Filing an uncontested divorce in Yuba County

The Marysville courthouse and the family law judge

The court's Locations and Contact Information page lists a single address, Superior Court of California, County of Yuba, 215 Fifth Street, Suite 200, Marysville, CA 95901, telephone (530) 740-1800, and states that all court operations are now located at the Yuba County Courthouse. A dissolution petition, a response, the proofs of service and the judgment packet filed on paper all go to that address.

Assignment of the judge is equally simple. Local Rule 1.3 of the Rules of Court effective July 1, 2026 assigns every case filed in the Family Law Division to one named judge for all purposes. This page prints no judge's name; the rule's point for you is that one judicial officer handles the whole case from petition to judgment.

The Family Law Division page gives the division's own contact details: telephone (530) 740-1800, extension 5, fax (530) 740-1821, and office hours on weekdays, Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. The Local Rules of Court page prints the same office hours and adds telephone hours of 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. The courthouse location page and the Locations and Contact Information page instead show Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Those pages differ on the opening time, and this page follows the Family Law Division page, 8:30 a.m. The Holidays page says the court is closed on designated judicial holidays, and it lists them.

• Courthouse and Family Law Division: 215 Fifth Street, Suite 200, Marysville, CA 95901; (530) 740-1800, extension 5 for the division; fax (530) 740-1821; office hours 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday; telephone hours 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
• Self-Help Center (office hours 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday) and Family Court Services: 215 Fifth Street, Suite 318, Marysville, CA 95901; (530) 740-1850 (the Locations page gives extension 2 for the Self-Help Attorney and Family Law Facilitator).

The first-paper fee, from the schedule the court links

The Yuba court does not post a fee schedule of its own. Its Fee Schedule page explains that fees and fines are set by the State Legislature and that the court's office only collects the fees/fines as mandated by the State of California, and it links the Judicial Council's civil fees page. That page names the current schedule as the Statewide Civil Fee Schedule effective January 1, 2026, which is the schedule this page reads, as of October 19, 2026.

Under that schedule, a petition or other first paper for dissolution of marriage or domestic partnership, legal separation or nullity is item 97, $435, and a response or other first paper filed in response to such a petition is item 98, $435. Item 99, a joint petition for dissolution or legal separation outside the summary dissolution procedure, is $870, and the schedule explains that this fee covers the appearance of both petitioners. Item 100, a joint petition for summary dissolution, is $435. Two items carry no fee at all: item 103, a settlement agreement or stipulation for judgment signed by a defaulted respondent and included in a judgment of dissolution, under Government Code section 70677(c), and item 104, the appearance, stipulation and waiver of rights of a respondent in the armed forces on form FL-130, under section 70673.

The schedule's asterisk marks fees that will vary in the counties of Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Francisco because of a local surcharge. Yuba is not named, so the printed amounts apply in Marysville unchanged. Local Rule 2.1(A) adds the county's payment rule: documents shall not be filed, received, or forwarded to the judge for review unless the full, correct filing fee, or an approved application for waiver of fees, accompanies them. Read against a Yuba uncontested divorce, the 2026 items are:

• Item 97, $435: the petition for dissolution, legal separation or nullity, paid by the spouse who files an ordinary petition.
• Item 98, $435: a response or other first paper in reply to that petition, such as form FL-130, owed only if the other spouse files one.
• Item 99, $870: a joint petition for dissolution or legal separation, other than a summary dissolution, paying for both petitioners at once.
• Item 100, $435: a joint petition under the summary dissolution procedure, which carries one first-paper fee.
• Item 103, no fee: the defaulted spouse's signed settlement agreement or stipulation for judgment, included in the judgment.
• Item 104, no fee: form FL-130 filed by a spouse who is a member of the armed forces.

