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Section 14 (Rules 14.01 to 14.05): no matter under the Family Law Act heard until counsel, with their clients present or available, have met and conferred in good faith and exchanged documents, non-compliance able to result in the matter being dropped from the calendar or continued (14.01); court-designated mediators authorized to render a recommendation to the court as to custody or visitation (14.02); the Family Law Facilitator, under the supervision of the Presiding Judge, providing the services of Family Code Section 10004 and the duties of Section 10005 (14.03); a court-appointed investigator under Evidence Code Section 730 and Family Code Sections 1816, 3110 and 3111, no peremptory challenge (14.04(A), 14.04(B)); no ex parte contact with the investigator on the merits of the case (14.04(C)); the court generally to order the report filed within sixty (60) calendar days from the date of appointment and distributed ten (10) calendar days prior to hearing (14.04(E)); the report confidential (14.04(F)); grievances made in writing, signed, under penalty of perjury (14.04(G)); and the clerk's office to accept handwritten pleadings that are neat and legible in all family law matters from pro per litigants in blue or black ink (14.05).
California > Third Appellate District > Colusa County > Superior Court of California, County of Colusa
SECTION 14 FAMILY LAW RULES RULE 14.01 MEET AND CONFER REQUIREMENT No matter (including request for order, or trial) in a proceeding brought under the Family Law Act will be heard until counsel, with their respective clients either physically present or immediately physically available, have met and conferred in a good faith effort to resolve all issues. Such conference shall include an exchange between counsel of all documents which may be relevant to the contested issues or which may be offered in evidence. At the outset of the hearing on the matter, counsel will be expected to represent to the court that there has been compliance with this Rule. Non-compliance with this Rule may result in the matter being dropped from the calendar or continued, or the rejection of documents not exchanged, or other appropriate sanctions. (Amended, effective 7/1/15, previously adopted, effective 7/1/92) RULE 14.02 RECOMMENDATIONS OF MEDIATOR Court-designated mediators of child custody and visitation disputes are hereby authorized to render a recommendation to the court as to the custody or visitation of the child, or children, involved. (Adopted, effective 7/1/92) RULE 14.03 FAMILY LAW FACILITATOR The Family Law Facilitator provided for pursuant to Division 14 of the Family Code, shall under the supervision, and at the direction of the Presiding Judge or the Presiding Judge's designee, in addition to providing the services set forth in Family Code Section 10004, be responsible to discharge the additional duties set forth in Family Code Section 10005. (Adopted, effective 7/20/98) RULE 14.04 APPOINTMENT OF COURT-APPOINTED INVESTIGATOR (A) APPLICABILITY In any case in which custody and/or visitation are in dispute, the court may appoint an investigator and order that a child custody/visitation investigation and/or evaluation be conducted if, in the opinion of the court, or upon the recommendation of a mediator, there is a need for such service. The court shall appoint an investigator in accordance with Evidence Code Section 730 and Family Code Sections 1816, 3110 and 3111. (B) CHALLENGES TO COURT-APPOINTED INVESTIGATOR No peremptory challenge of a court-appointed investigator shall be allowed. (C) EX PARTE CONTACT PROHIBITED No party or attorney for a party shall initiate contact with a court-appointed investigator, orally or in writing, to discuss the merits of the case without giving the other party notice and an opportunity to be present or to receive a copy of a written communication. Nothing in this Rule shall prohibit the court-appointed investigator from contacting either party or attorney. (D) CONTACT BETWEEN COURT-APPOINTED INVESTIGATOR AND MINOR CHILDREN The court relies on the judgment of the investigator and other persons appointed, as a part of the investigation, in making decisions as to whether children will be interviewed, under what circumstances children will be interviewed, and in justifying such decisions in a particular case. Except in extraordinary circumstances, including the potential for danger to the child, children will be informed that the information provided by the child will not be confidential. A child seen by the investigator with one parent will also be seen with the other parent. At the discretion of the investigator, interviews with siblings may be separate. Unless ordered by the court, an investigation shall not be