Cal. Rules of Court, rule 10.612 · Chapter 1. General Rules on Trial Court Management
Use of gender-neutral language
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
Each court must use gender-neutral language in all new local rules, forms, and documents and must review and revise those now in use to ensure that they are written in gender-neutral language.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 10.612 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/ten/rule10_612
- Text hash
- sha256 470938e642ad083dd85a6d7d7c7a354ab11755c2293dab5398b352ac2fa77278
- 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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