How many first-paper fees each path pays in Yuba County

Counted path by path: a summary dissolution under Family Code sections 2400 to 2403 is filed with one first-paper fee, $435, the item 100 amount. An ordinary petition costs $435 at filing; where your spouse signs the settlement agreement, never files a response and has a default entered, the agreement enters the judgment without a further fee under item 103, and where your spouse appears by a response or by form FL-130, that first paper falls under item 98 and a second $435 brings the total for the two of you to $870, unless it is an FL-130 from a respondent in the armed forces, which item 104 exempts. A joint petition under Family Code section 2342.5, an option since January 1, 2026, is filed with the fees of Government Code section 70670(b) and (d) together, as subdivision (h) of that section directs unless both spouses hold fee waivers: $870, item 99. The joint petition does not save a court fee in Yuba County; it pays both first-paper fees.

What you pay Law Offices of Rozsa Gyene is a flat fee, set apart from anything the Marysville clerk collects. For a joint petition it is $999; for a summary dissolution, $599; and for an ordinary petition, $1,499. Under that fee the attorney prepares and reviews each document in a limited scope engagement under California Rules of Court, rule 5.425, and prepares written filing instructions for Yuba County that the attorney reviews before you receive them. Included are one revision round of the settlement agreement and the first correction of any judgment packet the court sends back; a further round is quoted before any work on it is done. Fees are earned in stages, with a refund of whatever is unearned if the representation stops early.

You make the filing yourself. The office neither files documents nor serves your spouse, and it does not appear in court, provide a notary, or prepare or record deeds. The office represents one of the two spouses. The other spouse is not a client of the office in the divorce, gets no advice from it, and is free to consult an attorney of their own choosing.

Fee waivers in Yuba County

The court's Dissolution and Divorce page points a low-income filer to File at Home: if you meet the income guidelines, you can fill out a Fee Waiver Packet using the court's File@Home service. The File at Home page says you can print your documents and file at the court or e-file them, even if you have a fee waiver. The request itself is the Judicial Council's Request to Waive Court Fees, form FW-001.

Local Rule 2.1(B), Fee Waivers, authorizes the court's Collection Division, or its agents, to verify all information provided in an application for a fee waiver, and it addresses recovery of waived fees within three years. Under Local Rule 9.0(F), anyone holding a fee waiver owes nothing for electronic filing and service. And Local Rule 2.1(A), described above, lets an approved waiver stand in the place of the filing fee.

The statutory test is in Government Code sections 68630 to 68634. Section 68632 lists three grounds, a listed public benefit, household income at or below the level stated on form FW-001, or fees that cannot be paid without taking from the household's basic needs, and any one of them qualifies. For a joint petition, Family Code section 2342.5(h) keeps both first-paper fees unless both spouses have waivers, so each spouse applies separately. A court fee waiver covers court fees, not the office's flat fee.

E-filing under Local Rule 9.0, File at Home and paper filing

Family law in Yuba has been a mandatory e-filing case type since July 1, 2018. Local Rule 9.0(B) carves out an exception: self-represented parties and non-parties are exempt from the mandatory electronic filing and service requirements, but are encouraged to participate voluntarily. The court's Electronic Filing Requirements, revised July 1, 2018, say the same, and list the papers that may not be e-filed at all, among them deposits, trial exhibits, bonds, wills, sealed documents and vital records forms.

An e-filing goes through Odyssey eFileCA, which the court's e-filing page describes as a way to eFile court documents anytime, anywhere. The court's File at Home service, the Tyler Guide and File tool, prepares the forms and gives the same two choices of printing and filing at the court or e-filing. One Yuba requirement applies to anyone who e-files a family law proposed order: the Electronic Filing Requirements ask that it also be emailed in editable form to FamilyDivision@yuba.courts.ca.gov.

Paper filing is handled by the Family Law Division, whose page describes its purpose as processing and filing documents which have been presented either at the counter or by mail. Local Rule 2.0(A) governs what comes back: a self-addressed, stamped envelope must be provided for the return of endorsed-filed copies, and copies left without one are held for 30 days and then discarded.

