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Chapter 4 (Rules 17 to 19): family law and motion - continuances once by the clerk, on a stipulation and order filed or the moving party's request with notice, at least five (5) court days before the hearing, and withdrawals noticed to the clerk's office and the opposing party no later than two (2) court days before (17.1); bench trial continuances (17.2); court-ordered child custody evaluations implementing Rule 5.220 - one peremptory challenge to an appointed evaluator, written objections filed and served within five (5) court days of the notice of assignment, an evaluator's request to withdraw and objections to it, and no ex parte communication with the evaluator (17.3); complaints about the counseling process, a counselor, an evaluator or minor's counsel made in writing to the Court Executive Office (17.4); child custody recommending counseling (CCRC) - a mandatory process governed by Family Code section 3160 et seq. and California Rules of Court, Rule 5.210 and 5.215, the CCRC protocol listed on the court's website under Family, a recommending court whose counselor prepares a written recommendation under Family Code section 3183, counselors subpoenaed and paid as experts by the party, attorney input letters not favored, and stipulated private child custody recommending counseling (18.1); temporary support guidelines - 40% of the net income of the payor minus 50% of the net income of the payee (the Santa Clara rule), the Alameda rule in child support cases involving spousal support, and child support under Division 9, Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Family Code (18.2); mandatory settlement conferences in the Family Law Settlement Program - a settlement conference statement and current income and expense and property declarations prepared, served and filed at least five (5) court days before, sanctions under Rule 1.4, and the written terms of any settlement (19.1); and a written proposal for the resolution of all contested issues served at least five (5) court days before trial, with financial declarations valid within the preceding 90 days (19.2).
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RULE 17: GENERAL FAMILY LAW 17.1 LAW AND MOTION (a) Continuances. Upon stipulation by all parties and order filed at least five (5) court days prior to the hearing, or upon request of the moving party with appropriate notice, law and motion matters may be continued once by the clerk at least five (5) court days prior to the matter being heard. Any party seeking a continuance that is not received timely shall appear in court at the time set for hearing and request such from the judge to whom the matter has been assigned. (b) Law and Motion Withdrawals. When a matter is to be withdrawn from the law and motion calendar, the moving party shall promptly notify the clerk’s office and the opposing party, but in no event shall notice be later than two (2) court days before the hearing. (Effective January 1, 2007; As amended, eff. 01/01/11; As amended and renumbered, eff. 01/01/2015; As amended, eff. 01/01/22) 17.2 BENCH TRIAL CONTINUANCE Upon stipulation, or request of the moving party with notice to any previously noticed party and an order signed by the judge, any bench trial may be continued once any time prior to three (3) court days before the hearing. A request for continuance made three (3) court days or less before the hearing date shall be made upon ex part motion before the presiding judge. (Effective January 1, 2007; As amended, eff. 01/01/11; As amended and renumbered, eff. 01/01/2015; As amended, eff. 01/01/22) 17.3 COURT ORDERED CHILD CUSTODY EVALUATIONS (a) This local rule implements California Rules Court, Rule 5.220. (b) Peremptory Challenges. Each party and minor’s counsel are permitted one peremptory challenge to a child custody evaluator appointed by the Court. Written objections must be filed and served on the other party within five (5) court days of the date of the notice of assignment. (c) Withdrawal from a Case. (1) An evaluator may request to withdraw from a case by filing a written declaration signed under penalty of perjury showing good cause. A copy of the declaration must be given to all parties and minor’s counsel. (2) Objections to the request must be filed with the Court and served on the evaluator, all parties and minor’s counsel within five (5) court days of receipt of the notice to withdraw. (3) After the time has expired to object to the request to withdraw, the court may, upon a finding of good cause, grant the request to withdraw, deny the request or set a hearing to the resolve the issue. (d) Ex Parte Communication. Parties and counsel shall not have ex parte communication