Cal. Rules of Court, rule 1.42 · Chapter 4. Judicial Council Forms
Forms not to be rejected
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
A court must not reject for filing a Judicial Council form for any of the following reasons:
(1) The form lacks the preprinted title and address of the court;
(2) The form lacks the name of the clerk;
(3) The preprinted title and address of another court or its clerk's name is legibly modified;
(4) The form lacks the court's local form number;
(5) The form lacks any other material added by a court, unless the material is required by the Judicial Council;
(6) The form is printed by a publisher or another court;
(7) The form is imprinted with the name or symbol of the publisher, unless the name or symbol replaces or obscures any material on the printed form;
(8) The form is legibly and obviously modified to correct a code section number or to comply with the law under which the form is filed; or
(9) The form is not the latest version of the form adopted or approved by the Judicial Council.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 1.42 amended effective January 1, 2007; 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_42
- Text hash
- sha256 661aa4eef4ef10bff804af66c0aa005b4c716ca0dd8a3a7bcfb92900cf62b83e
- 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
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.