Santa Barbara Superior Court Filing Timing and Cure Windows

WARNING

Deadline

45 calendar days

An unlawful detainer case not resolved or set for trial within 45 calendar days after the complaint is filed may be set for a status CMC.

Any unlawful detainer case not resolved or set for trial within forty-five (45) calendar days after the date the complaint was filed may be set for CMC to determine the status of such case.

WARNING

The clerk may not reopen the case more than 90 days after bail is posted and forfeited online.

c. After 90 days of posting and forfeiting bail online, clerk may not reopen case.

WARNING

Social study reports must be made available to the Juvenile Court and all parties or counsel within a reasonable time before the scheduled hearing.

Social study reports, whether prepared by the Probation Department or the Social Services Department, shall be made available to the Juvenile Court, and all parties or counsel within a reasonable time prior to the date scheduled by the court for hearings.

WARNING

Deadline

1 court days

To the extent practicable, supporting papers should be filed by 10:00 a.m. on the court day before the hearing; later papers may not reach the court in time and may require a continuance.

To the extent practicable, papers in support of an ex parte application should be filed and served by 10:00 a.m. on the court day before the scheduled hearing; later-filed papers may not be timely available to the court and may require a continuance of the hearing.

WARNING

Deadline

2 court days

The other party may file and serve a counter-request using local court form SC-4014 no later than two (2) court days of the case management conference set by the court pursuant to the request.

The other party may file and serve a counter-request using local court form SC-4014 no later than two (2) court days of the case management conference set by the court pursuant to the request.

WARNING

Deadline

2 court days

Supplements or corrections processed within two court days before a hearing will not appear in the posted notes and may result in a continuance, though the court may consider them; parties submitting documents after the deadline must appear.

Supplements and corrections processed within two (2) court days prior to the hearing will not be reflected in the posted notes, and such matters may be continued to another date to allow review. However, the Court, in its discretion, may consider such late-filed supplements/corrections. Parties submitting documents after the deadline must appear at the hearing.

WARNING

Unless accountings are dispensed with, the court sets a deadline for the first accounting and report, typically no later than 90 days after the first appointment anniversary.

At the time the Court appoints a conservator or guardian, and unless the Court dispenses with accountings, the Court will set a compliance date for the conservator or guardian to file his or her first accounting and report, which will typically be no later than 90 days after the first year anniversary of the appointment of the conservator or guardian.

WARNING

For a transferred case, unless the court orders otherwise, the CMC must be scheduled within 90 calendar days after the transferee court clerk receives the file.

In the event a case is transferred from another county or from another division of this Court, unless otherwise ordered by the Court, a CMC shall be scheduled within ninety (90) calendar days from receipt of the file by the Clerk of the transferee court.

WARNING

From 31 to 90 days after bail is posted and forfeited online, the clerk may reopen the case if the defendant files a motion to vacate the bail forfeiture.

b. Within 31 to 90 days of posting and forfeiting bail online, clerk may reopen case upon defendant filing motion to vacate bail forfeiture.

WARNING

After each subsequent accounting and report, the court sets a compliance date for the next one, typically every two years thereafter.

Each time the Court hears a subsequent accounting and report, it will set a compliance date for the next accounting and report, which will typically be every two years thereafter.

WARNING

Within 30 days after bail is posted and forfeited online, the clerk may reopen the case upon receiving a written not-guilty plea.

a. Within 30 days of posting and forfeiting bail online, clerk may reopen case upon receipt of written ‘not guilty’ plea.

WARNING

Either party may file and serve a completed Form SC-4014 requesting an earlier case management or trial setting conference after 60 days have passed since service of the petition.

At any time after 60 days after the petition is served on the other party, either party may file and serve a completed local court form SC-4014 to request an earlier case management conference or trial setting conference.

WARNING

The court’s practice is to enforce Probate Code deadlines for inventories, appraisals, accountings, and other required first-year acts through a Conservatorship Compliance Order issued with the Letters.

It is the practice of this Court to enforce Probate Code time limitations for the filing of inventory and appraisals and other acts required during the first year up to an including accountings by the issuance of a Conservatorship Compliance Order concurrent with issuance of Letters.

WARNING

Deadline

120 calendar days

In general civil cases, the CMC must be scheduled 120 calendar days after the complaint is filed, and the plaintiff must be sent notice of the judge assignment and CMC date.

A Case Management Conference (‘CMC’) shall be scheduled one hundred twenty (120) calendar days from the date of filing the complaint and notice of the ‘all-purpose judge’ assignment and the date set for the CMC will be sent to the Plaintiff.