Madera County trial document templates
Not legal advice. Rules attested September 29, 2026; last full pass August 17, 2026. Verify every date yourself. Read the full disclaimer
Each verified rule carries its own date on the methodology page, all of them September 29, 2026: the date the maintaining attorney last attested it. The last full pass, signed off on August 17, 2026, checked the rules against their official sources (the code, the California Rules of Court, or for court holidays the Judicial Council calendar), with the exceptions listed on the about page. Rules still awaiting sign-off are listed on the methodology page as not yet verified. County local rules are paraphrased summaries. Individual department and judge standing orders are included only where the court publishes them and we have read the document, so assume your own department has requirements beyond what you see here. Verify every date against the operative code sections, your court's rules and your department's own order before relying on it. Using this site creates no attorney-client relationship.
10 documents, 5 required sections, taken from Superior Court of California, County of Madera's own published rules and read September 14, 2026. Each one downloads as California pleading paper with this court's required sections already placed, so the document cannot silently omit one.
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- Settlement Conference Statement
- Trial Brief
- Motions in Limine
- Opposition to Motions in Limine
- Original Discovery to Be Used During Trial
- Exhibit Lists and Exhibits
- Witness Lists
- Neutral Statement of the Case
- Verdict Forms
- Proposed Jury Instructions
What each document has to carry
Settlement Conference Statement
Prepared by each party. Delivered to the clerk, no less than five court days before the settlement conference. Applies to all civil cases set for a mandatory settlement conference. Madera Super. Ct., Local Rules, rule 2.8.4
- Contents of the settlement statement
- The information required by California Rules of Court, rule 3.1380
- A deliberate choice about service, because the rule deems the statement confidential unless service on the other parties appears on the face of the brief
- Whatever rule 2.8.4 requires past the point where the quoted text breaks off, which has to be read in the rule itself
Trial Brief
Prepared by each party. Filed, fourteen days before trial. Applies to all civil trials, jury and court (bench). Madera County Superior Court, Standing Pre Trial Orders for Department 44 and Department 45 (rev. 9/24/2026), para. 5(a)
The rule cited above requires this document and does not say what goes in it. That is the rule's silence, not a gap here. Your department's order is where the contents will be.
Motions in Limine
Prepared by each party. Filed, fourteen days before trial under the department standing order, and no later than 10 court days before the first day of trial under local rule 3.2.6. Applies to jury trials; in a court trial no motion in limine may be filed without a prior court order. Madera County Superior Court, Standing Pre Trial Orders for Department 44 and Department 45 (rev. 9/24/2026), para. 5(a)
The rule cited above requires this document and does not say what goes in it. That is the rule's silence, not a gap here. Your department's order is where the contents will be.
Opposition to Motions in Limine
Prepared by each party. Filed, seven days before trial under the department standing order, and no later than five court days before the first day of trial under local rule 3.2.6. Applies to jury trials. Madera County Superior Court, Standing Pre Trial Orders for Department 44 and Department 45 (rev. 9/24/2026), para. 5(a)
The rule cited above requires this document and does not say what goes in it. That is the rule's silence, not a gap here. Your department's order is where the contents will be.
Original Discovery to Be Used During Trial
Prepared by each party. Brought to the conference, at the Trial Management Conference, 9:30 a.m. on the Monday the trial is calendared. Applies to all trials, jury and court. Madera County Superior Court, Standing Pre Trial Orders for Department 44 and Department 45 (rev. 9/24/2026), para. 7 preamble and para. 7(a)
The rule cited above requires this document and does not say what goes in it. That is the rule's silence, not a gap here. Your department's order is where the contents will be.
Exhibit Lists and Exhibits
Prepared by each party. Brought to the conference, at the Trial Management Conference, 9:30 a.m. on the Monday the trial is calendared; the exhibit list itself may be emailed to the Judicial Courtroom Assistant. Applies to all trials, jury and court. Madera County Superior Court, Standing Pre Trial Orders for Department 44 and Department 45 (rev. 9/24/2026), para. 7(b)
- Form of the exhibits handed over at the conference
- Exhibits pre-marked before they are brought in
- A separate binder for the clerk
- A separate binder for the witness
- The original set for the trial judge
- Meet and confer on exhibits before the conference
- A meet and confer concerning the exhibits to be introduced at trial, held before the Trial Management Conference and no later than one week before trial
- Stipulations to the admissibility of those exhibits where possible
- Joint exhibits, which the court encourages
Witness Lists
Prepared by each party. Brought to the conference, at the Trial Management Conference, 9:30 a.m. on the Monday the trial is calendared. Applies to all trials, jury and court. Madera County Superior Court, Standing Pre Trial Orders for Department 44 and Department 45 (rev. 9/24/2026), para. 7 preamble and para. 7(c)
The rule cited above requires this document and does not say what goes in it. That is the rule's silence, not a gap here. Your department's order is where the contents will be.
Neutral Statement of the Case
The rule does not say who prepares it. Brought to the conference, at the Trial Management Conference, 9:30 a.m. on the Monday the trial is calendared. Applies to jury trials only. Madera County Superior Court, Standing Pre Trial Orders for Department 44 and Department 45 (rev. 9/24/2026), para. 7 preamble and para. 7(d)
The rule cited above requires this document and does not say what goes in it. That is the rule's silence, not a gap here. Your department's order is where the contents will be.
Verdict Forms
Prepared by each party. Brought to the conference, at the Trial Management Conference, 9:30 a.m. on the Monday the trial is calendared. Applies to jury trials only. Madera County Superior Court, Standing Pre Trial Orders for Department 44 and Department 45 (rev. 9/24/2026), para. 7 preamble and para. 7(e)
The rule cited above requires this document and does not say what goes in it. That is the rule's silence, not a gap here. Your department's order is where the contents will be.
Proposed Jury Instructions
Prepared by each party. Brought to the conference, at the Trial Management Conference under the standing order, and at the commencement of trial under local rule 2.3.2 unless the judge authorizes otherwise. Applies to jury trials only. Madera Super. Ct., Local Rules, rule 2.3.2
- Fully completed instructions submitted at the Trial Management Conference
- Actual jury instructions, not simply CACI, BAJI or CALCRIM numbers
- Bracketed options and blanks filled in for the case being tried
- A set submitted to the court and a set exchanged with each other party
- Form of each instruction
- BAJI, CACI, CALJIC or CALCRIM instructions, with any other offered instruction conforming as nearly as possible to those forms
- No indication of which party submitted the instruction except the code prescribed by the court
- Any statement of the offering party and citations of authority on a separate sheet
- Whatever rule 2.3.1 requires past the point where the quoted text breaks off, which has to be read in the rule itself
When each one is due
Count each deadline back from the date the rule is actually keyed to rather than from trial. The full rule list for Madera County carries every rule with its quoted text, and the trial countdown calculator computes the statewide CCP chain.
How these were built
Every rule was researched from the court's own published text, then checked a second time by a reader told to assume a rule had been invented. Grouping those rules into the documents a court actually wants was a further pass, and an adversarial check corrected it: the commonest error was a document whose contents the first pass left empty while the rule enumerated them. Templates are generated in your browser, so nothing you type is sent anywhere. See methodology.
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