the record of preliminary proceedings
- Preparing the trial record
- Certifying the trial record for completeness
- Certifying the trial record for accuracy
- Briefs by parties and amicus curiae
- Applications to file overlength briefs in appeals from a judgment of death
- Transmitting exhibits; augmenting the record in the Supreme Court
- Oral argument and submission of the cause
- Filing, finality, and modification of decision; rehearing; remittitur
- Qualifications of counsel in death penalty-related habeas corpus proceedings
- Definitions and application
- Filing and service
- Appeals
- Writ proceedings
- Court of Appeal costs in certain streamlined CEQA projects
- Application
- Filing and service
- Notice of appeal
- Record on appeal
- Superior court clerk duties
- Briefing
- Oral argument
- Extensions of time
- Review of Workers' Compensation Appeals Board cases
- Review of Public Utilities Commission cases
- Review of Agricultural Labor Relations Board and Public Employment Relations Board cases
- Filing, modification, and finality of decision; remittitur
- Application of division and scope of rules
- Construction
- Definitions
- Requirements for signatures on documents
- Amendments to rules and statutes
- Applications
- Motions
- Judicial notice
- Extending time
- Policies and factors governing extensions of time
- Relief from default
- Shortening time
- Substituting parties; substituting or withdrawing attorneys
- Form of filed documents
- Address and other contact information of record; notice of change
- Service and filing
- Waiver of fees and costs
- Sealed records
- Application of chapter
- Notice of appeal
- Time to appeal
- Extending the time to appeal
- Writ of supersedeas
- Abandonment, voluntary dismissal, and compromise
- Record on appeal
- Notice designating the record on appeal
- Clerk's transcript
- Trial court file instead of clerk's transcript
- Reporter's transcript
- Record when trial proceedings were officially electronically recorded
- Agreed statement
- Statement on appeal
- Form of the record
- Record in multiple appeals
- Completion and filing of the record
- Augmenting and correcting the record in the appellate division
- Failure to procure the record
- Transmitting exhibits
- Appendixes
- Application of chapter
- Appointment of appellate counsel
- Notice of appeal
- Time to appeal
- Stay of execution and release on appeal
- Abandoning the appeal
- Normal record on appeal
- Contents of clerk's transcript
- Preparation of clerk's transcript
- Trial court file instead of clerk's transcript
- Record of oral proceedings
- Contents of reporter's transcript
- Preparation of reporter's transcript
- Limited normal record in certain appeals
- Record when trial proceedings were officially electronically recorded
- Statement on appeal
- Exhibits
- Juror-identifying information
- Sending and filing the record in the appellate division
- Augmenting or correcting the record in the appellate division
- Failure to procure the record
- Application
- Notice of briefing schedule
- Briefs by parties and amici curiae
- Contents and form of briefs
- Appeals in which a party is both appellant and respondent
- Oral argument
- Submission of the cause
- Decisions
- Finality and modification of decision
- Rehearing
- Remittitur
- Costs and sanctions in civil appeals
- Application of chapter
- Notice of appeal
- Time to appeal
- Stay of execution on appeal
- Abandoning the appeal
- Normal record on appeal
- Prosecuting attorney's notice regarding the record
- Contents of clerk's transcript
- Preparation of clerk's transcript
- Trial court file instead of clerk's transcript
- Record of oral proceedings
- Statement on appeal
- Record when trial proceedings were officially electronically recorded
- Contents of reporter's transcript
- Preparation of reporter's transcript
- Limited normal record in certain appeals
- Exhibits
- Sending and filing the record in the appellate division
- Augmenting or correcting the record in the appellate division
- Failure to procure the record
- General application of chapter 4
- Notice of briefing schedule
- Briefs
- Contents and form of briefs
- Oral argument
- Application
- Petitions filed by persons not represented by an attorney
- Petitions filed by an attorney for a party
- Opposition
- Notice to trial court
- Filing, finality, and modification of decisions; rehearing; remittitur
- Costs
- Application
- Definitions
- Filing the appeal
- Record on appeal
- Continuances
- Abandonment, dismissal, and judgment for failure to bring to trial
- Examination of witnesses
- Application
- Definitions
- Petitions filed by persons not represented by an attorney
- Petitions filed by an attorney for a party
- Opposition
- Notice to small claims court
- Filing, finality, and modification of decisions; remittitur
- Costs
- Application
