Rules of Court

The California Rules of Court 

Current as of January 1, 2023.

• Title One. Rules Applicable to All Courts (Rules 1.1 - 1.300) | PDF (133 KB)
• Title Two. Trial Court Rules (Rules 2.1 - 2.1100) | PDF (1.08 MB)
• Title Three. Civil Rules (Rules 3.1 - 3.2237) | PDF (1.38 MB)
• Title Four. Criminal Rules (Rules 4.1 - 4.700) | PDF (888 KB)
• Title Five. Family and Juvenile Rules (Rules 5.1 - 5.906) | PDF (2.7 MB)
• Title Six. [Reserved]
• Title Seven. Probate Rules (Rules 7.1 - 7.1101) | PDF (753 KB)
• Title Eight. Appellate Rules (Rules 8.1 - 8.1125) | PDF (3.28 MB)
• Title Nine. Rules on Law Practice, Attorneys, and Judges (Rules 9.1 - 9.90) | PDF (933 KB)
• Title Ten. Judicial Administration Rules (Rules 10.1 - 10.1108) | PDF (1.44 MB)
• Standards of Judicial Administration (Standards 2.1 - 10.72) | PDF (695 KB)
• Ethics Standards for Neutral Arbitrators in Contractual Arbitration (Standards 1 - 17) | PDF
• Appendix A: Judicial Council Legal Forms List 
• Appendix B: Liability Limits of a Parent or Guardian Having Custody and Control of a Minor for the Torts of a Minor (revised July 1, 2021)
• Appendix C: Guidelines for the Operation of Family Law Information Centers and Family Law Facilitator Offices
• Appendix D: Judicial Council Governance Policies
• Appendix E: Guidelines for Determining Financial Eligibility for County Payment of the Cost of Counsel Appointed by the Court in Proceedings Under the Guardianship-Conservatorship Law
• Appendix F: Guidelines for the Juvenile Dependency Counsel Collections Program
• Appendix G: Parliamentary Procedures for the Judicial Council of California
• Appendix H: Amount of Civil Penalty to Cure Alleged Violation of Proposition 65 for Failure to Provide Certain Warnings (Health & Saf. Code, § 26249.7(k))
• Appendix I: Emergency Rules Related to COVID-19 (updated: 3/15/2022) 

Alternative Format: Download the Complete California Rules of Court in PDF format, compressed into a single .ZIP file (updated: 1/1/2022, 11 MB).

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Code of Judicial Ethics
Formal standards of conduct for judges and candidates for judicial office.

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