§ 2033.740.Optional use of forms; availability; governing rules

Having assigned the Judicial Council the job of creating official forms and consulting an advisory committee on their content, this section addresses how those forms reach practicing attorneys and self-represented parties. First, using the official forms is optional. A party remains free to draft custom interrogatories or requests for admission instead, subject to the ordinary limits that apply to each; the official forms are a convenience, not a mandate.

Second, the forms have to be made available through the clerk's office of the appropriate trial court, so anyone appearing in a case, represented or not, can obtain a copy without tracking one down elsewhere. Third, the Judicial Council is directed to promulgate whatever rules are necessary to govern how the forms are used, filling in procedural details the statute itself does not spell out.