{"id":4312,"date":"2026-02-18T16:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:58:23","slug":"rules-of-civil-procedure-effective-february-13-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/2026\/02\/18\/rules-of-civil-procedure-effective-february-13-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules of Civil Procedure &#8211; Effective February 13, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The amendments to Rules 1, 42, 63, and 63A of the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure were made final and effective as of Friday, February\u00a013, 2026 upon approval of Senate\u00a0Joint Resolution, <a href=\"https:\/\/le.utah.gov\/~2026\/bills\/static\/SJR005.html\">SJR05<\/a> by a constitutional two-thirds vote of all members elected to each house.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/02\/URCP-Rule-1-Redline-02.17.2026.pdf\">URCP001.<\/a> <strong>General Provisions<\/strong>. FINAL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/02\/URCP-Rule-42-Redline-02.17.2026.pdf\">URCP042.<\/a> <strong>Consolidation; separate trials; venue transfer<\/strong>. FINAL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/02\/URCP-Rule-63-Redline-02.17.2026.pdf\">URCP063.<\/a> <strong>Disability or Disqualification of a judge.<\/strong> FINAL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/02\/URCP-63A-Redline-02.18.2026-1.pdf\">URCP063A. <\/a><strong>Change of judge as a matter of right.<\/strong> FINAL.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amendments to Rules 1, 42, 63, and 63A of the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure were made final and effective as of Friday, February\u00a013, 2026 upon approval of Senate\u00a0Joint Resolution, SJR05 by a constitutional two-thirds vote of all members elected to each house. URCP001. General Provisions. FINAL. URCP042. Consolidation; separate trials; venue transfer. FINAL. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,956,67,272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urcp001","category-urcp042","category-urcp063","category-urcp063a"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 10:12:25","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\/4312","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=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4320,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/4320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}