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9.00.0 Adoption Rules: on the filing of any adoption petition or adoption-related matter (including a petition for termination of parental rights and freedom from parental custody and control), the clerk sending notice of pendency of the action to the appropriate investigating agencies, and petitioners responsible for submitting all moving papers, fees and other required information to the investigating agency or agencies (9.01.0); no finalization hearing until the written consent of both birth parents, if living, has been filed or all birth parents’ rights have been terminated and the period for appeal has expired, termination of parental rights required prior to finalization in every case in which a living parent does not consent, even if the identity or location of the non-consenting parent is unknown, the adoption agency’s or investigating agency’s written report recommending granting or denying the petition filed and a completed and signed Court Report of Adoption form (California Department of Public Health, Office of Vital Records form VS 44) lodged, and an unsigned adoption agreement and the proposed adoption order submitted to the clerk (9.02.0); within thirty (30) days of filing, a file-stamped copy of the adoption petition forwarded in an independent adoption to the appropriate district office of the State Department of Social Services and in an agency adoption to the adoption agency that placed the child in the petitioner’s custody (9.03.0 and 9.04.0); in a stepparent adoption where the petitioner has not elected an investigator under Family Code section 9001, subdivision (b), a file-stamped copy of the petition forwarded within thirty (30) days of filing to the agency designated by the County of Tuolumne to perform stepparent adoption investigations, with all documentation the agency requires, and the petitioner to pay the agency fee within one (1) year of filing the petition (9.05.0(a)); the Court may dismiss, on its own motion or on the motion of the investigating agency, a petition the petitioner has failed to finalize within eighteen (18) months of the original filing date, unless the petitioner can demonstrate good cause for the delay (9.05.0(b)); and the Court’s policy that a petition for adoption should not be filed until a child is free to be adopted (9.06.0)
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9.00.0 ADOPTION RULES 9.01.0 General: Upon the filing of any adoption petition or adoption-related matter (including a petition for termination of parental rights and freedom from parental custody and control), the clerk of the Court will send notice of pendency of the action to the appropriate investigating agencies. However, petitioners are responsible for submitting all moving papers, fees, and other required information to the investigating agency or agencies. (Amended 7/01/16; effective 1/01/01) 9.02.0 Finalization: Adoptions may not be set for finalization hearing until all of the following steps have been completed: a. The written consent of both birth parents, if living, have been filed with the Court by the petitioner or by the adoption agency, or all birth parents’ rights have been terminated and the period for appeal of the order terminating parental rights has expired. Termination of parental rights is required prior to adoption finalization in every case in which a living parent does not consent to the adoption, even if the identity or location of the non-consenting parent is unknown. b. The adoption agency or investigating agency has filed with the Court its written report that recommends granting or denying the petition, and a completed and signed Court Report of Adoption form (California Department of Public Health, Office of Vital Records form VS 44) has been lodged in the file. c. Petitioners have submitted to the clerk an unsigned adoption agreement and the proposed adoption order. (Amended 7/01/16, 7/01/05; effective 1/01/01) 9.03.0 Independent Adoptions: Within thirty (30) days of filing, the petitioner shall forward a file-stamped copy of the adoption petition to the appropriate district office of the State Department of Social Services. (Amended 7/01/16; effective 1/01/01) 9.04.0 Agency Adoptions: Within thirty (30) days of filing, the petitioner shall forward a file-stamped copy of the adoption petition to the adoption agency that placed the child in the petitioner’s custody. (Amended 7/01/16; effective 1/01/01) 9.05.0 Stepparent Adoptions: a. If the petitioner has not elected an investigator pursuant to Family Code section 9001, subdivision (b), the petitioner shall, within thirty (30) days of filing, forward a file-stamped copy of the petition to the agency designated by the County of Tuolumne to perform stepparent adoption investigations. The petitioner also shall forward to the agency all documentation required by the agency and shall pay the agency fee within one (1) year of filing the petition. b. The Court may, on its own motion or on the motion of the investigating agency, dismiss any petition that the petitioner has failed to finalize within eighteen (18) months of the original filing date, unless the petitioner can demonstrate good cause for the delay. (Amended 7/01/18, 7/01/16; effective 1/01/01) 9.06.0 Timing of Petition: It is the policy of this Court that a petition for adoption should not be filed until a child is free to be adopted. (Amended 7/01/16; effective 7/01/10)
9.00.0 ADOPTION RULES 9.01.0 General: Upon the filing of any adoption petition or adoption-related matter (including a petition for termination of parental rights and freedom from parental custody and control), the clerk of the Court will send notice of pendency of the action to the appropriate investigating agencies. However, petitioners are responsible for submitting all moving papers, fees, and
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-15 (California T4 Tuolumne build 2026-10-15) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-tuolumne/docs/local-rules/local-rules-effective-aug-27-2026.pdf (the court's rule book, its cover “TUOLUMNE COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT LOCAL RULES OF COURT EFFECTIVE AUGUST 27, 2026”, as fetched 2026-10-15; 1761964 bytes, sha256 d8dd3a98b9379c23580021b0a984d40fbc1adb83653c5e17edbe95a1fc3e27f2; 73 pages; this part PDF pages 53 to 54, page numbers 53 to 54) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow): the rules (PDF pages 11 to 57) composed as one text and cut at the twelve chapter headings (“1.00.0 DIVISION OF BUSINESS AND GENERAL RULES” to “12.00.0 WRITS AND APPEALS”), each matched once as a whole line, one card per chapter; the book's caption above the first chapter (“SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA / COUNTY OF TUOLUMNE / --o0o-- / RULES OF COURT - JANUARY 1, 2020”) cut out as a part of its own and held - a caption, not a rule; every page's running head (“LOCAL RULES - SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF TUOLUMNE”, named), page number and the five “///” continuation marks removed as chrome - 99 chrome lines; lines reflowed into the rules' paragraphs, each chapter and rule number and lettered or numbered subdivision starting a line; 2 whitespace-only fixes (build/book-fixes.json: Rule 2.06.0's three case management plans, printed one to a line, split back onto their lines); the vertical-gap, short-line, page-break, false-break, structural-break and row-join audits (review/book-extra-audits-2026-10-15.txt and the two audits' runs) list candidates read one by one (build/book_fixes.py) - the rest kept as printed; proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. The cover (PDF page 1), the list of the court's officers (2), the instructions (3), the table of contents (4 to 10), the appendix page (58: Form TUO-TRF-100, revised June 9, 2015, printed as a page image over an earlier edition's index that stays in the text layer), the Approved Local Forms by Name (59 to 64), the Alphabetical Subject Matter Index (65 to 70) and the Table of Authorities (71 to 73) 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.