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Chapter 16 (Rules 16.01 to 16.04): the communication protocol for Domestic Violence and Child Custody Orders mandated by rule 5.445, the criminal, family and juvenile law departments to communicate and exchange information prior to issuing protective orders and child custody and visitation orders (16.01); no family or juvenile court protective order or custody order in conflict with an order of the criminal court, whose order controls (16.02); the court issuing a criminal court protective order may, after consultation with the family or juvenile court, modify it to allow or to restrict contact (16.03); and a family or juvenile court order may coexist with a criminal court protective order, any order permitting contact to provide for the safe exchange of the children and not to violate a “no contact order”, the order to specify the date, time, place and manner of transfer of the child (Family Code section 3100) (16.04).
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CHAPTER 16—DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COORDINATION RULES 16.01 Court Communication This chapter sets forth the communication protocol for Domestic Violence and Child Custody Orders, as mandated by California Rules of Court, rule 5.445. The Court’s criminal, family, and juvenile law departments shall communicate and exchange information with each other prior to issuing protective orders and child custody and visitation orders to determine if such orders have already been issued as to the same parties and/or children in any other department. (Effective 7/1/08; Amended 7/1/2015) 16.02 Avoiding Conflicting Orders No department of the family or juvenile court shall issue a protective order or custody order in conflict with an order of the criminal court. In the event conflicting orders are issued inadvertently, the order of the criminal court controls. (Effective 7/1/08) 16.03 Modification of Criminal Orders A court issuing a criminal court protective order may, after consultation with the appropriate department of the family and/or juvenile court, modify the criminal court protective order to allow or to restrict contact between the restrained person and his or her children, spouse, or other protected person. (Effective 7/1/08) 16.04 Coexisting Criminal and Family or Juvenile Orders A family or juvenile court order may coexist with a criminal court protective order, subject to the following conditions: A. Any order permitting contact between the restrained person and his or her children shall provide for the safe exchange of the children. B. Any order permitting contact between the restrained person and his or her children shall not contain language, either printed or handwritten, that violates a “no contact order” issued by the criminal court. C. Safety of all parties shall be the court’s paramount concern. The family and/or juvenile court order shall specify the date, time, place, and manner of transfer of the child, as provided in Family Code section 3100. (Effective 7/1/08; Amended 7/1/2015)
CHAPTER 16—DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COORDINATION RULES 16.01 Court Communication This chapter sets forth the communication protocol for Domestic Violence and Child Custody Orders, as mandated by California Rules of Court, rule 5.445. The Court’s criminal, family, and juvenile law departments shall communicate and exchange information with each other prior to issuing protective orders and child custody an
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-12 (California T4 Amador build 2026-10-12) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-amador/docs/local-rules/2025-01-01_local-rules-court-accessible.pdf (the court's rule book, its cover “SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF AMADOR Local Rules of Court Effective Date: January 1, 2025”, as fetched 2026-10-12; 2731170 bytes, sha256 a1d85880106808eb0665ed0313fc1d63b254623347ace78066f5cee3167f614e; 86 pages; this part PDF pages 67 to 68, printed pages 66 to 67) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow): the preface and the rules (PDF pages 6 to 70, printed 5 to 69) composed as one text and cut at the preface's heading and the eighteen chapter headings, each matched once as a whole line (no chapter opens a page of its own); each page's running header (“State of California Superior Court” / “County of Amador”) and running footer (“Revised 01/01/2025”, the page number, “Z/local rules/2025-01.01”, “www.amadorcourt.org”) removed as chrome (390 lines); lines reflowed into the rules' paragraphs, each rule's number set with its title, each lettered or numbered subdivision starting a line and each rule's history (“(Effective ...)”) on a line of its own; no table in the rules; the strike report (review/strike-report-2026-10-12.txt) lists 20 struck runs on 23 pages - every mark, rendered and read (review/render/strike-marks-2026-10-12.png), is a short filled tick, red or black, crossing one printed letter or a space inside a word, or a forms table's rule (PDF pages 72 and 85) - no text is struck, and the book is composed without strike-out; 5 whitespace-only fixes (build/book-fixes.json: the headings of Rules 1.02, 13.10 and 17.05, each printed on a line of its own, set apart from the first sentence the reflow ran onto them; Rule 8.14(F)'s heading, printed “F. Time” / “Limits:”, set as one line; two bullets of Rule 11.06(A)'s list of calendars, which the reflow joined, set apart); the vertical-gap, short-line, page-break, bold, false-break, fragment and row audits (custody file book_extra_audits.py; review/book-extra-audits-2026-10-12.txt and review/book-audits-after-fixes-2026-10-12.txt) list candidates read one by one (build/book_fixes.py) - one gap junction, two page breaks, two fragments, four two-line rule titles and Rule 6.04(C)(1)'s unfinished last sentence kept as printed; proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. The cover (PDF page 1), the table of contents (2 to 5), the appendix of local forms (71 to 72), the filing instructions and summary of changes (73), the alphabetical index (74 to 78), the list of effective dates (79 to 84) and the appendix of local forms ordered by name (85 to 86) belong to no card.
Division XI: information forms for data processing (Rule 11.2); required action - action taken on all calendared cases and a future date always set (Rule 11.19); and pro tem judges - an attorney named as a plaintiff in a civil or small claims case may not sit as a judge pro-tem during the case or within six months following its resolution, nor one named as a defendant in two or more such cases (Rule 11.22). Rules 11.1, 11.3 to 11.5, 11.7 to 11.18, 11.20 and 11.21 are repealed, and Rule 11.6 (voluntary arbitration; see Local Rule 10.2) was repealed and renumbered.
Duval County's indigent-defense and magistration rules under the Texas Fair Defense Act (S.B. 7): who may be booked into the county jail and on what paper; arrest-case numbering; presentment to a magistrate within 48 hours (art. 15.16); the magistrate's warnings, counsel inquiry, interpreter duty, indigence determination and appointment of counsel within 24 hours of a request; the alternative appointment plan under art. 26.04(g)-(h) with annual applications, seven attorney categories (capital, first and second degree, third degree/state jail/misdemeanor, competency, appeals, post-conviction, extradition), CLE and experience standards, random rotation within each category, written acceptance within 48 hours, first contact by the end of the next working day, replacement and suspension of counsel, fee applications within five days of completing services and the compensation attachment ($500 pleas; $175/$150 hourly; $1,400 per jury-trial day; appellate caps); bail schedules by offense class with a personal bond office (fee $20 or 3%), pre-trial supervision and revocation hearings within two working days; arraignment settings and notice; repeal of conflicting rules.