Cal. Rules of Court, rule 5.411 · Chapter 14. Default Proceedings and Judgments
Stipulated judgments
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
(a) Format
A stipulated judgment (which must be attached to form FL-180 or form FL-250) may be submitted to the court for signature as an uncontested matter or at the time of the hearing on the merits and must contain the exact terms of any judgment proposed to be entered in the case. At the end, immediately above the space reserved for the judge's signature, the stipulated judgment must contain the following:
The foregoing is agreed to by:
__________________________ (Petitioner) ____________________________ (Respondent)
Approved as conforming to the agreement of the parties:
____________________________ (Attorney for Petitioner) ____________________________ (Attorney for Respondent)
(b) Disposition of all matters required
A stipulated judgment must include disposition of all matters subject to the court's jurisdiction for which a party seeks adjudication or an explicit reservation of jurisdiction over any matter not proposed for disposition at that time. A stipulated judgment constitutes a written agreement between the parties as to all matters covered by the stipulation.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 5.411 adopted effective January 1, 2013.
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/five/rule5_411
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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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