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Division 1. Family Rules
- Rule 5.1. Title
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Chapter 1. General Provisions
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Article 1. General Provisions
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Article 2: Use of Forms
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Article 3. Appearance by Telephone
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Article 4. Discovery
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Article 5: Sanctions
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Chapter 2. Parties and Joinder of Parties
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Article 1. Parties to Proceedings
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Article 2. Joinder of Parties
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Article 3. Employee Pension Benefit Plan
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Chapter 3. Filing Fees and Fee Waivers
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Article 1. Filing Fees and Fee Waivers
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Article 2. Special Procedures
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Chapter 4. Starting and Responding to a Family Law Case; Service of Papers
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Article 1. Summonses, Notices, and Declarations
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Article 2. Initial Pleadings
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Article 3. Service of Papers
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Article 4. Manner of Service
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Article 5. Pleadings and Amended Pleadings
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Article 6. Specific Proceedings
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Chapter 5. Family Centered Case Resolution Plans
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Chapter 6. Request for Court Orders
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Article 1. General Provisions
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Article 2. Filing and Service
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Article 3. Meet-and-Confer Conferences
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Article 4. Evidence at Hearings
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Article 5. Reporting and Preparation of Order After Hearing
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Article 6. Special Immigrant Juvenile Findings
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Chapter 7. Request for Emergency Orders (Ex parte Orders)
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Article 1. Request for Emergency Orders (Ex parte Orders)
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Article 2. Notice, Service, Appearance
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Article 3. Procedural Matters Not Requiring Notice (Non-Emergency Orders)
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Chapter 8. Child Custody and Visitation (Parenting Time) Proceedings
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Article 1. Child Custody Mediation
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Article 2. Child Custody Investigations and Evaluations
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Article 3. Ex parte Communication
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Article 4. Counsel Appointed to Represent a Child
- Rule 5.240. Appointment of counsel to represent a child in family law proceedings
- Rule 5.241. Compensation of counsel appointed to represent a child in a family law proceeding
- Rule 5.242. Qualifications, rights, and responsibilities of counsel appointed to represent a child in family law proceedings
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Article 5. Children's Participation in Family Court
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Chapter 9. Child, Spousal, and Domestic Partner Support
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Article 1. General Provisions
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Article 2. Certification of Statewide Uniform Guideline Support Calculators
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Chapter 10. Government Child Support Cases (Title IV-D Support Cases)
- Rule 5.350. Procedures for hearings to cancel (set aside) voluntary declarations of parentage or paternity when no previous action has been filed
- Rule 5.300. Purpose, authority, and definitions
- Rule 5.305. Hearing of matters by a judge under Family Code sections 4251(a) and 4252(b)(7)
- Rule 5.310. Use of existing family law forms
- Rule 5.311. Implementation of new and revised governmental forms by local child support agencies
- Rule 5.315. Memorandum of points and authorities
- Rule 5.320. Attorney of record in support actions under title IV-D of the Social Security Act
- Rule 5.324. Telephone appearance in title IV-D hearings and conferences
- Rule 5.325. Procedures for clerk's handling of combined summons and complaint
