Cal. Rules of Court, rule 5.46 · Article 2. Special Procedures
Waiver of fees and costs-Supreme Court or Court of Appeal
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
(a) Application
Rule 8.26 of the appellate rules specifies the procedure and forms for applying for an initial waiver of court fees and costs in the Supreme Court or Court of Appeal.
(b) Information
Parties may refer to rule 8.26 for information about:
(1) Applying for a fee waiver in appeals, writ proceedings, and petitions for review;
(2) Required forms requesting a fee waiver;
(3) The confidentiality of fee waiver applications and hearings;
(4) Time required for the court to grant a fee waiver; and
(5) Denial of a fee waiver application.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 5.46 adopted effective January 1, 2013.
Title 5, Family and Juvenile Rules-Division 1, Family Rules-Chapter 4, Starting and Responding to a Family Law Case; Service of Papers; adopted January 1, 2013.
Title 5, Family and Juvenile Rules-Division 1, Family Rules-Chapter 4, Starting and Responding to a Family Law Case; Service of Papers-Article 1, Summonses, Notices, and Declarations; adopted 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_46
- Text hash
- sha256 fc2917cb660f085a46cd0aae31301d30a0af61a266b448b00385737272b4abaa
- 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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