- Transfer authority
- Certification for transfer by the appellate division
- Petition for transfer
- Transmitting record to Court of Appeal
- Order for transfer
- Renumbered effective January 1, 2011
- Briefs and argument
- Proceedings in the appellate division after certification or transfer
- Disposition of transferred case
- Finality and remittitur
- Authority
- Publication of appellate opinions
- Partial publication
- Citation of opinions
- Requesting publication of unpublished opinions
- Requesting depublication of published opinions
Title 9. Rules on Law Practice, Attorneys, and Judges 49 rules
- Title and source
- Definitions
- Interim Special Regulatory Assessment for Attorney Discipline [Repealed]
- Inherent power of Supreme Court
- Nomination and appointment of members to the Committee of Bar Examiners
- Authority of the Committee of Bar Examiners
- The California bar examination
- Oath required when admitted to practice law
- Roll of attorneys admitted to practice
- State Bar Client Trust Account Protection Program
- Online reporting by attorneys
- Fingerprinting of applicants and licensees
- Authority of the State Bar Court
- State Bar Court judges
- Standard of review for State Bar Court Review Department
- Petitions for review by licensees of State Bar Court decisions and review of other State Bar decisions
- Petitions for review by the Chief Trial Counsel of State Bar Court decisions
- Petitions for review by State Bar in moral character proceedings
- Grounds for review of State Bar Court decisions in the Supreme Court
- Briefs by parties following grant of review by the Supreme Court
- Requesting depublication of published State Bar Court opinion
- Remand with instructions
- Effective date of disciplinary orders and decisions
- Conditions attached to reprovals
- Duties of disbarred, resigned, or suspended attorneys
- Resignations of licensees of the State Bar with disciplinary charges pending
- Suspension of licensees of the State Bar for failure to comply with judgment or order for child or family support
- Enforcement as money judgment disciplinary orders directing the payment of costs and disciplinary orders requiring reimbursement of the Client Security Fund
- Law school study in schools other than those accredited by the Committee of Bar Examiners
- Minimum continuing legal education
- New Attorney Training
- Certified legal specialists
- Counsel pro hac vice
- Appearances by military counsel
- Registered servicemember attorney and registered servicemember spouse attorney
- Certified law students
- Out-of-state attorney arbitration counsel
- Registered foreign legal consultant
- Registered legal aid attorneys
- Registered in-house counsel
- Attorneys practicing law temporarily in California as part of litigation
- Nonlitigating attorneys temporarily in California to provide legal services
- Provisional Licensure
- Provisional Licensure with Pathway to Full Licensure for Certain Individuals
- Review of determinations by the Commission on Judicial Performance
- Proceedings involving private or public admonishment, censure, removal, retirement, or disqualification of a judge of the Supreme Court
- Committee on Judicial Ethics Opinions
- Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Code of Judicial Ethics
- Nominations and appointments of State Bar trustees
Title 10. Judicial Administration Rules 187 rules
- Authority, duties, and goals of the Judicial Council
- Judicial Council membership and terms
- Nonvoting members
- Nominations and appointments to the Judicial Council
- Notice and agenda of council meetings
- Judicial Council meetings
- Judicial Council internal committees
- Executive and Planning Committee
- Legislation Committee
- Rules Committee
- Litigation Management Committee
- Judicial Branch Budget Committee
- Technology Committee
- Proposals for new or amended rules, standards, or forms; rule-making process in general
- Proposals from members of the public for changes to rules, standards, or forms
- Rule-making procedures
- Judicial Council advisory bodies
- Advisory committee membership and terms
- Nominations and appointments to advisory committees
- Advisory committee meetings
- Duties and responsibilities of advisory committees
- Appellate Advisory Committee
- Civil and Small Claims Advisory Committee
- Criminal Law Advisory Committee
- Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee
- Probate and Mental Health Advisory Committee
- Trial Court Presiding Judges Advisory Committee
- Court Executives Advisory Committee
- Conference of Court Executives [Repealed]
- Center for Judicial Education and Resources Advisory Committee
- Court Interpreters Advisory Panel
- Administrative Presiding Justices Advisory Committee
- Information Technology Advisory Committee
- Traffic Advisory Committee
- Advisory Committee on Providing Access and Fairness
