Cal. Rules of Court, rule 5.500 · Chapter 1. Preliminary Provisions-Title and Definitions
Division title
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
The rules in this division may be referred to as the Juvenile Rules.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 5.500 adopted effective January 1, 2007.
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_500
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- 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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