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Chapter 7, Part 1, Rules 732 to 734: mutually agreed experts encouraged and, in their absence, an expert the court may appoint under Evidence Code section 730, the expert's written reports transmitted to each counsel or unrepresented party at least thirty (30) calendar days before trial and deemed in evidence, a party demanding to cross-examine the expert arranging the expert's attendance and listing the expert on its Witness List (732); the Clerk of the Court or a designee appointed as elisor to sign a document one of the parties will not or cannot execute, the application and proposed order designating The Clerk of the Court or clerk's designee and not a specific court employee, the document attached to the proposed order, a declaration of necessity, and a notary public present when notarization is required (733); and a proposed Restraining Order After Hearing on form DV-130 provided with a request for a domestic violence restraining order, or a hard copy presented at the hearing, or the order prepared and submitted by close of business on the day of the hearing (734)
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RULE 732 – Experts Pursuant to California Evidence Code § 730 1. The court encourages mutually agreed upon experts, especially for such issues as custody evaluations, business valuations, business cash flow analyses (when relevant to support), and real estate and personal property valuations. In the absence of a mutually agreed upon expert, the court may appoint its own expert under Evidence Code section 730. 2. If one or more written reports are issued by such an expert, copies of all such reports shall be transmitted to each counsel or unrepresented party at least thirty (30) calendar days before trial. Written reports prepared by a § 730 expert shall be deemed "in evidence" for all purposes subject to the other party's right to arrange for the expert's presence at the trial as provided for herein and cross-examine the expert. 3. If a § 730 expert's written report was prepared and will be offered at trial, and either counsel or an unrepresented party demands the right to cross-examine the expert at trial with respect to the matters in the report, that party shall be responsible for arranging for the attendance of the expert at trial and the expert's name shall be included on that party's Witness List filed in connection with the trial. If there is no written report of the expert, the party intending to call the expert at trial shall be responsible for making the witness available on the day of trial. (Eff. 7/1/20; renumbered 7/1/21) RULE 733 – Appointment of Elisor Where one of the parties will not or cannot execute a document necessary to carry out a court order, the Clerk of the Court, or his or her authorized representative or designee may be appointed as an elisor to sign the document. When applying for an appointment of an elisor, the application and proposed order must designate ‘The Clerk of the Court or clerk’s designee’ as the elisor and indicate for whom the elisor is being appointed and in what capacity they are to sign the document. The application must not set forth a specific court employee. The order must expressly identify the document being signed and a copy of the document must be attached to the proposed order. The original document, presented for signature by the elisor, must match the copy of the document attached to the proposed order. The declaration supporting the application must include specific facts establishing the necessity for the appointment of the elisor. If the elisor is signing documents requiring notarization, the applicant must arrange for a notary public to be present when the elisor signs the document(s). (Eff. 7/1/2020; renumbered 7/1/21) RULE 734 – Domestic Violence Restraining Orders – Proposed Orders After Hearing Upon submission of a request for a domestic violence restraining order, the petitioner must also provide a proposed Restraining Order After Hearing (Form DV-130). If no proposed order has been submitted and the request for a restraining order is granted at the hearing, the petitioner should be prepared to present a hard copy of the proposed order at the hearing. Otherwise, the petitioner must immediately prepare an order to be submitted to the court no later than close of business on the day of the hearing, unless otherwise ordered by the court. (Eff. 7/1/25) (RULES 735 - 739 Reserved)
RULE 732 – Experts Pursuant to California Evidence Code § 730 1. The court encourages mutually agreed upon experts, especially for such issues as custody evaluations, business valuations, business cash flow analyses (when relevant to support), and real estate and personal property valuations. In the absence of a mutually agreed upon expert, the court may appoint its own expert under Evidence Code
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-15 (California T4 Kings build 2026-10-15) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-kings/docs/local-rules/kingscountylocalrules_07-01-26.pdf (the court's rule book, its cover “SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF KINGS Local Rules of Court (July 1, 2026)”, as fetched 2026-10-15; 1404126 bytes, sha256 5afc44ac2f5fa421cca2659bfcef2f97cc69851872a6b71f3834afa29c1bc7e3; 136 pages; this part PDF pages 107 to 108, page numbers 100 to 101) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow): the rules and the appendix (PDF pages 8 to 112) composed as one text and cut at the chapter headings, and within Chapters 1, 3, 5 and 7 at a part or rule heading (“RULE 126 – Submission of Documents for Filing”, “RULE 310 – Joining Motions of Other Parties”, “Part 2 – Rules Applicable to Felony Cases and Misdemeanor Cases Joined or Consolidated with a Felony for Trial”, “RULE 710 – Applications for Family Law Court Orders”, “RULE 720 – Custody Orders and Agreements”, “RULE 732 – Experts Pursuant to California Evidence Code § 730”, “Part 2 – Child Support and the Kings County Department of Child Support Services”, “APPENDIX A”), each matched once as a whole line; the three rules whose instructions print example case numbers - Rule 125 (E-Filing Rules), Rule 309 (Legal Research Copy) and Rule 731 (Judicial Notice in Family Law Matters - Department 4) - cut out as parts of their own and held from publication (a case number's form, even an example's, is never published); every page's running head (“KINGS COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT – LOCAL RULES”, named) and footer lines (the chapter's name, “Appendix A” and “Page 1” to “Page 105”, named) removed as chrome - 314 chrome lines; lines reflowed into the rules' paragraphs, each rule number and lettered or numbered subdivision starting a line; the strike report (review/strike-report-2026-10-15.txt) finds one blank struck run in the book, on PDF page 115 (the Index by Number, outside the rules); 3 whitespace-only fixes (build/book-fixes.json: Rule 102's definition of “CASA” split from the definition before it; Rule 604's “within Rule 5.546 of the California Rules of Court” rejoined to its sentence; the Juvenile Court Rules' CASA contact's two lines split); the vertical-gap, short-line, page-break, false-break and structural-break audits (review/book-gap-audit-2026-10-15.txt, review/book-short-lines-2026-10-15.txt, review/book-extra-audits-2026-10-15.txt) list candidates read one by one (build/book_fixes.py) - the rest kept as printed; 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 (2 to 7), the Index by Number (113 to 119), the Subject Matter Index (120 to 126) and the List of Effective Dates (127 to 136) 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.