Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.58 · Division 2. Waiver of Fees and Costs
Posting notice
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
Each trial court must post in a conspicuous place near the filing window or counter a notice, 8½ by 11 inches or larger, advising litigants in English and Spanish that they may ask the court to waive court fees and costs. The notice must be substantially as follows:
"NOTICE: If you are unable to pay fees and costs, you may ask the court to permit you to proceed without paying them. Ask the clerk for the Information Sheet on Waiver of Superior Court Fees and Costs or Information Sheet on Waiver of Court Fees and Costs for Appeal or Writ Proceedings and the Request to Waive Court Fees."
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 3.58 amended and renumbered effective July 1, 2009; adopted as rule 3.63 effective January 1, 2007.
Formatting
Corrected to the Judicial Council's PDF of the title: the rule page prints “81/2” where the PDF prints “8½”; shown as the PDF prints them.
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_58
- Text hash
- sha256 8ea8fda605ec240c9b2ee802093bc41569c07b97f7a06e0daef17f712696f56b
- 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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