with the evaluator except for the purpose of scheduling appointments or conducting scheduled interviews with the parties as a part of an evaluation process or where it is expressly authorized by the Court, consistent with Family Code Section 216. (Effective January 1, 2022) 17.4 COMPLAINT PROCESS Parties who wish to make a complaint about the counseling process, or a counselor, an evaluator or minors counsel must be made in writing to the Court Executive Office. A copy of the complaint must be provided to all parties. The Court must determine what action, if any, to take including whether the complaint should be referred to the appropriate professional licensing board. (Effective January 1, 2022) Rule 18: Child Custody and Child/Spousal Support 18.1 DISPUTES RE: CUSTODY (a) Mandatory Child Custody Recommending Counseling. Child custody recommending counseling (CCRC) is a mandatory process governed by Family Code section 3160 et seq. and California Rules of Court, Rule 5.210 and 5.215. The CCRC protocol is listed on the court’s website at www.yolo.courts.ca.gov under Family. Yolo Superior Court is a recommending court which means if the parties do not come to an agreement through the CCRC process, the counselor will prepare a written recommendation to the Court pursuant to Family Code section 3183. There is not confidentiality between the counselor and the parties and the minor children. Counselors may be subpoenaed by the parties to testify in court as to the reason(s) for their recommendation(s). If a counselor is called to testify he/she shall be served by the party with a subpoena and paid as an expert by the party at the hourly rate set by the counselor at the time the subpoena is served. Attorney input letters are not favored by the court and the court does not require the CCRC to review them prior to the counselling appointment or in preparation of the recommendation. (b) Stipulated Private Child Custody Recommending Counseling. Nothing in these rules prevents the parties from choosing a private counselor to help them with their custody and visitation dispute(s). Both parties may, at any time, stipulate to a private counselor by submitting a court approved “Stipulation to Private Child Custody Recommending Counseling” for approval by the family court judge. Private counselors shall prepare and file a recommendation with the court before the date indicated on the stipulation and order. The recommendation shall contain a brief statement of the counselor’s finding(s), agreement(s) entered into by the parties, and any recommendation(s) the counselor may have on disputed issues. (Effective January 1, 2007; As amended, eff. 01/01/11; As amended, eff. 01/01/2015; As amended, eff. 01/01/2019; As amended, eff. 01/01/22) 18.2 GUIDELINES FOR TEMPORARY CHILD/SPOUSAL SUPPORT ORDERS (a) The court has adopted a guideline for temporary spousal support. This guideline is discretionary for use in determining temporary spousal support in appropriate cases. (b) In cases where there is no child support, the guideline shall be 40% of the net income of the payor minus 50% of the net income of the payee. This is commonly referred to as the Santa Clara rule. The Court will use what is commonly referred to as the Alameda rule in child support cases involving spousal support. (c) In setting child support, the court will apply Division 9, Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Family Code (Family Code §§ 3500 et seq.) (Effective January 1, 2007; As amended, eff. 01/01/11; As amended and renumbered, eff. 01/01/2015) RULE 19: SETTLEMENT AND TRIAL OF FAMILY LAW MATTERS 19.1 MANDATORY SETTLEMENT CONFERENCES Because the resolution of family law cases by settlement is beneficial to the parties and the children, the court has established the Family Law Settlement Program with the participation of the local family law bar. (a) All family law matters shall be scheduled for a settlement conference before proceeding to trial, unless expressly exempted by the judge presiding over the family law calendar. Good faith attendance and participation by all parties and counsel are mandatory unless excused by the court. (b) Upon stipulation of the parties, experienced family law attorneys shall be assigned as settlement conference officers to preside over the settlement conferences. (c) At least five (5) court days before a settlement conference, each party shall prepare, serve and file (1) a settlement conference statement setting forth the party’s position on every contested issue, and (2) a current income and expense declaration and property declaration. (d) As provided in Rule 1.4, a party and/or an attorney’s failure, without substantial justification, to file the documents and/or attend the