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Rules and Forms | Name- and Gender-Change Form Revisions to Implement Assembly Bill 218 and Assembly Bill 421
(Action Required)
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Summary
Summary
The Civil and Small Claims Advisory Committee recommends changes to 21 forms to implement statutory changes in Assembly Bill 218 (Stats. 2021, ch. 577) and Assembly Bill 421 (Stats. 2022, ch. 40). Together, these bills (1) authorize petitions for recognition of change of gender to be joined with requests to have various administrative records issued to reflect the petitioner’s changed gender; (2) allow non-California residents to petition to have their names and gender changed on certain administrative records issued in California; (3) add a new category of petitioners who may bring name- or gender-change petitions on behalf of minors; and (4) change when a minor’s grandparents must receive notice of a petition to recognize a change in the minor’s gender. The proposed forms address these statutory changes.
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Recommendation
Recommendation
The Civil and Small Claims Advisory Committee recommends that the Judicial Council, effective January 1, 2023:
1. Adopt the following forms:
• Birth Certificate for Child of Petitioner--Attachment (form NC-311)
• Marriage License and Certificate--Attachment (form NC-312)
• Order to Show Cause--Issuance of New Marriage License and Certificate (form NC-325)
• Order Recognizing Minor’s Change of Gender and Sex Identifier and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate (form NC-530)
2. Approve the following forms:
• Instructions for Filing Petition for Recognition of Change of Gender and Sex Identifier, Name Change, and Issuance of New Certificates (form NC-300-INFO)
3. Revise the following forms:
• Petition for Change of Name (form NC-100)
• Instructions for Filing a Petition for Change of Name (form NC-100-INFO)
• Name and Information about the Person Whose Name Is to Be Changed (form NC-110)
• Order to Show Cause--Change of Name (form NC-120)
• Notice of Hearing on Petition (form NC-150)
• Petition for Recognition of Change of Gender and Sex Identifier, Name Change, and Issuance of New Certificates (form NC-300)
• Order Recognizing Change of Gender and Sex Identifier, for Name Change, and for Issuance of New Certificates (form NC-330)
• Petition for Recognition of Minor’s Change of Gender and Sex Identifier and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate and Change of Name (form NC-500)
• Instructions for Filing Petition for Recognition of Minor’s Change of Gender and Sex Identifier (form NC-500-INFO)
• Declaration of Guardian or Juvenile Attorney (form NC-510G)
• Order to Show Cause--Recognition of Minor’s Change of Gender and Issuance of New Birth Certificate (form NC-520)
4. Revoke the following forms:
• Petition for Change of Name, Recognition of Change of Gender, and Issuance of New Birth Certificate (form NC-200)
• Order to Show Cause for Change of Name to Conform to Gender Identity (form NC-225)
• Decree Changing Name and Order Recognizing Change of Gender and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate (form NC-230)
• Order Recognizing Minor’s Change of Gender and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate (form NC-530G)
5. Renumber the following form:
• Order to Show Cause--Change of Name to Conform to Gender Identity (renumber from form NC-125/NC-225 to form NC-125)
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