Orange County Superior Court — Department L51: Mandatory Settlement Conference Rules

High confidence· verified September 29, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment L51: Mandatory Settlement Conference Rules, Superior Court of California, County of Orange; linked from the court's page https://www.occourts.org/divisions/family-law/remote-hearing-rules at https://www.occourts.org/system/files/l51mandatorysettlementconferencerules.pdf, fetched 2026-09-29.

Summary

Department L51's mandatory settlement conference rules under Local Rule 707: the parties and DCSS meet and confer before the conference; settlement conference and trial statements (with guideline support calculations) served five calendar days before; a joint statement of issues remaining to be tried; mandatory attendance, with sanctions for failure to attend.

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California > Fourth Appellate District > Orange County > Superior Court of California, County of Orange > Department L51

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Department L51 MANDATORY SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE RULES Pursuant to Local Rule 707 of the Superior Court of California, County of Orange, the parties, including the Department of Child Support Services, are ordered to meet (may be telephonic or video conference) arranged by the moving party in a good faith effort to eliminate the necessity of trial or to eliminate as many of the disputes between the

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Orange — court website
Source health: Healthy · checked September 28, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 29, 2026benchpath-ca-t3-orange-2026-09-29

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-29 (California T3 Orange build 2026-09-29) from BenchPath custody ca/t3/ca-orange/docs/l51mandatorysettlementconferencerules.pdf (106688 bytes, sha256 b24e125fbb6b383a09934b377d9c7d1ba3110c2da70c947719aa65c14396d248; 1 page) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow): page numbers and running headers or footers removed as chrome, lines reflowed into the document's paragraphs; proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) both pass. Attached to Commissioner Laurie N. Burns by department: the document names no judicial officer; the court's Judicial Officers page lists Commissioner Laurie N. Burns in Department L51.

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