Cal. Rules of Court, rule 7.104 · Chapter 3. Pleadings
Execution and verification of amended pleadings, amendments to pleadings, and supplements to pleadings; use of Judicial Council forms
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
(a) Amended pleading and amendment to a pleading
(1) All persons required to sign a pleading must sign an amended pleading. One of the persons required to verify a pleading must verify an amended pleading.
(2) All persons required to sign a pleading must sign an amendment to that pleading. One of the persons required to verify a pleading must verify an amendment to that pleading.
(3) A Judicial Council form must be used for an amended pleading, with the word "Amended" added to its caption, if the form was used for the pleading that is amended. A Judicial Council form must not be used for an amendment to a pleading.
(b) Supplement to a pleading
(1) A supplement to a pleading must be signed and verified by one of the persons who were required to sign and verify the pleading that is supplemented. However, the court may, in the exercise of its discretion, accept for filing and consider a supplement to a pleading signed under penalty of perjury by an attorney for the party offering it, where the information contained in the supplement is particularly within the knowledge of the attorney.
(2) A Judicial Council form must not be used for a supplement to a pleading.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 7.104 adopted effective January 1, 2003.
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/seven/rule7_104
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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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