Forms, packets and the local forms of Local Rule 8.0

The court no longer publishes its own divorce checklists. Its Form Packet Checklist page says that the court is no longer able to provide up-to-date form packet checklists online and refers filers to File at Home instead. The Forms and Filing page notes that printed form packets, each a collection of related forms, are available for purchase for a nominal fee at the Clerk's Office.

Local Rule 8.0 lists the court's adopted local forms and says they are available on the court's website at www.yuba.courts.ca.gov/forms-filing/local-forms; the Local Forms page describes them as forms specific only to Yuba County Superior Court, adopted as part of the Local Rules of Court. The Local Forms page marks each one Mandatory or Optional. Its family forms concern ex parte requests, petitions for visitation, the nullity hearing notice, FL03040, marked Mandatory, continuances and adult adoptions; a nullity is outside the flat fee, and the other forms belong to hearings and proceedings an agreed dissolution does not involve.

The Judicial Council forms supply the rest. An ordinary case is begun on the Petition, form FL-100, with the Summons, form FL-110; a joint petition with the Joint Petition, form FL-700; a summary dissolution with the Joint Petition for Summary Dissolution, form FL-800, and it ends with the Judgment of Summary Dissolution, form FL-825. Family Code section 2104 then requires each spouse's preliminary declaration of disclosure on form FL-140, with the Income and Expense Declaration, form FL-150, and the Schedule of Assets and Debts, form FL-142, or the Property Declaration, form FL-160; the court receives the proof of that service on form FL-141.

Local rules that reach an uncontested divorce

The Local Rules of Court page links the Yuba County Superior Court Rules of Court effective July 1, 2026. Inside the July 2026 PDF, the adoption paragraph says the judges adopted the rules effective January 1, 2026, and the Chapter 9 page footers carry the same January date. The court's page and the PDF's adoption paragraph differ on the date; this page follows the court's page and refers to the July 1, 2026 edition.

Chapter 5, Family Law, holds Rules 5.0 through 5.13. Rule 5.0 governs hearings and trials in general, including remote appearances in subdivision (F); Rules 5.1 to 5.4 deal with custody counseling, evaluations, investigations and counsel for a child; Rule 5.5 sets a penalty; Rule 5.6 covers a stipulation that modifies an existing order; Rule 5.7 sets out the documents for an uncontested trial; Rules 5.8 and 5.9 cover contested trials and continuances; Rules 5.10 and 5.11 address visitation by stepparents and grandparents; Rule 5.12 establishes the Family Law Facilitator; and Rule 5.13 concerns criminal protective orders. Outside Chapter 5, Rules 2.0 (papers), 2.1 (filing fees) and 9.0 (electronic filing and service) also reach a divorce filing.

Rule 5.7, Uncontested Trials, Documents Required, applies if the court determines that an uncontested matter is to be set for hearing. In that event the rule requires a Request to Enter Default, form FL-165, with a supporting declaration, or a written stipulation, together with a current Income and Expense Declaration and a current Property Declaration unless excused as the rule provides.

The judgment packet in Yuba County

Statewide rules frame every packet. California Rules of Court, rule 5.405 limits what the court may require to the Judgment Checklist, form FL-182, and the forms it lists; rule 5.411 governs a judgment based on the spouses' written agreement; and rule 5.415 calls for stamped envelopes, each addressed to one spouse, for the clerk's mailing of the Notice of Entry of Judgment, form FL-190. Family Code section 2336 and rule 5.409 permit a judgment on declarations without a hearing, and Family Code section 2105 allows both spouses to waive the final declaration of disclosure in writing.

In Yuba the packet goes to the Family Law Division at the counter or by mail, or, if you choose, through Odyssey eFileCA or File at Home. A paper packet carries a self-addressed, stamped envelope for the endorsed-filed copies, as Local Rule 2.0(A) requires, alongside the envelopes rule 5.415 calls for. Where your spouse signed the settlement agreement, filed no response and had a default entered, the agreement is part of the judgment with no fee, item 103 of the 2026 statewide schedule. If the court sets the matter for hearing, Rule 5.7 lists the papers to file.

Should the Family Law Division return the packet with something to correct, the first correction is part of the flat fee.