- Rule 5.330. Procedures for child support case registry form
- Rule 5.335. Procedures for hearings on interstate income withholding orders
- Rule 5.340. Judicial education for child support commissioners
- Rule 5.350. Procedures for hearings to cancel (set aside) voluntary declarations of parentage or paternity when no previous action has been filed
- Rule 5.355. Minimum standards of training for court clerk staff whose assignment includes title IV-D child support cases
- Rule 5.360. Appearance by local child support agency
- Rule 5.365. Procedure for consolidation of child support orders
- Rule 5.370. Party designation in interstate and intrastate cases
- Rule 5.372. Transfer of title IV-D cases between tribal court and state court
- Rule 5.375. Procedure for a support obligor to file a motion regarding mistaken identity
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Chapter 11. Domestic Violence Cases
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Article 1. Domestic Violence Prevention Act Cases
- Rule 5.380. Agreement and judgment of parentage in Domestic Violence Prevention Act cases
- Rule 5.381. Modification of child custody, visitation, and support orders in Domestic Violence Prevention Act cases
- Rule 5.382. Request to make minor's information confidential in domestic violence protective order proceedings
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Article 2. Tribal Court Protective Orders
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Chapter 12. Separate Trials (Bifurcation) and Interlocutory Appeals
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Article 1. Separate Trials
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Article 2. Interlocutory Appeals
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Chapter 13. Trials and Long-Cause Hearings
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Chapter 14. Default Proceedings and Judgments
- Rule 5.401. Default
- Rule 5.402. Request for default; forms
- Rule 5.405. Judgment checklists
- Rule 5.407. Review of default and uncontested judgments submitted on the basis of declaration under Family Code section 2336
- Rule 5.409. Default and uncontested judgment hearings on judgments submitted on the basis of declarations under Family Code section 2336
- Rule 5.411. Stipulated judgments
- Rule 5.413. Notice of entry of judgment
- Rule 5.415. Completion of notice of entry of judgment
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Chapter 15. Settlement Services
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Chapter 16. Limited Scope Representation; Attorney's Fees and Costs
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Article 1. Limited Scope Representation
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Article 2. Attorney's Fees and Costs
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Chapter 17. Family Law Facilitator
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Chapter 18. Court Coordination Rules
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Chapter 19. Minor Marriage or Domestic Partnership
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Article 1. General Provisions
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Division 2. Rules Applicable in Family and Juvenile Proceedings
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Chapter 1. Contact and Coordination
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Chapter 2. Indian Child Welfare Act
- Rule 5.480. Application
- Rule 5.481. Inquiry and notice
- Rule 5.482. Proceedings after notice
- Rule 5.483. Dismissal and transfer of case
- Former rule 5.484. Renumbered effective January 1, 2020
- Rule 5.484. Emergency proceedings involving an Indian child
- Former rule 5.485. Renumbered effective January 1, 2020
- Rule 5.485. Placement of an Indian child
- Former rule 5.486. Renumbered effective January 1, 2020
- Rule 5.486. Termination of parental rights
- Former rule 5.487. Renumbered effective January 1, 2020
- Rule 5.487. Petition to invalidate orders
- Rule 5.488. Adoption record keeping
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Chapter 3. Intercountry Adoptions
- Rule 5.490. Adoption of a child resident in the United States by a resident of a foreign country party to the Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (Convention or Hague Adoption Convention)
- Rule 5.491. Adoption of a child resident in the United States by a resident of a foreign country not party to the Hague Adoption Convention
- Rule 5.492. Adoption by a United States resident of a child resident in a foreign country that is party to the Hague Adoption Convention
- Rule 5.493. Requirement to request adoption under California law of a child born in a foreign country when the adoption is finalized in the foreign country (Fam. Code, §§ 8912, 8919)
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Chapter 4: Protective Orders [Repealed]
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Division 3. Juvenile Rules
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Chapter 1. Preliminary Provisions-Title and Definitions
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Chapter 2. Commencement of Juvenile Court Proceedings
