Title
Title
Rules and Forms | Miscellaneous Technical Changes (Action Required)
body
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 Judicial Council forms resulting from typographical errors and changes resulting from legislation, and previous rule amendments and form revisions. Judicial Council staff recommend making the necessary corrections to avoid causing confusion for court users, clerks, and judicial officers.
body
Recommendation
Recommendation
Judicial Council staff recommend that the council, effective January 1, 2021:
1. Amend rule 9.21 to update the address for the Office of the Clerk, State Bar Court;
2. Revise forms FL-192, FL-445, and FL-575 to remove a reference to incorrect forms and to make the relief requested conform with the Family Code;
3. Revise Notice of Child Custody Proceeding for Indian Child (form ICWA-030) to make it consistent with legal requirements by removing notice to the Secretary of the Interior;
4. Revise the name of Order on Ex Parte Hearing to Return Physical Custody of an Indian Child (form ICWA-090) to Order After Hearing on Ex Parte Request to Return Physical Custody of an Indian Child;
5. Revise Additional Children Attachment - Juvenile Dependency Petition (form JV-101(A)) to replace the word “sex” with “gender,” to make it consistent with related forms;
6. Revise Juvenile Dependency Petition (Version Two) (form JV-110) to make the language in item 2.c. the same as the language in item 2.c. of a related form, Juvenile Dependency Petition (Version One) (form JV-100);
7. Revise Proof of Notice of Application (form JV-221) to add a checkbox for item 5, to delete item number “5” on page 2, and to replace the incorrect reference to “page 3” with “page 4” under the signature lines on pages 2 and 3;
8. Revise Findings and Orders After Detention Hearing (form JV-410) to correct the name of the hearing in item 2 of page one from “Dispositional” to “Detention”;
9. Revise Twenty-four-Month Prepermanency Attachment: Reunification Services Terminated (form JV-457) to correct the title in the footer and change the name to “Twenty-four-Month Permanency Attachment: Reunification Services Terminated.”
10. Revise Order Designating Educational Rights Holder (form JV-535), items 1.a.&b. (3), to replace the incorrect reference to “section 319(g)” with “Welf. & Inst. Code section 319(j)” and add “Welf. & Inst. Code” before all code references in items 1, 3, 9, and 11, and add “California Rules of Court” to item 2 before “rule 5.502.”