Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.57 · Division 2. Waiver of Fees and Costs
Amount of lien for waived fees and costs
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
To determine the amount of the court lien for waived fees and costs, any party to a civil action in which an initial fee waiver has been granted may ask the clerk to calculate the total amount of court fees and costs that have been waived as of the date of the request.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 3.57 adopted effective July 1, 2009.
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_57
- Text hash
- sha256 7e9c050ba897ddf9b2fe111f6acabeaf632675cd9ac553cf14a6a7e069f110c7
- 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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