Orange County Superior Court — Department L54: Mandatory Settlement Conference Rules for Cases With a Time Estimate of One Hour or More

High confidence· verified September 29, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment L54: Mandatory Settlement Conference Rules for Cases With a Time Estimate of One Hour or More, 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/l54mandatorysettlementconferencerules.pdf, fetched 2026-09-29.

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Department L54's mandatory settlement conference rules under Local Rule 707 for cases estimated at one hour or more: 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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Department L54 MANDATORY SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE RULES FOR CASES WITH A TIME ESTIMATE OF ONE HOUR OR MORE Pursuant to Local Rule 707 of the Superior Court of California, County of Orange, the parties and DCSS 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 betwe

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Orange — court website
Source health: Healthy · checked September 28, 2026
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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/l54mandatorysettlementconferencerules.pdf (107584 bytes, sha256 f48cfe963ea3e5999515eaf17aac662eaab4322b4683c529e1c207916eafc82b; 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 Jessica Paulson-Duffy by department: the document names no judicial officer; the court's Judicial Officers page lists Commissioner Jessica Paulson-Duffy in Department L54.