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The contents of a petition for compromise of the claim of a person with a disability or a minor (8.1); filing petitions for compromise of claims where no action is pending (8.2); and the establishment of special needs trusts (8.3).
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Rule 8 – Compromises of Claims 8.1 CONTENTS OF PETITION FOR COMPROMISE OF CLAIM OF A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY OR A MINOR A petition for court approval of a compromise or covenant not to sue regarding a person with a disability or a minor shall comply in all respects with California Rules of Court, rule 3.1384, and shall be presented on the mandatory Judicial Council form MC-350. In addition, the petition shall include: (1) A full disclosure of all information concerning the reasonableness of the proposed compromise or covenant not to sue, including the amounts, if any, paid to other claimants. (2) The original or a photocopy of each bill which, if paid, shall disclose the date of payment, the amount paid, and the name of the payor. (Rule 8.1 amended effective July 1, 2014; adopted effective July 1, 1988; previously amended effective July 1, 2009, and January 1, 2010, and July 1, 2010.) 8.2 FILING PETITIONS FOR COMPROMISE OF CLAIMS In cases where no action is pending, a petition to compromise either a minor’s claim or a claim of an adult with disabilities shall be filed as an independent case with the Probate Division. In cases where a civil action is pending, a petition to compromise either a minor’s claim or a claim of an adult with disabilities shall be filed within the pending civil action. (Rule 8.2 adopted effective July 1, 2014.) 8.3 ESTABLISHMENT OF SPECIAL NEEDS TRUSTS If a compromise of claim or covenant not to sue includes the establishment of a special needs trust with a person with a disability or a minor as beneficiary, the establishment of the trust shall comply with Solano County Local Rules, rule 7.53. (Rule 8.3 amended effective July 1, 2014; adopted effective July 1, 2009; previously amended effective January 1, 2010, and July 1, 2010; previous Rule 8.3, concerning representation of specified parties by counsel at hearings, repealed effective July 1, 2009.)
Rule 8 – Compromises of Claims 8.1 CONTENTS OF PETITION FOR COMPROMISE OF CLAIM OF A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY OR A MINOR A petition for court approval of a compromise or covenant not to sue regarding a person with a disability or a minor shall comply in all respects with California Rules of Court, rule 3.1384, and shall be presented on the mandatory Judicial Council form MC-350. In addition, the p
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-09 (California T4 Solano build 2026-10-09) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-solano/docs/general/complete_set_of_local_rules_july_2026.pdf (the court's rule book, “Local Court Rules”, revised July 1, 2026, as fetched 2026-10-09; 7347859 bytes, sha256 f235df4f2c4c47b9c4e290445ffa2be1b5ad4302da615570c85a49e5138357e7; 350 pages) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow) over Rules 1 to 20 (their pages between PDF pages 15 and 323), each rule composed alone from its first page to its last, in segments that start where a part's or an appendix's heading first prints: each page's running header (“Superior Court of California” and “County of Solano”, then the rule's title and the current part or appendix, kept where each first prints) and footer (the page number, the court's website address and “July 2026”) removed as chrome; lines reflowed into the rules' paragraphs; 44 whitespace-only fixes (build/book-fixes.json: thirteen breaks the reflow made before a wrapped “Rule N.N” citation rejoined, two form numbers broken after their hyphen rejoined, and twenty-nine heading, history note, paragraph, list, table row and address breaks it ran together set back; the short-line and vertical-gap audits find no joined break left); the scanned appendices (the standing orders printed in the appendices of Rules 5, 6 and 17, and the weapons order printed again after the forms index) left out and decided as documents - the strike report's 14 struck runs all lie on those scanned pages; proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. The cover, the revision history, the table of contents, the dividers and the indexes belong to no rule.
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.