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Contra Costa County Superior Court — Department 2 (Hon. Gina Dashman)

High confidence· verified October 8, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment 2 (Hon. Gina Dashman), Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa; the court's web page https://contracosta.courts.ca.gov/department-2-information, fetched 2026-10-08.

Summary

Department 2's best practices and pre-trial orders: courtesy copies in the drop box; DV stipulations (amended DV-110, DV-140 or DV-130; non-CLETS orders prohibited; the DV-116 wording) dropped off in the D2 box; DV trials (Family Code Section 6309; witness and exhibit lists 7 days before trial); e-mails; filings; in-person appearance for MSC, long cause, trial and contempt; non-DV long cause trials and the trial submittal timeline; remote and in-person appearances; the trial protocol; Zoom details.

Applies to

California > First Appellate District > Contra Costa County > Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa > Department 2

Source of truth

Best Practices and Pre-Trial Orders Courtesy Copies If concerned about your pleading not showing up on the docket in time, you may drop a courtesy copy in the Department 2 drop box located upstairs next to the elevator. Do not email courtesy copies to the department unless the court has requested it. Domestic Violence [DV] Stipulations Dept. 2 will accept SIGNED written stipulations and orders, fo

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/pages/department-2-information.html (the page as fetched 2026-10-08; 607521 bytes, sha256 2d0429142b2e685911f04b2975aa526d09aa140fd3f5ce85466a4bd9a0ff885c) with html-compose.py (the Orange composer, with Contra Costa's area): the article's content sections (section.jcc-section), news bodies (div.jcc-news-full) and title banners (div.jcc-hero, which on this site can carry a lead paragraph; the first banner's heading, the page title, is chrome) - the site header, menus, breadcrumb and footer lie outside them; each block starts a line and each table cell is set on its own line; chrome removed: 1 item; proof (the multiset of non-space characters equals the containers' text less chrome and scripts) passes. Attached to Judge Gina Dashman: the page is Department 2's, where the court's Directory of Judicial Departments (effective September 14, 2026) seats Judge Gina Dashman.