- Collaborative Justice Courts Advisory Committee
- Advisory Committee on Civil Jury Instructions
- Advisory Committee on Criminal Jury Instructions
- Tribal Court-State Court Forum
- Court Security Advisory Committee
- Court Facilities Advisory Committee
- Advisory Committee on Audits and Financial Accountability for the Judicial Branch
- Trial Court Budget Advisory Committee
- Trial Court Facility Modification Advisory Committee
- Workload Assessment Advisory Committee [Repealed]
- Judicial Branch Workers' Compensation Program Advisory Committee
- Data Analytics Advisory Committee
- Task forces, working groups, and other advisory bodies
- Meetings of advisory bodies
- Administrative Director of the Courts (Administrative Director)
- Judicial Council staff
- Role of the Judicial Council
- Acceptance of gifts
- Limitation on intrabranch contracting
- Limitation on contracting with former employees
- Allocation of new fee, fine, and forfeiture revenue
- Judicial branch travel expense reimbursement policy
- Trial Court Budget Working Group [Repealed]
- Court security plans
- Court security committees
- Petition Regarding Disputes Related to Court Security Memoranda of Understanding
- Court facilities standards
- Court facilities policies, procedures, and standards
- Operation and maintenance of court facilities
- Decision making on transfer of responsibility for trial court facilities
- Acquisition, space programming, construction, and design of court facilities
- Claim and litigation procedure
- Claims and litigation management
- Contractual indemnification
- Workers' compensation program
- Judicial branch policies on workplace conduct
- Judicial Branch Statistical Information System (JBSIS)
- Judicial branch technology and data security guidelines
- Generative artificial intelligence use policies
- Reporting civil arrests in court facilities
- Judicial branch education
- Minimum education requirements, expectations, and recommendations
- Ethics orientation for Judicial Council members and for judicial branch employees required to file a statement of economic interests
- Minimum education requirements for Supreme Court and Court of Appeal justices
- Minimum education requirements and expectations for trial court judges and subordinate judicial officers
- Education requirements for family court judges and subordinate judicial officers
- Education requirements and expectations for judges and subordinate judicial officers on domestic violence issues
- Education requirements and recommendations for justices, judges, and subordinate judicial officers on fairness and access
- Content-based and hours-based education for superior court judges and subordinate judicial officers regularly assigned to hear probate proceedings
- Judicial education recommendations for justices, judges, and subordinate judicial officers
- Minimum education requirements for Supreme Court and Court of Appeal clerks/executive officers
- Minimum education requirements for Supreme Court and Court of Appeal managing attorneys, supervisors, and other personnel
- Minimum education requirements for trial court executive officers
- Trial court managers, supervisors, and other personnel
- Content-based and hours-based education for court investigators, probate attorneys, and probate examiners
- Education recommendations for appellate and trial court personnel
- Approved providers; approved course criteria
- Minimum education requirements for Judicial Council employees
- Temporary extension and pro rata reduction of judicial branch education requirements [Repealed]
- Instructor-led training
- Public access to judicial administrative records
- Maintenance of budget and management information
- Judicial sabbatical program
- Use of recycled paper by all courts [Repealed]
- Smoking prohibited in all courts
- Judicial robes
- Superior court management
- Selection and term of presiding judge
- Authority and duties of presiding judge
- Executive committee
- Duties of all judges
- Notification to State Bar of attorney misconduct
- Duties of court executive officer
- Nondiscrimination in court appointments
- Use of gender-neutral language
- Local court rules-adopting, filing, distributing, and maintaining
- Local court forms
- Public access to administrative decisions of trial courts
- Certain demographic data relating to regular grand jurors
- Reciprocal assignment orders
- Limited situations in which a judicial officer may preside remotely from a location other than a courtroom
- Court Employee Labor Relations Rules
- Purpose
- Definitions
- Right and obligation to meet and confer
- Scope of representation
- Governing court employee labor relations
- Transition provisions
- Construction
- Interpretation
- Other provisions
- Enforcement of agreements-petitions (Gov. Code, §§ 71639.5, 71825.2)
