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Rule 14 (subdivisions A to D): private counsel appointed for a minor in a guardianship or for a conservatee or proposed conservatee in a conservatorship an active member of the State Bar of California for at least three (3) years, with no disciplinary proceedings pending and no discipline imposed within the twelve (12) months before first availability, and covered by professional liability insurance of at least $100,000 per claim and $300,000 per year (14(A)); guardianship appointments for counsel who within the preceding five (5) years represented at least three (3) wards, three (3) children in juvenile court dependency or delinquency proceedings or three (3) children in custody proceedings under the Family Code, or who qualify under Local Rule 3 or under California Rules of Court, Rule 5.242 and Local Rule 13 (14(B)); conservatorship appointments for counsel who represented at least three (3) conservatees or proposed conservatees in probate or Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) conservatorships or completed any three (3) of the following five (5) tasks (14(B)); the court, with fewer than four (4) authorized judges, reserves the right to waive the qualification requirements (rule 7.1101(e)(1)) (14(B)); three (3) hours of education each calendar year which qualify for mandatory continuing legal education credit required for attorneys certified as specialists in estate planning, trust, and probate law, or the requirements of Local Rule 3 or Local Rule 13 for guardianships of the person only (14(C)); and certification of qualifications before eligibility and of continuing education before March 31st of each year on Judicial Council Form GC-010, submitted to the court but not filed or lodged in a case file (14(D)).
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RULE OF COURT NO. 14 QUALIFICATIONS AND CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIRED OF COUNSEL APPOINTED BY THE COURT IN GUARDIANSHIP AND CONSERVATORSHIP PROCEEDINGS A. BASIC ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS. Each counsel in private practice appointed by the court to represent a minor in a guardianship proceeding and each counsel in private practice appointed by the court to represent a conservatee or proposed conservatee in a conservatorship proceeding must be an active member of the State Bar of California for at least three (3) years immediately preceding the date of appointment. Counsel must have no disciplinary proceedings pending, and no discipline imposed, within the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the date of the first availability for appointment. Private counsel must be covered by professional liability insurance satisfactory to the court in the amount of at least $100,000 per claim and $300,000 per year. B. QUALIFICATIONS FOR APPOINTMENT. (1) Appointments to represent minors in a guardianship proceeding. Counsel may qualify to represent minors in a probate guardianship proceeding if the following requirements are met: (a) Within the five (5) years immediately preceding the date of first availability for appointment, counsel has represented at least: three (3) wards or proposed wards in probate guardianships, three (3) children in juvenile court dependency or delinquency proceedings, or three (3) children in custody proceedings under the Family Code. OR (b) Qualifying for appointments to represent minor children in juvenile dependency proceedings under this court’s Local Rule 3 or qualifying for appointments to represent children in custody proceedings under California Rules of Court, Rule 5.242 and this court’s Local Rule 13. Except as provided in section B(3) of this rule, counsel qualifying for appointment in probate guardianship proceedings under section B(1)(b) of this rule must satisfy the continuing education requirements under this rule as well as the continuing education rules for representing children in juvenile dependency proceedings or for representing children in family law proceedings under Local Rule 13. (2) Appointments to represent conservatees or proposed conservatees in a conservatorship proceeding. Counsel in private practice may qualify to represent conservatees or proposed conservatees in conservatorship proceedings if, within five (5) years immediately preceding the date of first availability for appointment, if the following requirements are met: (a) Counsel has represented at least three (3) conservatees or proposed conservatees in either probate or Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) conservatorships. OR (b) Completed any three (3) of the following five (5) tasks: (i) Represented petitioners for the appointment of a conservator in at least three (3) probate conservatorship proceedings, with representation commencing upon initial contact with the petitioner through the hearing and issuance of letters of conservatorship; (ii) Represented a petitioner, a conservatee or a proposed conservatee, or an interested third party in at least two (2) contested probate or LPS conservatorship matters. A contested matter that qualifies under this item and also qualifies under (i) may be applied toward satisfaction of both items; (iii) Represented a party for whom the court could appoint legal counsel in at least three (3) matters described in Probate Code sections 1470, 1471, 1954, 2356.5, 2357, 2620.2, 3140, or 3205; (iv) Represented fiduciaries in the settlement of a court-filed