Yolo 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.
9 documents, 5 required sections, taken from Superior Court of California, County of Yolo'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.
A blank template is easy to find anywhere. What is hard to find is which sections this court requires inside the document, because that lives in a local rule nobody indexes. Every heading below is cited to the subdivision it came from, and the rule's own sentence prints beside it in the reference sheet so you can check your work.
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- Case Management Statement
- Brief Trial Statement
- List of Special Questions Proposed for Jury Voir Dire
- Motions in Limine
- Jury Instructions
- Opposition to Motions in Limine
- Proposed Trial Exhibits
- Original Deposition Transcripts
- Written Request for the Services of a Court Reporter
What each document has to carry
Case Management Statement
Prepared by each party. Filed, 15 days before the case management conference. Applies to all civil cases. Yolo Superior Court local form YOCV0142, Notice of Case Management Conference, rev. 8/2022. A local form listed in Appendix 1 of the local rules at p. 40 of 44, not a numbered rule, so there is no subdivision.
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.
Brief Trial Statement
Prepared by each party. Filed and served, not later than 15 calendar days before the first day of trial. Applies to all civil trials. Yolo Local Rule 13.2(a), Chapter 2 Civil Rules, Rule 13 Civil Trials, p. 18 of 44
- Facts, undisputed facts and issues of law
- A concise statement of the facts supporting the party's claims or defenses
- A statement of admitted or undisputed facts
- A statement of issues of law
- Names of all witnesses, except impeachment and rebuttal witnesses
- The names of all witnesses, except impeachment and rebuttal witnesses
List of Special Questions Proposed for Jury Voir Dire
Prepared by each party. Filed and served, not later than 15 calendar days before the first day of trial. Applies to jury trials only. Yolo Local Rule 13.2(b), p. 18 of 44
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 and served, not later than 15 calendar days before the first day of trial. Applies to all civil trials. Yolo Local Rule 13.2(c), p. 18 of 44
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.
Jury Instructions
Prepared by each party. Filed and served, not later than 15 calendar days before the first day of trial, unless the Court advises otherwise. Applies to jury trials only. Yolo Local Rule 13.2(d), p. 18 of 44
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 calendar days before the first day of trial. Applies to all civil trials. Yolo Local Rule 13.2(c), second sentence, p. 18 of 44
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 Trial Exhibits
Prepared by each party. Lodged, lodged in paper with the trial department once a department is assigned, unless the Court instructs otherwise. Applies to all civil trials. Yolo Local Rule 7.9(b), Chapter 1 Organization and Administration, Rule 7 Electronic Filing and Service, p. 13 of 44
- Pre-marking with the courtroom clerk
- Arrangements made with the courtroom clerk to pre-mark the exhibits
- Pre-marking done outside the presence of the judge or jury
- Pre-marking completed before trial begins on the day those exhibits are to be used
- Plaintiffs' exhibits marked with numbers
- Defendants' exhibits marked with letters
- Digital evidence and presentation equipment
- All digital evidence exchanged with opposing counsel in advance of trial
- All digital evidence submitted to the court in advance of trial
- Presentation equipment supplied by the party itself
Original Deposition Transcripts
Prepared by each party. Lodged, lodged with the courtroom clerk before the trial begins. Applies to any case in which a party plans to use a deposition at trial. Yolo Local Rule 13.4, p. 18 of 44
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.
Written Request for the Services of a Court Reporter
Prepared by each party. Submitted in writing through the Courtroom Support Division, five court days before the calendar date for which the reporter is wanted, with any court associated fees paid in advance. Applies to any civil proceeding, trial included, at which a party wants an official court reporter, in a court that does not normally make one available in civil cases. Yolo Local Rule 6.2, Chapter 1, Rule 6 Court Reporter, p. 10 of 44
- Request for court reporting services
- A written request for the services of a court reporter
- The request routed through the Courtroom Support Division
- Any court associated fees paid in advance
When each one is due
These run off the trial date itself. The county rules set no conference for them to run off, so count each deadline back from trial. The full rule list for Yolo 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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