Description:
Assembly Bill 2759 (Petrie-Norris; Stats. 2024, ch. 535), effective January 1, 2025, created new
requirements for granting a firearm exemption to a restraining order that includes a firearm or
ammunition prohibition. The Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee proposes changes to
domestic violence and juvenile restraining order forms to reflect the new requirements. The
committee also proposes revisions to form CLETS-001 to include an instruction for petitioners
of retail theft protective orders and to make other changes in response to suggestions from
stakeholders
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: SPR25-26
Deadline: May 23, 2025
File: spr25-26.pdf
Description:
To implement Senate Bill 1427 (Stats. 2024, ch. 190), the Family and Juvenile Law Advisory
Committee proposes that the Judicial Council amend four rules of court, adopt three mandatory
forms, and approve two optional forms. Effective January 1, 2026, SB 1427 authorizes parties
who do not qualify to use the current summary dissolution process to file a joint summons and a
joint petition to ask the court for a dissolution of the marriage or domestic partnership or for a
legal separation. The legislation requires the Judicial Council to adopt or amend any rules or
forms necessary for implementation.
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: SPR25-21
Deadline: May 23, 2025
File: spr25-21.pdf
Description:
Assembly Bill 2664 (Bryan; Stats. 2024, ch. 412) amended Welfare and Institutions Code
section 361.49 to clarify the date a child is deemed to have entered foster care for the purpose
of establishing timelines for the provision of reunification services. The Family and Juvenile
Law Advisory Committee proposes amending two definitions in rule 5.502 of the California
Rules of Court to conform to the law.
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: SPR25-20
Deadline: May 23, 2025
File: spr25-20.pdf
Description:
The Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee proposes revising Information on Filing a
Petition to Terminate Juvenile Sex Offender Registration (form JV-915-INFO) to correct legally
inaccurate statements in the form. The form currently states that the Department of Justice
determines the registration tier for individuals required to register due to a juvenile adjudication
and that a subsequent violent felony conviction or a conviction for an offense requiring sex
offender registration disqualifies an applicant from requesting termination of juvenile sex
offender registration. Because neither of those statements reflect the controlling statutory
provisions, the committee accordingly proposes their removal from the form.
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: SPR25-19
Deadline: May 23, 2025
File: spr25-19.pdf
Description:
Juvenile courts expect more claims under the Racial Justice Act to be filed since recent
legislation expanded the retroactive application of the act, enabling more individuals to file
claims for relief. The Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee proposes five new forms to
assist litigants and juvenile courts with claims under the act.
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: SPR25-18
Deadline: May 23, 2025
File: spr25-18.pdf
Description:
To implement Assembly Bill 1756 (Stats. 2023, ch. 478, § 62) and Senate Bill 1161 (Stats. 2024,
ch. 782, § 12), and to clarify the different legal standards for petitions seeking release of a
delinquency file or living child’s juvenile dependency case file under Welfare and Institutions
Code section 827(a)(1)(Q) and a deceased child’s juvenile dependency case file under section
827(a)(2), the Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee proposes adopting one rule of the
California Rules of Court, amending three rules of court, approving one form, adopting six
forms, and revising six forms.
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: SPR25-17
Deadline: May 23, 2025
File: spr25-17.pdf
Description:
The Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee proposes amending California Rules of
Court, rule 5.275, which provides standards for computer software used to assist in determining
child support and spousal support. The action is necessary to bring the rule into conformity with
existing law as well as with Family Code provisions related to additional child support that were
amended, effective September 1, 2024, by Senate Bill 343 (Stats. 2023, ch. 213). This proposal
would also update terminology and clarify language relating to (1) computer hardware and
software and (2) guideline calculator software testing and certification.
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: SPR25-16
Deadline: May 23, 2025
File: spr25-16.pdf
Description:
The Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee proposes that the Judicial Council adopt six
forms for mandatory use and approve five forms for optional use in a new form series for parties
(intended parents) who conceive a child with a surrogate (a gestational carrier) under the terms
of a gestational carrier agreement (also called “an assisted reproduction agreement for gestational
carriers”) and then seek a judgment in family court determining a parental relationship under
Family Code sections 7960–7962. The committee also proposes that the council adopt a new rule
of court, amend several rules of court, repeal one rule, and revise three forms specific to
gestational surrogacy cases. The proposal originates from judicial officers and attorneys who
shared their ideas for uniform and streamlined rules and forms, specific to gestational surrogacy
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: SPR25-15
Deadline: May 23, 2025
File: spr25-15.pdf
Description:
Assembly Bill 1186 (Bonta; Stats. 2024, ch. 805) amended provisions of the Penal Code and the Welfare and Institutions Code regarding restitution liability in criminal and juvenile court, including eliminating joint and several liability for co-offending children in juvenile delinquency cases. The Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee proposes revising the restitution order and instructions forms to delete joint and several liability for juvenile co-offenders, address restitution apportionment in juvenile court orders, and clarify the liability of others who may be ordered to pay restitution in criminal and juvenile proceedings. In addition, the committee proposes revisions to allow for use of the order when a child under informal supervision has stipulated to restitution.
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: W25-06
Deadline: January 6, 2025
File: w25-06.pdf
Description:
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: SPR09-31
Deadline: January 1, 2010
File: spr09-31.pdf