How This Site Verifies What It Publishes
This site is written anonymously. That means you have no name to weigh, no firm to look up, and no reason to take anything here on faith. So here is the process, in enough detail that you can judge it.
Last reviewed: August 2026
Every proposition traces to a pin cite
Nothing on this site rests on "courts have held" or "generally speaking." If a page states a rule, it names the code section with its subdivision, or the case with its full citation and year.
The subdivision matters and it is not decoration. CCP 2030.300 and CCP 2030.300(c) are different claims, and on most discovery questions the trap lives in the subdivision. A page here that cannot name one has not earned the sentence.
Citations are verified before they are published, not after
Every statutory claim, deadline, day count, form number and case holding goes through Thomson Reuters research before it appears on a page. Nothing gets written from memory, including rules I have known for years, because the statutes in this area have moved repeatedly and memory is exactly how a 2019 rule ends up on a 2026 page.
Internally the citations sit in one of two states. Confirmed means it has been run, pinned to a subdivision, and dated. Staged means it is written down but not yet verified, and staged material does not go on the site. There is no third category and nothing publishes from the second one.
When something cannot be settled, the page says so in the text rather than stating it with false confidence.
Every deadline states three facts
A deadline is not useful unless you know what starts it. So every deadline on this site states:
What triggers it. Service, filing, receipt, or the trial date.
Whether it runs in calendar days or court days.
Whether service-method extensions apply, under CCP 1010.6 for electronic
service or CCP 1013 for mail.
If a page gives you a number without all three, it is incomplete and I want to know about it.
Jurisdictional deadlines are labeled as such
Some deadlines are ordinary. Miss one and you apologize, refile, and move on. Others cannot be recovered by any judge under any showing.
Conflating those two is the worst error this site could make, so anything jurisdictional or quasi-jurisdictional is called out explicitly, at the top of the page, before the table of contents. Where the distinction is subtle, the page explains the distinction rather than flattening it.
What "Last reviewed" means
It means a person read that specific page against the operative code sections on that date. It does not mean the page was touched, reformatted, or republished.
Confirmed citations get re-verified at least every 12 months. The reason most competing pages on these topics are wrong is not that they were wrong when written. It is that nobody went back.
When a statute changes in a way that affects a page, the page gets updated and the change gets said out loud in the text rather than quietly edited in.
What this site does not do
It does not calculate your dates. Date arithmetic with court holidays and service extensions belongs in a tool, not a paragraph. Where a page involves a calculation, it links to calcourtdeadlines.com, which shows the CCP citation behind each step.
It does not cover local rules it cannot speak to. See Scope.
It does not sell anything. No ads, no clients, no consultation form, no email capture, no affiliate links. Nothing on this site is a funnel to a law practice, mine or anyone else's.
It is not a substitute for reading the statute. Everything here is a starting point for your own verification, and on anything load-bearing you should go read the section. The whole point of pin citing is to make that fast.
How this site can be wrong
Three ways, and it is more useful to name them than to pretend otherwise.
A statute changes and the page has not caught up. The 12-month cycle means a page can be stale for months. Check the review date and check the section.
A local rule or standing order controls and the page does not know about it. This is the most likely failure. Statewide rules are only the floor, and your department may want something the Judicial Council never asked for.
I read a case too broadly. Every holding here is stated as narrowly as the case supports, but that is a judgment call and judgment calls are wrong sometimes.
Tell me when something is wrong
If you find an error, I want it. A correction on a page that a practitioner may rely on is worth more to me than any amount of traffic.
Corrections get made, and where the error was substantive the page says what changed and when.