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Standing Order 2018-05 (effective June 5, 2018; an amendment to Standing Order 2006-02): release of information by the Family Law Division to the Human Services Agency, Child Welfare Services (CWS) - evaluators' reports under Family Code sections 3110 and 3111 and Evidence Code section 730, information from minors counsel, mediators' agreements, rationales and recommendations, drug test results and supervised visitation reports, confidential or not; CWS faxing its request (its representative, the parties and the children) to the Family Law Clerk's office at (209) 725-4118; the Family Law Division Supervisor and Senior Processing Clerk authorized to discuss the file, the records viewed at the Family Law Clerk's office or copies e-mailed; and the documents shown to no one but the assigned CWS personnel unless the Family Law or Juvenile Court orders otherwise.
California > Fifth Appellate District > Merced County > Superior Court of California, County of Merced
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF MERCED 627 W. 21st Street Merced, CA 95340 STANDING ORDER #2018-05 EFFECTIVE JUNE 5, 2018 Standing Order #2018-05 is an amendment to Standing Order #2006-02 dated August 11, 2006 and shall replace said standing order. The following standing orders shall apply to release of information by the Merced Superior Court, Family Law Division to the Human Services Agency, Child Welfare Services (herein referred to as "CWS"). Information released pursuant to this standing order will include any and all reports and recommendations of any evaluators appointed pursuant to Family Code section 3110 and 3111, et seq., and/or Evidence Code section 730. It shall further apply to release of information provided by minors counsel appointed under Family Code, section 3150 et seq., and agreements, rationales and/or recommendations of court mediators assigned to mediation per Family Code section 3160 et seq. In addition, this rule will apply to other related confidential information, such as drug test results and reports from supervised visitation programs. The information shall be provided regardless of whether such information is confidential. 1. Initiating Requests: Prior to requesting any information from the court, CWS shall fax to the Family Law Clerk’s office at (209) 725-4118 the name of the CWS representative requesting the information, as well as the names of the parties and children for whom information is requested. 2. Court Liaison: The Family Law Division Supervisor and Senior Processing Clerk, or their designee, are authorized to discuss the information contained in the court file with the CWS representative. 3. Viewing Court Records: If the CWS representative requests to view court records, they shall be made available to the CWS representative at the Family Law Clerk’s office. 4. Copies: If the CWS representative requests copies, the Family Law Division Supervisor and Senior Processing Clerk, or their designee, may e-mail copies of all or a portion of the records to them. The documents provided shall not be copied or shown to anyone other than the CWS personnel assigned to the case, unless expressly ordered by the Family Law or Juvenile Court. DONALD J. PROIETTI PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF MERCED 627 W. 21st Street Merced, CA 95340 STANDING ORDER #2018-05 EFFECTIVE JUNE 5, 2018 Standing Order #2018-05 is an amendment to Standing Order #2006-02 dated August 11, 2006 and shall replace said standing order. The following standing orders shall apply to release of information by the Merced Superior Court, Family Law Division to the Human Services Age
Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-15 (California T4 Merced build 2026-10-15) by eye from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-merced/docs/general/standing-order-07072026.pdf (11638206 bytes, sha256 3a64db27e5391b6e9054feb5caef786433c02e5204366a95c135937e05e1630f; the compilation “ACTIVE STANDING ORDERS 2006 to Present”, linked as “All Current Standing Orders”; 70 pages - 36 covered by scanned page images (each with a machine reading laid with it - not a card's source), 34 born-digital (one font of the juvenile competency protocol's pages draws its characters shifted)); this order the compilation's pages 21 and 22, scanned page images: read on the page images rendered at 200 dpi (vision/img/so-p21.png to so-p22.png), transcribed with the compilation's pages 18 to 28 and checked against a RapidOCR reading of the images (at 200 dpi) and the file's own text layer for the same pages, never published: of the transcription's 2059 words, 109 6-word windows were not found in a reading, in 23 spans - 23 spans split into consecutive pieces each found (a page break, a letterhead or signature block the readings interleave, or the readings' line order) (vision/check-log.txt; evidence/vision-check-2026-10-15.log, evidence/vision-explain-2026-10-15.log). Not part of the text: the compilation's page stamps (“N of 70”) and, where printed, the court's seal, the letterhead's upper-right block, the signature, the running footers and the order's distribution list (cc:), never content (taken out by build/normalize_transcripts.py; the transcriber's file is kept in custody). The transcription's closing note, which describes the pages, is not published.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.