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Adoption hearings scheduled at the request of petitioner or counsel on any probate court appearance calendar, the required reports, orders and pleadings on file before a hearing is scheduled (8.1); and access to adoption files under Family Code section 9200 by a detailed factual showing of good cause, on the mandatory local form Petition to Inspect Adoption Records (8.2).
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RULE 8: ADOPTION PROCEEDINGS 8.1 Adoption Hearings Adoption hearings will be scheduled at the request of petitioner or counsel on any probate court appearance calendar. All proposed reports, orders, accounting, agreements, consents, and other pleadings required by law shall be on file prior to scheduling a hearing. (Effective 1/1/99) 8.2 Access to Adoption Files Pursuant to Family Code section 9200, applicants seeking access to adoption files shall set forth a detailed factual showing sufficient to establish good cause approaching the necessitous. Applicants shall use the Petition to Inspect Adoption Records, a mandatory local form available on the Court’s website at http://www.napa.courts.ca.gov. (Effective 7/1/93; revised 7/1/08, 1/1/12, 1/1/13, and 7/1/24.)
RULE 8: ADOPTION PROCEEDINGS 8.1 Adoption Hearings Adoption hearings will be scheduled at the request of petitioner or counsel on any probate court appearance calendar. All proposed reports, orders, accounting, agreements, consents, and other pleadings required by law shall be on file prior to scheduling a hearing. (Effective 1/1/99) 8.2 Access to Adoption Files Pursuant to Family Code section 920
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-09 (California T4 Napa build 2026-10-09) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-napa/docs/general/local-rules-effective-january-1-2026.pdf (the court's rule book, its cover “Local Rules Effective 1/1/26”, as fetched 2026-10-09; 1160403 bytes, sha256 59a4b9c75779cee0fc7cfd9117a7ca5fd4fecfacf7ff354754e0f717151b6f86; 74 pages) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow) rule by rule - the eleven rules (PDF pages 7; 8 to 15; 16 and 17; 18 to 20; 21; 22 to 29; 30 to 44; 45; 46 to 49; 50 to 56; 58 and 59), each beginning at the top of a page: each page's running header (“Superior Court of California, County of Napa”) and footer (the page number) removed as chrome; lines reflowed into the rules' paragraphs; no struck run on any of the 74 pages (review/strike-report-2026-10-09.txt); 9 whitespace-only fixes (build/book-fixes.json: Rule 2.4's list of the Criminal Courthouse's courtrooms, Rule 6.11's attorney fee schedule rows and the history note that closes Rule 4.7, each set back to a line of its own as the page prints them, and one line of Rule 7.10(A)(2) the reflow broke inside a sentence set back to a space; the vertical-gap, short-line and false-break audits find no other); 1 same-character fix (build/book-captions.json: Rule 2.14 A's chart of the case types for which the Court provides an official court reporter set as printed by rows - the header, then each case type with its answer on a line of its own); proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. The cover, the list of currently effective rules, the table of contents, the list of local forms, Appendix A (locating a qualified private child custody evaluator) and the index 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.