If a hearing is set: CourtCall and video appearances

If the court calendars a hearing, Local Rule 5.0(F), Remote Appearances (Family Law Matters), permits a remote appearance for law and motion matters through CourtCall, with arrangements made no later than noon on the Thursday of the week before the hearing. The same subdivision says that information regarding courtroom remote appearance login, at no cost, may be obtained by contacting Family Court Services, at 215 Fifth Street, Suite 318, (530) 740-1850. Long cause hearings and trials require a personal appearance unless the parties stipulate otherwise or the court grants a remote appearance under Code of Civil Procedure section 367.75 and California Rules of Court, rule 3.672.

A court notice on new requirements for remote appearances in civil cases tells anyone scheduled to appear in a civil matter who would like to appear by video on Zoom to complete the required forms, and the Local Forms page lists the Judicial Council's remote appearance forms, RA-010 through RA-035. No one from the office appears at any Yuba hearing.

The Self-Help Center and the Self-Help Attorney

The Yuba Self-Help Center is at the Yuba County Courthouse, 215 Fifth Street, Suite 318, Marysville, CA 95901, telephone (530) 740-1850. Its page lists office hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, and a computer lab open from 8:30 a.m. to noon and from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The court calls its facilitator the Self-Help Attorney/Family Law Facilitator. That page says the Self-Help Attorney/Family Law Facilitator can help you select the proper legal forms and provide instructions for completing, filing and serving the paperwork, and lists dissolution, legal separation, nullity, support, custody and starting or finishing a case among its subjects; it also makes clear that the facilitator is not your attorney. The facilitator page gives Suite 200 as the location while the Self-Help Center page and the court's October 2026 calendar give Suite 318; the pages differ, and this page follows the Self-Help Center page. For hours, the facilitator page refers to the facilitator's schedule, posted as a monthly Family Court Services and Self-Help calendar that lists workshops, among them a dissolution workshop and a default workshop, and that tells visitors to check for an updated schedule before coming in. Read the current calendar on the court's site for the days and times. Local Rule 5.12 states that, as required by the Family Law Facilitator Act, Family Code section 10000 and following, the court maintains an Office of the Family Law Facilitator.

Certain divorces fall outside the flat fee, in Yuba County and elsewhere: minor children or a pregnancy, spouses who have not yet agreed, a restraining order or any safety concern, a business or a professional practice, a pension that needs a qualified domestic relations order, real property outside California, a legal separation or an annulment, a spouse who cannot be located, and spouses who are not both proficient in English. The State Bar of California's Lawyer Referral Service directory, at calbar.ca.gov/Public/Need-Legal-Help/Lawyer-Referral-Service, lists the certified lawyer referral services for every county.

After the judgment, in Yuba County

Your marriage ends on the date the judgment states, under Family Code section 2340. Section 2339 does not allow that date to fall less than six months after the respondent spouse was served with the summons and petition or appeared in the case, whichever happened first, and the Judicial Council's form FL-107-INFO puts the soonest possible date at six months and one day. For a summary dissolution, section 2403 measures the six months from the filing of the joint petition. Neither e-filing nor an early packet moves that date forward.

Government Code section 70674(b) treats the marriage dissolution record as the judgment, and the Judicial Council's Statewide Civil Fee Schedule effective January 1, 2026 prices a certified copy at $15 under item 195 for an applicant other than a public agency, and $10 under item 194 for a public agency. The court's Dissolution and Divorce page says a copy of the judgment can be requested at the court in person or by mail sent to the Family Law Division.

Before any of it, Family Code section 2320 requires that you or your spouse have lived in California for six months and in Yuba County for three months when the petition is filed; the court's Dissolution and Divorce page states the rule as having lived in California for the last six months and for three months in the county. Any deed your agreement calls for is prepared and recorded by a title company or another attorney, because the office does not prepare or record deeds.

Rozsa Gyene, State Bar of California No. 208356, 3500 W. Olive Ave., Suite 300, Burbank, CA 91505.