- Trial court personnel plans
- Role of subordinate judicial officers
- Qualifications and education of subordinate judicial officers
- Subordinate judicial officers: practice of law
- Subordinate judicial officers: complaints and notice requirements
- Responsibilities of the trial courts for temporary judge programs
- Duties and authority of the presiding judge
- Use of attorneys as court-appointed temporary judges
- Administrator of temporary judges program
- Application procedures to serve as a court-appointed temporary judge
- Performance
- Complaints
- Regional Court Interpreter Employment Relations Committees
- Cross-assignments for court interpreter employees
- Definitions
- Qualifications of court investigators, probate attorneys, and probate examiners
- Administration of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) programs
- Court-related ADR neutrals
- ADR program information
- ADR program administration
- Superior court budgeting
- Superior court budget procedures
- Information access disputes-writ petitions (Gov. Code, § 71675)
- Superior court financial policies and procedures
- Notice of change in court-county relationship
- Court operations
- Reimbursement of costs associated with homicide trials
- Fees to be set by the court
- Acceptance of credit cards by the superior courts
- Acceptance of checks and other negotiable paper
- Disposal of surplus court personal property
- Trial court records
- Court indexes-automated maintenance
- Standards and guidelines for trial court records
- Superior court records sampling program
- Notice of superior court records destruction
- Trial court automation standards
- Case management and calendaring system
- Internal management procedures
- Assigned cases to be tried or dismissed-notification to presiding judge
- Role of presiding judge, supervising judge, criminal division, and master calendar department in courts having more than three judges
- Duties of supervising judge of the criminal division
- Meetings concerning the criminal court system
- Procedures for disposition of cases before the preliminary hearing
- Court self-help centers
- Reports of findings and orders affecting voting rights (Elec. Code, § 2211.5)
- Transfer of causes
- Court of Appeal administrative presiding justice
- Courts of Appeal with more than one division
- Supervising progress of appeals
- Oversight of administrative presiding justices and presiding justices
- Notice of failure to perform judicial duties
- Notification to State Bar of attorney misconduct
- Reviewing court clerk/executive officer
- Court of Appeal minutes
- Preservation and destruction of Court of Appeal records
- Local rules of Courts of Appeal
- Assignments to the appellate division
- Presiding judge
- Sessions
Standards of Judicial Administration 41 rules
- Case management and delay reduction-statement of general principles
- Trial court case disposition time goals
- Procedures for determining the need for an interpreter and a preappearance interview
- Interpreted proceedings-instructing participants on procedure
- Trial management standards
- Uninterrupted jury selection
- Judicial comment on verdict or mistrial
- Appearance by telephone
- Complex civil litigation
- Examination of prospective jurors in civil cases
- Guidelines for adult collaborative treatment courts
- Vacatur relief under Penal Code section 236.14
- Examination of prospective jurors in criminal cases
- Court use of risk/needs assessments at sentencing
- Traffic infraction procedures
- Courtesy notice-traffic procedures [Repealed]
- Traffic infraction trial scheduling
- Uniform standards of practice for providers of supervised visitation and exchange services
- Family court matters
- Juvenile court matters
- Resource guidelines for child abuse and neglect cases
- Settlements or judgments in certain civil cases involving minors or persons with disabilities
- CARE Act proceedings
- Memorandum opinions
- The role of the judiciary in the community
- Model code of ethics for court employees
- Trial court performance standards
- Court's duty to prevent bias
- Appointment of attorneys, arbitrators, mediators, referees, masters, receivers, and other persons
- Gender-inclusive practices for juror identification and juror questionnaires
- Children's waiting room
- Reasonable accommodation for court personnel
- Master jury list
- Court sessions at or near state penal institutions
- Selection of regular grand jury
- Juror complaints
- Local program on waste reduction and recycling
- Implementation and coordination of mediation and other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) programs
- Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) committees
- ADR committees and criteria for referring cases to dispute resolution neutrals
- Use of generative artificial intelligence by judicial officers