No pleadings filed that do not comply with the California Rules of Court and Local Rules of Court; all documents legible and all papers presented for filing pre-punched in the standard two-hole position; only one conformed copy of any filed document provided, copies not returned by mail without a self-addressed stamped envelope; checks and money orders payable to Kern County Superior Court; a check returned unpaid - a notice giving the filing party twenty-two days to pay by cash or cashier's check plus a $50.00 returned check fee (G.C. 71386), the document destroyed without further notice on a failure to respond; and the statewide and Kern County fee schedules (the latest local schedule effective 03/17/2025) and the notices of fee changes.
California > Fifth Appellate District > Kern County > Superior Court of California, County of Kern
Overview No pleadings may be filed that do not comply with the California Rules of Court and Local Rules of Court. All documents must be legible. All papers presented for filing must be pre-punched in the standard two-hole position. This office will provide only one conformed copy of any filed document. Copies of documents submitted for filing will not be returned by mail unless a self-addressed stamped envelope is provided. Unless otherwise noted, make checks/money orders payable to Kern County Superior Court. If a check is returned unpaid to this office, a notice will be sent to the filing party stating they have twenty-two days in which to pay the check by cash or cashier's check plus a $50.00 returned check fee pursuant to G.C. 71386. Failure to respond to this notice will result in the destruction of the document without further notice. Fee Schedules STATE: Judicial Council of California Statewide Fee Schedules LOCAL: Fee Schedules: Kern County Fee Schedule (effective 03/17/2025) Kern County Fee Schedule (effective 07/01/2024) Kern County Fee Schedule (effective 01/01/2024) Kern County Fee Schedule (effective 01/01/2023) - Revised Kern County Fee Schedule (effective 01/01/2023) Kern County Fee Schedule (effective 01/01/2022) Kern County Fee Schedule (effective 01/01/2020) Kern County Fee Schedule (effective 01/01/2016) Notices: Notice of Fee Changes (effective 07/01/2024) Notice of Fee Changes (effective 01/01/2024) Notice of Fee Changes (effective 01/01/2023) - Revised Notice of Fee Changes (effective 01/01/2023) Notice of Fee Changes (effective 01/01/2022) Notice of Fee Changes (effective 01/01/2020) Miscellaneous: News Release: Civil Filing Fees Copy Fees
Overview No pleadings may be filed that do not comply with the California Rules of Court and Local Rules of Court. All documents must be legible. All papers presented for filing must be pre-punched in the standard two-hole position. This office will provide only one conformed copy of any filed document. Copies of documents submitted for filing will not be returned by mail unless a self-addressed s
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-14 (California T4 Kern build 2026-10-14) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-kern/pages/forms-filing__court-filing-fee-and-fee-schedules.html (the page as fetched 2026-10-14; 638412 bytes, sha256 219f827293ba517a2390ddee3b6d59b8024684e7a870104a418aaa68f9d2840c) with the Orange HTML composer (compose-site.py, the Judicial Council theme's area): the article's content sections (section.jcc-section), news bodies (div.jcc-news-full) and title banners (div.jcc-hero; 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 (the page title, “Court Filing Fee and Fee Schedules”); proof (the multiset of non-space characters equals the containers' text less chrome and scripts) passes. Review note: The page lists a local fee schedule effective 03/17/2025 hosted on kerncourts.sharepoint.com, whose robots.txt disallows every agent (read 2026-10-14T12:42:28.248Z) - not captured; the schedules captured on the court's own host run to January 1, 2023 (held: statewide fees).
6 verbatim requirements on divisional requirements in GIUSEPPINA MIRANDA's division.
4 verbatim requirements on divisional requirements in HILARY CREARY's division.