- Rule 5.510. Proper court; determination of child's residence; exclusive jurisdiction
- Rule 5.512. Joint assessment procedure
- Rule 5.514. Intake; guidelines
- Rule 5.516. Factors to consider
- Rule 5.518. Court-connected child protection/dependency mediation
- Rule 5.520. Filing the petition; application for petition
- Rule 5.522. Remote filing
- Rule 5.523. Electronic service (§ 212.5)
- Rule 5.524. Form of petition; notice of hearing
- Rule 5.526. Citation to appear; warrants of arrest; subpoenas
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Chapter 3. General Conduct of Juvenile Court Proceedings
- Rule 5.530. Persons present
- Rule 5.531. Appearance by telephone (§ 388; Pen. Code § 2625)
- Rule 5.532. Court reporter; transcripts
- Rule 5.534. General provisions-all proceedings
- Rule 5.536. General provisions-proceedings held before referees
- Rule 5.538. Conduct of proceedings held before a referee not acting as a temporary judge
- Rule 5.540. Orders of referees not acting as temporary judges
- Rule 5.542. Rehearing of proceedings before referees
- Rule 5.544. Prehearing motions (§ 700.1)
- Rule 5.546. Prehearing discovery
- Rule 5.548. Granting immunity to witnesses
- Rule 5.550. Continuances
- Rule 5.552. Confidentiality of records (§§ 827, 827.12, 828)
- Rule 5.553. Juvenile case file of a deceased child
- Rule 5.555. Hearing to consider termination of juvenile court jurisdiction over a nonminor-dependents or wards of the juvenile court in a foster care placement and nonminor dependents (§§ 224.1(b), 303, 366.31, 391, 451, 452, 607.2, 607.3, 16501.1 (g)(16))
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Chapter 4. Subsequent Petitions and Modifications
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Chapter 5. Appellate Review
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Chapter 6. Emancipation
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Chapter 7. Intercounty Transfers; Out-of-County Placements; Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
- Rule 5.610. Transfer-out hearing
- Rule 5.612. Transfer-in hearing
- Rule 5.613. Transfer of nonminor dependents
- Rule 5.614. Out-of-county placements
- Rule 5.616. Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
- Rule 5.618. Placement in short-term residential therapeutic program (§§ 361.22, 727.12)
- Rule 5.619. Voluntary placement in psychiatric residential treatment facility (Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 361.23, 727.13)
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Chapter 8. Restraining Orders, Custody Orders, and Guardianships General Court Authority
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Chapter 9. Parentage
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Chapter 10. Medication, Mental Health, and Education
- Rule 5.640. Psychotropic medications
- Rule 5.642. Authorization to release psychotropic medication prescription information to Medical Board of California
- Former Rule 5.645. Renumbered effective January 1, 2020
- Rule 5.643. Mental health or condition of child; court procedures
- Rule 5.645. Mental health or condition of child; competency evaluations
- Rule 5.647. Medi-Cal: Presumptive Transfer of Specialty Mental Health Services
- Rule 5.649. Right to make educational or developmental-services decisions
- Rule 5.650. Appointed educational rights holder
- Rule 5.651. Educational and developmental-services decisionmaking rights
- Rule 5.652. Access to pupil records for truancy purposes
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Chapter 11. Advocates for Parties
- Rule 5.655. Program requirements for Court Appointed Special Advocate programs
- Rule 5.660. Attorneys for parties (§§ 317, 317.5, 317.6, 353, 366.26, 16010.6)
- Rule 5.661. Representation of the child on appeal
- Rule 5.662. Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) guardian ad litem for a child subject to a juvenile dependency petition
- Rule 5.663. Responsibilities of children's counsel in delinquency proceedings (§§ 202, 265, 633, 634, 634.3 634.6, 679, 700)
- Rule 5.664. Training requirements for children's counsel in delinquency proceedings (§ 634.3)
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Chapter 12. Cases Petitioned Under Section 300
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Article 1. Initial Hearing
- Rule 5.667. Service and notice
- Rule 5.668. Commencement of hearing-explanation of proceedings (§§ 316, 316.2)
- Rule 5.670. Initial hearing; detention hearings; time limit on custody; setting jurisdiction hearing; visitation (§§ 309, 311, 313, 315, 362.1)
- Rule 5.672. Continuances
- Rule 5.674. Conduct of hearing; admission, no contest, submission
- Rule 5.676. Requirements for detention
- Rule 5.678. Findings in support of detention; factors to consider; reasonable efforts; active efforts; detention alternatives
- Rule 5.680. Detention rehearings; prima facie hearings [Repealed]
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Article 2. Jurisdiction
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Article 3. Disposition
