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Contra Costa County Superior Court — Department 7 (Judge Peter Chang) Long-Cause Pre-Trial Order (V1.1)

High confidence· verified October 8, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment 7 (Judge Peter Chang) Long-Cause Pre-Trial Order (V1.1), Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa; posted on the court's Dept 7 Information page (https://contracosta.courts.ca.gov/dept-7-information) at https://contracosta.courts.ca.gov/system/files/family-law/d7-pre-trial-order-v11.pdf, fetched 2026-10-08.

Summary

Department 7's long-cause pre-trial order: expert witness disclosures 50 days before trial; declarations of final disclosure 45 days before trial (Family Code § 2106); discovery completed 30 days before trial; discovery motions heard 15 days before the trial date (Section 2024.020), witness lists, the meet and confer and Income & Expense Declarations; 7 days before trial the disputed issues list, trial briefs (20 pages), joint motions in limine, the Section 4320 analysis and exhibits (hard copy sets, electronic exhibits on a USB drive); and the additional requirements (service, electronics, witnesses, objections, closing trial briefs and statements of decision under Code of Civil Procedure section 632).

Applies to

California > First Appellate District > Contra Costa County > Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa > Department 7

Source of truth

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA DEPARTMENT 7 JUDGE PETER CHANG FAMILY LAW DIVISION Long-Cause Pre-Trial Order Before the long-cause trial of any issue, the parties are ordered to comply with the following requirements. Failure to comply may result in sanctions, including issue sanctions. 50 Days before trial: Expert Witness Disclosures: Unless otherwise stipulated,

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa — court website
Source health: Healthy · checked September 28, 2026
Effective date: —
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/d7-pre-trial-order-v11.pdf (127109 bytes, sha256 b0611eb966f5271fb6ebf857415857bd46e95cfcc8a46f51548141c3fc464a22; 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. Documented settings (whitespace-only or same-character changes; the proofs hold): three indented paragraph starts the reflow joined to the line before (“Income & Expense Declarations:”, “A party may alternatively lodge exhibits” and “Exhibits in electronic form are to be on an USB drive.”) set on their own lines (whitespace fixes). Attached to Judge Peter Chang: the card is Department 7's, where the court's Directory of Judicial Departments (effective September 14, 2026) seats Judge Peter Chang. Review note: The order's exhibit examples print a placeholder case number ("MSD20-00001 Pet. Exh. 008"; "MSD20-00001 Resp. Exh. A"), a format example, not a case; the document screen moved the file to quarantine on that match and the check by hand restored it (build/doc_hand_checks.py).