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Cal. Rules of Court, rule 1.37 · Chapter 4. Judicial Council Forms

Use of forms

Verbatim from the official edition

Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)

A person serving and filing a Judicial Council form must use the current version of the form adopted or approved by the council, unless a rule in the California Rules of Court allows the use of a different form.

Notes and commentary — not rule text

History

Rule 1.37 adopted effective January 1, 2007.

Source of truth

Edition
As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
Official file
https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/one/rule1_37
Text hash
sha256 1080c19fec400a14ab35ff967bdc47e08e18b14376d06ed994fb61fff648777a
Composed by
compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph

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