- Rule 5.690. General conduct of disposition hearing
- Rule 5.695. Findings and orders of the court-disposition
- Rule 5.697. Disposition Hearing for a Nonminor (Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 224.1, 295, 303, 358, 358.1, 361, 366.31, 390, 391)
- Rule 5.700. Termination of jurisdiction-custody and visitation orders (§§ 302, 304, 361.2, 362.4, 726.5)
- Rule 5.705. Setting a hearing under section 366.26
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Article 4. Reviews, Permanent Planning
- Rule 5.706. Family maintenance review hearings (§ 364)
- Rule 5.707. Review or dispositional hearing requirements for child approaching majority (§§ 224.1, 366(a)(1)(F), 366.3, 366.31, 16501.1(f)(16))
- Rule 5.708. General review hearing requirements
- Rule 5.710. Six-month review hearing
- Rule 5.715. Twelve-month permanency hearing
- Rule 5.720. Eighteen-month permanency review hearing
- Rule 5.722. Twenty-four-month subsequent permanency review hearing
- Rule 5.725. Selection of permanent plan (§§ 366.24, 366.26, 727.31)
- Rule 5.726. Prospective adoptive parent designation (§§ 366.26(n), 16010.6)
- Rule 5.727. Proposed removal (§ 366.26(n))
- Rule 5.728. Emergency removal (§ 366.26(n))
- Rule 5.730. Adoption
- Rule 5.735. Legal guardianship
- Rule 5.740. Hearings after selection of a permanent plan (§§ 366.26, 366.3, 16501.1)
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Chapter 13. Cases Petitioned Under Sections 601 and 602
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Article 1. Initial Appearance
- Rule 5.752. Initial hearing; detention hearings; time limit on custody; setting jurisdiction hearing
- Rule 5.754. Commencement of initial hearing-explanation, advisement, admission
- Rule 5.756. Conduct of detention hearing
- Rule 5.758. Requirements for detention; prima facie case
- Rule 5.760. Detention hearing; report; grounds; determinations; findings; orders; factors to consider for detention; restraining orders
- Rule 5.762. Detention rehearings
- Rule 5.764. Prima facie hearings
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Article 2. Hearing on Transfer of Jurisdiction to Criminal Court
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Article 3. Jurisdiction
- Rule 5.774. Setting petition for hearing-detained and nondetained cases; waiver of hearing
- Rule 5.776. Grounds for continuance of jurisdiction hearing
- Rule 5.778. Commencement of hearing on section 601 or section 602 petition; right to counsel; advisement of trial rights; admission, no contest
- Rule 5.780. Contested hearing on section 601 or section 602 petition
- Rule 5.782. Continuance pending disposition hearing
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Article 4. Disposition
- Rule 5.785. General conduct of hearing
- Rule 5.790. Orders of the court
- Rule 5.795. Required determinations
- Rule 5.800. Deferred entry of judgment
- Rule 5.804. Commitment to secure youth treatment facility
- Rule 5.805. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Justice, commitments [Repealed]
- Rule 5.806. Secure youth treatment facility baseline term
- Rule 5.807. Secure youth treatment facility progress review process
- Rule 5.808. Discharge from secure youth treatment facility (§ 875(e)(3) & (4))
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Article 5. Reviews and Sealing
- Rule 5.810. Reviews, hearings, and permanency planning
- Rule 5.811. Modification to transition jurisdiction for a ward older than 17 years and 5 months with a petition subject to dismissal (Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 450, 451, 727.2(i)-(j), 778; Pen. Code, § 236.14)
- Rule 5.812. Additional requirements for any hearing to terminate jurisdiction over child in foster care and for status review or dispositional hearing for child approaching majority (§§ 450, 451, 727.2(i)-(j), 778)
- Rule 5.813. Modification to transition jurisdiction for a ward older than 18 years and younger than 21 years of age (§§ 450, 451)
- Rule 5.814. Modification to transition jurisdiction for a ward older than 17 years, 5 months of age and younger than 18 years of age (§§ 450, 451)
- Rule 5.815. Appointment of legal guardians for wards of the juvenile court; modification or termination of guardianship Legal guardianship-wards (§§ 366.26, 727.3, 728)
- Rule 5.820. Termination of parental rights for child in foster care for 15 of the last 22 months
- Rule 5.825. Freeing wards for adoption
- Rule 5.830. Sealing records (§ 781)
- Rule 5.840. Dismissal of petition and sealing of records (§ 786)
- Rule 5.850 Sealing of records by probation in diversion cases (§ 786.5)
- Rule 5.860. Prosecuting attorney request to access sealed juvenile case files
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Chapter 14. Nonminor Dependent
- Rule 5.900. Nonminor dependent-preliminary provisions (§§ 224.1(b), 295, 303, 366, 366.3, 388, 391, 607(a))
- Rule 5.903. Nonminor dependent status review hearing (§§ 224.1(b), 295, 366.1, 366.3, 366.31)
- Rule 5.906. Request by nonminor for the juvenile court to resume jurisdiction (§§ 224.1(b), 303, 388(e), 388.1)
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