account and report in at least three (3) separate cases involving any combination of probate conservatorships or guardianships, decedent’s estates, or trust proceedings under division 9 of the Probate Code, and in which said representation continued through filing, hearing, and settlement of the case; or (v) Prepared at least five (5) wills or trusts, five (5) durable powers of attorney for health care, and five (5) durable powers of attorney for asset management. (3) Optional waiver of qualifications under this section. This court, as a court with fewer than four (4) authorized judges, reserves the right to waive the qualification requirements in A and B of this section in accordance with California Rules of Court, rule 7.1101(e)(1). C. CONTINUING EDUCATION. (1) Except as provided in section B(1) of this rule, counsel appointed by the court must complete three (3) hours of education each calendar year which qualify for mandatory continuing legal education credit required by the State Bar for attorneys certified as specialists in estate planning, trust, and probate law. (2) Counsel who are qualified to represent minors in probate guardianship proceedings under section B(1)(b) of this rule, and who are appointed to represent minors in guardianships of the person only, may satisfy the continuing education requirements of this rule by satisfying the continuing education requirements for representing children in juvenile dependency proceedings under this court’s Local Rule 3 or by satisfying the continuing education requirements for representing children in custody proceedings under this court’s Local Rule 13. D. CERTIFICATION OF QUALIFICATIONS AND CONTINUING EDUCATION. Each counsel must certify to the court that he or she is qualified for appointment prior to establishing eligibility for appointment under this rule. Each appointed counsel must certify to the court before March 31st of each year that he or she has completed the required continuing education for the preceding calendar year. Certifications required under this subdivision must be submitted to the court, but will not be filed or lodged in a case file. Judicial Council Form GC-010, Certification of Attorney Concerning Qualifications for Court Appointment in Conservatorships/Guardianships, must be used for satisfying the requirement of this rule. (Effective 7/1/09, as amended 1/1/13)
RULE OF COURT NO. 14 QUALIFICATIONS AND CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIRED OF COUNSEL APPOINTED BY THE COURT IN GUARDIANSHIP AND CONSERVATORSHIP PROCEEDINGS A. BASIC ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS. Each counsel in private practice appointed by the court to represent a minor in a guardianship proceeding and each counsel in private practice appointed by the court to represent a conservatee or proposed conserva
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-12 (California T4 Lassen build 2026-10-12) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-lassen/docs/local-rules/local-rules-court-effective-july-1-2026.pdf (the court's rule book, its cover “SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LASSEN LOCAL RULES OF COURT Effective July 1, 2026”, as fetched 2026-10-12; 902440 bytes, sha256 b04136070555eb679f27e6020412087f261a95fe203b285fa7225070791bc2b4; 112 pages; this rule PDF pages 74 to 76, printed pages 74 to 76) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow): the rules (PDF pages 5 to 100, printed 5 to 100) composed as one text and cut at the nineteen headings “RULE OF COURT NO. 1” to “RULE OF COURT NO. 19”, each matched once as a whole line (a rule may begin mid-page); the running header of every page (“Superior Court of California, County of Lassen”) and its running footer (“Local Rules of Court”, “Rev. 7/1/26”, “www.Lassen.Courts.CA.gov” and the page number), each named and a whole line in its band, removed as chrome - 480 chrome lines; lines reflowed into the rules' paragraphs, each rule's heading and title, each numbered rule (“6.1 TELEPHONIC APPEARANCE RULE.”), each lettered or numbered subdivision starting a line, a line in capitals ending its paragraph, and each history line (“(Effective ...)”) on a line of its own; the strike report (review/strike-report-2026-10-12.txt) finds no struck run on the book's 112 pages; no table on the rule pages; 9 whitespace-only fixes (build/book-fixes.json: Rule 1's “At-Issue” / “Memorandum” sentence rejoined; Rule 7(B)'s excepted case types set row by row, their cells left to right; Rule 15.7(c)'s complaint addresses and Rule 19.3(g)'s claims address each set one printed line to a line; two pairs of Rule 19.4(a)'s fee lines set apart); the vertical-gap, short-line, page-break, bold, false-break, fragment and row audits (custody file book_extra_audits.py; review/book-extra-audits-2026-10-12.txt and review/book-audits-after-fixes-2026-10-12.txt) list candidates read one by one (build/book_fixes.py) - the rest kept as printed (list items without closing punctuation, the run-in bold headings of Rule 19.4(b) and (d), the “OR” lines between alternatives); 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 4), the alphabetical subject index (101 to 110) and the two appendices of local forms (111 and 112) belong to no card. Review note: Carried as printed: Rule 14(B)(2) “if, within five (5) years immediately preceding the date of first availability for appointment, if the following requirements are met”.
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.