Description: The Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee proposes amending a rule of court, revising three forms, and approving three new optional forms to implement recent legislative changes concerning the sealing of juvenile records. The legislative changes allow access to sealed records for two additional purposes and expand sealing of records for youth diverted from the juvenile courts.
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: SPR21-11
Deadline: May 27, 2021
File: spr21-11.pdf
Description: The Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee proposes revising several forms in order to provide court users and the public with information regarding relief available to incarcerated or involuntarily institutionalized child support obligors. The proposed revisions are needed to reflect new law under recently reenacted Family Code section 4007.5.
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: SPR21-10
Deadline: May 27, 2021
File: spr21-10.pdf
Description: The Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee proposes revising the mandatory coversheet for all child custody evaluation reports. The proposed revisions to form FL-328 are needed to reflect the more stringent limitations on access to child custody evaluation reports involving serious allegations of child sexual abuse or child abuse conducted under Family Code section 3118.1.
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: SPR21-09
Deadline: May 27, 2021
File: spr21-09.pdf
Description: The Collaborative Justice Courts Advisory Committee recommends amending rule 10.56 of the California Rules of Court to expand and clarify its areas of focus and duties. This recommendation would allow the advisory committee to better address judicial leadership and court processes impacting collaborative justice courts and similar programs that impact individuals who are moving through the court system and who have mental illnesses, substance use disorders, or co-occurring disorders. These proposed amendments seek to (1) revise the scope of duties to more accurately align with the evolution of collaborative courts, and (2) allow the advisory committee to address diversion and other collaborative programs involving the courts and informed by—or could benefit from—the incorporation of collaborative justice court principles and practices.
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: SPR21-04
Deadline: May 27, 2021
File: spr21-04.pdf
Description: The Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee proposes amending two rules and adopting two forms to implement recent statutory changes that authorize placing agencies to petition the court on behalf of nonminor dependents who were ineligible for federal funding as children to terminate the nonminors from juvenile dependency or transitional jurisdiction and immediately reenter them to allow a new federal eligibility determination to be undertaken so that federal matching funds can be accessed to cover the costs of their cases.
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: W22-04
Deadline: January 21, 2022
File: w22-04.pdf
Description: The Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee proposes amending one rule and revising four forms relating to child custody evaluations and reports. The proposed revisions are needed to clarify the differences in the statutory requirements for child custody evaluations that are conducted under Family Code section 3111 and Family Code section 3118.1 The committee proposes other technical changes to make the language in the rule and forms consistent with each other.
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: W22-03
Deadline: January 21, 2022
File: w22-03.pdf
Description: Under Family Code section 4054, the Judicial Council periodically reviews the Statewide Uniform Child Support Guideline to recommend to the Legislature any appropriate revisions. Prior to submission to the Legislature, the report is made available for public comment, with any comments received attached as an appendix to the report, so that they can be forwarded to the Legislature for its consideration.The committee is seeking comments from the public on California’s child support guideline but\n\n is specifically seeking comment on the most significant recommendations from the report which\n\n are to revise the guideline to:
- Provide that incarceration is not voluntary unemployment;
- Provide for the consideration of the factors listed in federal regulation when income
- imputation or presumption is authorized; and
- Improve the current low-income adjustment (LIA) to ensure protections for low-income
- parents.
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: SP22-01
Deadline: February 21, 2022
File: sp22-01.pdf
Description: The Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee proposes the adoption of five new Judicial Council forms and the revision of 16 forms to implement new laws enacted by Senate Bill 320 (Rubio; Stats. 2021, ch. 685), Senate Bill 24 (Caballero; Stats. 2021, ch. 129), Assembly Bill 1057 (Petrie-Norris; Stats. 2021, ch. 682), Senate Bill 538 (Rubio; Stats. 2021, ch. 686), Senate Bill 374 (Min; Stats. 2021, ch. 135), and Assembly Bill 277 (Valladares; Stats. 2021, ch. 457). The committee also recommends revoking three forms, as these forms would be combined with other existing forms, and repealing rule 5.495 of the California Rules of Court, which has been codified by SB 320.
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: SPR22-20
Deadline: May 13, 2022
File: spr22-20.pdf
Description: The Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee and the Probate and Mental Health Advisory Committee propose adopting one form, approving two forms, and revising three forms to implement Assembly Bill 260 (Stats. 2021, ch. 578). AB 260 amended Government Code section 68511.1 to require that the Judicial Council develop a form explaining the nature of a guardianship; the rights, duties, and obligations of a guardian; and the services and supports available to a probate guardian compared with those available to a caregiver in the child welfare system and a guardian appointed by juvenile court. Implementing this section requires adopting one form for mandatory use, revising two forms and converting them from mandatory to optional use, and approving one form for optional use. The bill also amended Probate Code section 1511 to require that notice of the hearing on a petition to appoint a probate guardian include a copy of the new mandatory information form.
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: SPR22-17
Deadline: May 13, 2022
File: spr22-17.pdf
Description: The Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee recommends revising three forms to conform to recent statutory changes to (1) the information that must be provided to the juvenile court about a youth’s housing plans when exiting foster care, and (2) the information that must be provided to youth approaching 18 years of age enacted by Assembly Bill 546 (Maienschein; Stats. 2021, ch. 519) and Assembly Bill 674 (Bennett; Stats. 2021, ch. 524).
Category: Family and Juvenile
Item Number: SPR22-15
Deadline: May 13, 2022
File: spr22-15.pdf