Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.2228 · Article 1. General Provisions
Judgment
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
The court should issue its decision and final order, writ, or judgment within 30 days of the completion of the hearing in the action. The court must include a written statement of the factual and legal basis for its decision. Code of Civil Procedure section 632 does not apply to actions governed by the rules in this division.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 3.2228 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_2228
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- sha256 99695e24e925b416035670f778ef9624038799ecc582bf12fc6395a987badf76
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- 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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Code of Civil Procedure
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