Contra Costa County Superior Court — Department 26 (Judge Ayana K. Young) Pre-Trial Orders and Best Practices (updated September 25, 2025)

High confidence· verified October 8, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment 26 (Judge Ayana K. Young) Pre-Trial Orders and Best Practices (updated September 25, 2025), Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa; posted on the court's Department 26 Information page (https://contracosta.courts.ca.gov/department-26-information) at https://contracosta.courts.ca.gov/system/files/family-law/pre-trial-orders-and-best-practices-dept-26.pdf, fetched 2026-10-08.

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Department 26's family law pre-trial orders and best practices: remote and in-person appearances; filings; e-mails; domestic violence trials and trial submittal deadlines; DV stipulations; non-DV long cause trials (the Income and Expense Declaration, witness lists); and the trial protocol.

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California > First Appellate District > Contra Costa County > Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa > Department 26

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PRE-TRIAL ORDERS AND BEST PRACTICES FOR DEPARTMENT 26 THE HONORABLE AYANA K. YOUNG FAMILY LAW DIVISION Dept26@contracosta.courts.ca.gov Department phone: 925-608-1126 UPDATED 09/25/2025 BEST PRACTICES and PRE-TRIAL ORDERS Remote and in-person appearances: Parties may appear in person or remotely for short cause matters. Parties do not need to submit written requests to appear remotely. If remote a

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa — court website
Source health: Healthy · checked September 28, 2026
Effective date: September 25, 2025
Last verified: October 8, 2026benchpath-ca-t4-contra-costa-2026-10-08

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-08 (California T4 Contra Costa build 2026-10-08) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-contra-costa/docs/family-law/pre-trial-orders-and-best-practices-dept-26.pdf (227884 bytes, sha256 2d6fe3875ed5614c000170bbc7c4757b7b2bf5b719288fec6d7ba6dd375f6a71; 6 pages) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow): page marks and running headers or footers removed as chrome; lines reflowed into the document's paragraphs; proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. Attached to Judge Ayana K. Young: the card is Department 26's, where the court's Directory of Judicial Departments (effective September 14, 2026) seats Judge Ayana K. Young.

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