mandatory settlement conference shall subject that person to sanctions. Sanctions may include, but are not limited to, an order for payment to the pro tem settlement conference officer for the time he or she spent at his/her customary hourly rate. (e) The attorneys, or parties in propria persona, shall set forth the details for any settlement reached, which shall be signed by the parties and/or their attorneys and a copy attached to the clerk’s minute order. The written recitation of the specific terms of the settlement must be prepared and signed by the parties and counsel and presented to the clerk. The judge will review the settlement with the parties and counsel in court after the settlement conference and enter appropriate orders. If one of the parties refuses, without substantial justification, to sign the prepared order concurring with this agreement, after ten (10) days the court shall sign the order. (Effective January 1, 2007; As amended, eff 01/01/11; As amended, eff 01/01/2015; Renumbered, eff. 01/01/22)) 19.2 GOOD FAITH ATTEMPT AT INFORMAL RESOLUTION (a) At least five (5) court days prior to the trial date for any contested family law case, counsel for each party shall serve on each opposing party a written proposal, prepared in good faith, for the resolution of all contested issues. (b) Any financial declaration to be submitted at the trial shall be served on the opposing parties with the above-referenced written proposal for settlement. If the declarations filed before the settlement conference remain current (i.e., valid within the preceding 90 days) at this time, they need not be resubmitted. (Effective January 1, 2007; As amended, eff. 01/01/2015; Renumbered, eff. 01/01/22)
RULE 17: GENERAL FAMILY LAW 17.1 LAW AND MOTION (a) Continuances. Upon stipulation by all parties and order filed at least five (5) court days prior to the hearing, or upon request of the moving party with appropriate notice, law and motion matters may be continued once by the clerk at least five (5) court days prior to the matter being heard. Any party seeking a continuance that is not received t
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-10 (California T4 Yolo build 2026-10-10) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-yolo/docs/yolo/default/2026-04/Yolo Superior Court Local Rules Effective 01-01-2023.pdf (the court's rule book, its cover “The following rules of court for the Superior Court of Yolo County are adopted January 1, 2023 and replace the rules previously adopted by the Superior Court of Yolo County.”, as fetched 2026-10-10; 700841 bytes, sha256 d05d92b20c2d61ae316a5081bfbbf4ac225f259b12a092c527669f4579097d7e; 52 pages; this chapter PDF pages 32 to 37) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow) and its strike-out: six chapters - 1 to 5 and 7 - each composed from the page after its divider page (PDF pages 10 to 47), from its first rule's heading (“RULE 1: GENERAL RULES” to “RULE 26 GUARDIANSHIPS OF THE PERSON OF A MINOR”) to its last rule's history note: each page's running header (“Yolo Superior Court”) and its two footer lines (the chapter's name and “Page N of 44”) removed as chrome; lines reflowed into the rules' paragraphs, each rule's heading and each subdivision's label and title (“1.1 NAME, CITATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE”) set as one line, as printed on one row; the strike report (review/strike-report-2026-10-10.txt) lists 5 struck runs on 3 pages - the deleted Rule 25 in the list of current effective dates and in the index, and one struck space in Rule 4.7 - taken out as chrome; 4 whitespace-only fixes (build/book-fixes.json: Rule 4.7(c)3's formal complaint addresses - the Commission on Judicial Performance's street, item v. and the Sheriff's Office's street - set on their own lines as printed, and Rule 11.3's first fee item rejoined) and no same-character fix; the vertical-gap, short-line, page-break, bold-line, false-break, fragment and row audits (custody file book_extra_audits.py) list candidates read one by one; proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. The cover, the statement on state law, the list of current effective dates, the table of contents, each chapter's divider page (its rules and their page numbers), Chapter 6 (it prints only “RULE 25: DELETED”), Appendix 1 (the listing of local forms) and the index by subject matter belong to no card. Review note: Carried as printed: Rule 17.3(a)'s “California Rules Court, Rule 5.220”; Rule 17.2's “ex part motion”; Rule 19.1's history note ending “01/01/22))”. Rule 18.1(a) points to a CCRC protocol on the court's website (a review task on the Child Custody Recommending Counseling 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.