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Posted: June 13, 2017
URJP018 Adds language regarding the ability to serve a pleading by email on an attorney who has an email account on file with the Utah State Bar. Clarifies that eFiling in the Juvenile Court’s Court and Agency Records Exchange (C.A.R.E.) does not constitute service upon a party and that an agreement to accept email service is not required to effectuate the provisions of Rule 18.
Posted: July 14, 2016
URCrP017.5 New. Hearings with contemporaneous transmission from a different location.
URCP043 Amend. Evidence.
URJP029B New. Hearings with contemporaneous transmission from a different location.
URJP037B New. Hearings with contemporaneous transmission from a different location.
Supreme Court Order (Rule 17.5)
Supreme Court Order (Rules 29B and 37B)
Posted: October 28, 2015
URJP 058. Victim rights. Amend. Requires the filing party or individual to redact all safeguarded victim information prior to filing a document for review by the judge and to certify that the information has been redacted. Makes an exception for information required by law in child welfare proceedings.
Supreme Court Order.
Posted: February 24, 2015
URJP 002. Applicability of Rules of Civil Procedure and Criminal Procedure. Amend. Amends the rule to replace the term “permanent deprivation of parental rights” with “termination of parental rights.”
URJP 023. Hearing to waive jurisdiction and certify under Section 78A-6-703; bind over to district court. Amend. Amends the rule to comply with statutory changes to section 78A-6-703 enacted following the 2014 legislative general session.
URJP 023A. Hearing on conditions of Section 78A-6-702; bind over to district court. Amend. Amends the rule to comport with statutory changes to 78A-6-702 enacted following the 2014 legislative general session.
Supreme Court Order.
Posted: January 22, 2014
URJP 047. Reviews and modification of orders. Amend. Clarifies questions regarding the timeliness of a request for an evidentiary hearing as addressed by the Court of Appeals in In re P.D., 2013 UT App 151. Describes intervention plans.
Supreme Court Order.
URJP 050. Presence at hearings. New. Resolves inconsistencies between Rule 50 and Utah Code Section 78A-6-114.
Supreme Court Order.
Posted: February 14, 2013
URJP 020. Discovery generally. Amend. Provides that the financial disclosure requirements of the civil discovery rule does not apply in juvenile court unless ordered.
Supreme Court Order.
Posted: July 27, 2012
URJP 020A. Discovery in non-delinquency proceedings. Amend. Changes comport with the new civil discovery rules and to clarify that the Rule of Civil Procedure regarding subpoenas applies generally in juvenile court and is not limited to depositions on oral questions.
URJP 023. Hearing to waive jurisdiction and certify under Section 78A-6-703; bind over to district court. Amend. Technical change.
URJP 023A. Hearing on conditions of Section 78A-6-702; bind over to district court. Amend. Technical change.
Supreme Court Order
Posted: August 2, 2011
URJP 029A. Visual recording of statement or testimony of child victim or witness of sexual or physical abuse – Conditions of admissibility. Amend. Modifies the conditions for using as evidence a recorded oral statement of a minor under 14.
Supreme Court Order
Posted: March 1, 2011
URJP 056. Expungement. Amend. Remove provisions governed by other laws. Amend requirement for criminal history verifications to judicial discretion.
Supreme Court Order.
Posted: September 20, 2010
URJP 03. Style of pleadings and forms. Amend. Makes technical amendments.
URJP 25A. Withdrawal of plea. New. Establishes standards and procedures for withdrawal of a plea in juvenile court.
URJP 36. Cases certified from the district court. Amend. Requires the party raising the issue of support, custody or parent time to inform the court and parties of any orders from any other court. Requires that a juvenile court order be filed by the prevailing party in any related district court case and contain the captions of both courts.
Supreme Court Order
URJP 018. Summons; service of process; notice. Amend. Describes how children and adults are to be named in juvenile court records.
Supreme Court Order.