Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.2224 · Article 1. General Provisions
Response to petition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
(a) Responsive pleadings and motions
Respondent and any real party in interest must serve and file any answer to the petition; any motion challenging the sufficiency of the petition, including any motion to dismiss the petition; any other response to the petition; any motion to change venue; or any motion to intervene within 10 days after service of petition or complaint on that party or within the time ordered by the court. Any such answer, motion, or other response from the same party must be filed concurrently.
(b) Opposition
Any opposition or other response to a motion challenging the sufficiency of the petition or to change venue must be served and filed within 10 days after the motion is served.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 3.2224 adopted effective July 1, 2014.
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/three/rule3_2224
- Text hash
- sha256 7b446f41874aec8c2562b90e84b854eabbbe752dfb9d7c8071a75f4be2a9dfb8
- 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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