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Santa Barbara County Superior Court — Santa Maria Department SM 4 (Judge Jed Beebe) Policies and Procedures

High confidence· verified October 7, 2026Judge PreferencesSanta Maria Department SM 4 (Judge Jed Beebe) Policies and Procedures, Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara; posted on the court's Judicial Assignments page (https://www.santabarbara.courts.ca.gov/general-information/judicial-assignments) at https://www.santabarbara.courts.ca.gov/system/files/local-rules/department-sm-4-policies-and-procedures.pdf, fetched 2026-10-07.

Summary

Department SM4's calendar (Monday adoption and probate matters, Tuesday family law and motion with Zoom authorized, Wednesday case management conferences, Friday small claims and collections, and evidentiary hearings and trials); civil ex parte hearings with the moving party's personal appearance; probate notes posted by 5:00 p.m. the day before; case management and mandatory settlement conferences, settlement conference statements five court days before (CRC 3.1380(c) and Local Rule 1423); trial briefs, exhibit lists, witness lists and jury instructions three (3) court days before trial with courtesy copies to SM4Continue@sbcourts.org; a six-pack system for jury selection; exhibits and court reporters.

Applies to

California > Second Appellate District > Santa Barbara County > Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara > Cook Division, Department 4

Source of truth

DEPARTMENT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES Dept. SM4 The Honorable Jed Beebe Judge of the Superior Court COURTROOM CLERK: Angie Moreno DEPT. TELEPHONE: 805-614-6515 JUDICIAL SECRETARY: Torey Winn DEPT. E-MAIL: SM4Continue@sbcourts.org Welcome to Department SM4. The court assumes counsel have read and familiarized themselves with the California Rules of Court and the Santa Barbara County Local Court Rules.

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara — court website
Source health: Healthy · checked September 28, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: October 7, 2026benchpath-ca-t4-santa-barbara-2026-10-07

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-07 (California T4 Santa Barbara build 2026-10-07) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-santa-barbara/docs/local-rules/department-sm-4-policies-and-procedures.pdf (381212 bytes, sha256 bb68442fe76df58a7ab693e5f24067812978ae965ae9b082b5313680a7794dd9; 6 pages) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow): page marks and running headers or footers removed as chrome (a running header or footer kept once where it names or dates the document); lines reflowed into the document's paragraphs; proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. Documented settings (whitespace-only or same-character changes; the proofs hold): the staff and contact grid set one cell a line, row by row (a whitespace fix). Attached to Judge Jed Beebe: the document is for Dept. 4 of the Cook Division, where the court's Judicial Assignments page seats Judge Jed Beebe and its Superior Court Organization & Locations page lists the officer in that division.