Cal. Rules of Court, rule 2.135 · Chapter 2. General Rules on Forms
Filing of handwritten or hand-printed forms
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
The clerk must not reject for filing or refuse to file any Judicial Council or local court form solely on the ground that:
(1) It is completed in handwritten or hand-printed characters; or
(2) The handwriting or hand-printing is a color other than blue-black or black.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 2.135 amended and renumbered effective January, 2007; adopted as rule 201.4 effective January 1, 2003.
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/two/rule2_135
- Text hash
- sha256 3caf6268ec910667092140c0d916eccaa7a9be857fed436601a037429919a36a
- 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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