based on an interview with only one parent. (E) INVESTIGATION REPORT The court order appointing the investigator shall state the date the court-appointed investigator shall return and file the report with the court. Generally, the court will order the report filed within sixty (60) calendar days from the date of appointment. The date for return of the report may be extended by order of the court or written agreement of the parties. The report shall be in writing and shall be distributed to the court, all counsel, and to the parties if they are unrepresented ten (10) calendar days prior to hearing. All written reports and recommendations of the court-appointed investigator shall be served upon the parties or attorneys consistent with Family Code Section 3111. (F) ACCESS TO THE REPORT Any written report or recommendation from the court-appointed investigator or the person appointed by the court to render a report as a part of the investigation shall be confidential and unavailable to any person except the court, the parties, their attorneys and any person to whom the court expressly grants access by written order made with prior notice to all parties. No person who has access to a report shall make copies of the report or disclose the contents of the report to any child. (G) GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE Grievances raised in connection with court-ordered investigations shall be made in writing, signed, under penalty of perjury, by the party filing the grievance, and addressed to the Judge. (Amended, effective 1/1/07) RULE 14.05 ACCEPTANCE OF HANDWRITTEN PLEADINGS FOR PRO PER PARTIES The Judges of the Superior Court recognize that improving the public's access to the court is a high priority. The clerk's office will accept handwritten pleadings that are neat and legible in all family law matters from pro per litigants in blue or black ink. The judicial officer and/or clerk's office have the discretion to reject handwritten pleadings that are not neat or legible. (Adopted, effective 1/1/00)
SECTION 14 FAMILY LAW RULES RULE 14.01 MEET AND CONFER REQUIREMENT No matter (including request for order, or trial) in a proceeding brought under the Family Law Act will be heard until counsel, with their respective clients either physically present or immediately physically available, have met and conferred in a good faith effort to resolve all issues. Such conference shall include an exchange b
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-12 (California T4 Colusa build 2026-10-12) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-colusa/docs/local-rules-15-final.pdf (the court's rule book, its cover “COLUSA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT LOCAL RULES REVISED AND EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2015”, as fetched 2026-10-12; 710456 bytes, sha256 ab900b287107469f5cc0e8af39fc1af062663a6299f9ad7ccfc166e02655e0fb; 73 pages; this section PDF pages 53 to 55, printed pages 41 to 43) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow): the rules (PDF pages 13 to 65, printed 1 to 53) composed as one text and cut at the sixteen section headings “SECTION 1” to “SECTION 16”, each matched once as a whole line followed by the section's title (a section may begin mid-page); the running header of every page (“COLUSA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT”) and its page number (“- 1 -”), each named and a whole line in its band, removed as chrome - 106 chrome lines; lines reflowed into the rules' paragraphs, each rule's number and title (“RULE 1.07 TIMELY APPEARANCE OF COUNSEL AND REQUIRED NOTIFICATION”), each lettered or numbered subdivision starting a line, each section heading and each history line (“(Amended, effective ...)”, “(Adopted, effective ...)”) on a line of its own; the strike report (review/strike-report-2026-10-12.txt) finds 5 struck runs on 2 pages, spaces only (a form's underlined blanks) - the book composed without strike_out; no table on the rule pages; 19 whitespace-only fixes (build/book-fixes.json: three lines wrapped at a parenthesized letter or number the reflow took for a label rejoined - Rules 1.12(C), 15.06(A)(1) and 15.08 - and Rule 15.10's suggested form of summary of account set item by item, each label with its schedule line and “$”); 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) - the rest kept as printed (the rule numbers with their titles on one row, the words of justified title rows, Rule 4.01(3)'s two-line heading, the inner labels of Rules 2.09(B) and 3.10(E)); 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 (3 to 11), Appendix “A” (the Certification of Attorney Competency form, 67), the index (69 to 73) and four blank pages (2, 12, 66 and 68) 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.