{"id":4187,"date":"2025-10-01T18:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:46:26","slug":"rules-of-juvenile-procedure-effective-november-1-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/2025\/10\/01\/rules-of-juvenile-procedure-effective-november-1-2025-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules of Juvenile Procedure &#8211; Effective November 1, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/Rule-34-Draft-July-9-2025-redline-for-Final-Publication.pdf\">URJP034.<\/a> <strong>Pre-trial hearing in non-delinquency cases. Amend.<\/strong> In response\u00a0to\u00a0<i>In re J.M<\/i>., 2024 UT App 147, the approved amendments to Rule 34 include: (1) stylistic and grammatical changes that aim to provide clarity; (2) in paragraph (c),\u00a0articulation of the court\u2019s process in informing respondents of their rights and potential consequences upon adjudication of the petition; (3) removal of the language in paragraph (d)&#8211;this language is contained in Rule 19&#8211;and replacing it with the requirement to capture of a respondent&#8217;s answer in open court; (4) in paragraph (e), when a respondent declines to admit or deny the allegations, the respondent can proceed with an &#8220;uncontested answer;&#8221; (5) paragraph (f) directs the court to find that admissions or uncontested answers and waiver of rights are knowing and voluntary; (6) and in paragraph (g), provide a mechanism to respondents seeking relief from admissions or uncontested answers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/Rules-34-Signed-Order-Effective-11-1-2025.pdf\">Supreme Court Order<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URJP034. Pre-trial hearing in non-delinquency cases. Amend. In response\u00a0to\u00a0In re J.M., 2024 UT App 147, the approved amendments to Rule 34 include: (1) stylistic and grammatical changes that aim to provide clarity; (2) in paragraph (c),\u00a0articulation of the court\u2019s process in informing respondents of their rights and potential consequences upon adjudication of the petition; (3) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rule","category-urjp034"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 09:59:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4191,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions\/4191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}