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Rules and Forms | Miscellaneous Technical Changes
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Summary
Summary
Various members of the judicial branch, members of the public, and Judicial Council staff have identified errors in the California Rules of Court and in Judicial Council forms resulting from input errors, as well as minor changes needed to conform to changes in law or previous council actions. Judicial Council staff recommend making the necessary corrections to ensure that the forms conform to the law and to avoid causing confusion for court users, clerks, and judicial officers.
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Recommendation
Recommendation
Judicial Council staff recommend that the council, effective July 1, 2025:
1. Amend rule 3.906 of the California Rules of Court to correct a rules reference that was not updated when the rule was previously renumbered and reorganized and to correct a minor punctuation error.
2. Amend rule 3.1700 to correct a reference to the Code of Civil Procedure that was not updated when the code was amended and paragraph numbers were changed.
3. Amend rule 7.550(b)(8) and (9) to correct grammar and punctuation.
4. Revise Statement of Damages (Personal Injury or Wrongful Death) (form CIV-050) to correct the spelling of “society” in item 1d and to conform the citations in the form to the council’s style.
5. Revise Information on Debtor’s Examinations Regarding Consumer Debt (form EJ-140-INFO/SC-136-INFO) to replace “judgment debtor” with “judgment creditor” on page 7 and to update links in the form.
6. Revise Provisional Order Accepting Transfer (California Conservatorship Jurisdiction Act) (form GC-367) to delete the hyphen in “e-mail” in the caption and replace the cross-reference to “7” with “11” in item 10.
7. Revise Temporary Qualification of Noncertified or Nonregistered Spoken Language Interpreter (form INT-140) to correct the spelling of “Nonregistered” in the caption.
8. Revise Order on Placement in Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Program or Community Treatment Facility (form JV-239) to correctly number existing item 12 as item 11 and to conform the citations in the form to the council’s style.
9. Revise Notice of Court Hearing (form JV-249) to replace “as” with “has” in the second sentence of the first bullet point at the top of page 3, to update links, and to conform the citations in the form to the council’s style.
10. Revise How to Serve a Business or Public Entity (Small Claims) (form SC-104C), Request for Court Order and Answer (form SC-105), Order on Request for Court Order (form SC-105A), Request to Correct or Cancel Judgment and Answer (Small Claims) (form SC-108), Order on Request to Correct or Cancel Judgment (form SC-108A), Proof of Service by Mail (Small Claims) (form SC-112A), Defendant's Claim and ORDER to Go to Small Claims Court (form SC-120), Request to Postpone Trial (Small Claims) (form SC-150), Order on Request to Postpone Trial (Small Claims) (form SC-152), What to Do After the Court Decides Your Small Claims Case (form SC-200-INFO), Order on Request to Make Payments (Small Claims) (form SC-222), Declaration of Default in Payment of Judgment (form SC-223), Order on Declaration of Default in Payments (form SC-225), and Acknowledgment of Satisfaction of Judgment (form SC-290) to update links, remove references to webpages that no longer exist, and make other minor formatting changes.
11. Revise Notice of Hearing on Request to Modify/Terminate Workplace Violence Restraining Order (form WV-610) to include an “a” before the first subitem of item 4.
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