Legal Question in Business Law in California

Re: Have California court forms changed recently?

Go to http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/forms/, click on the drop-down box and select "Pleading - Personal Injuy, Property Damage, Wrongful Death." All of the Judicial Council Complaint forms specifically relating to causes of action sounding in tort are listed there.

Re: Have California court forms changed recently?

The fact that you are having problems even finding the correct form suggests that you lack the knowledge and skills necessary to prevail in a lawsuit without the assistance of an attorney.

Re: Have California court forms changed recently?

The 982 numbered series are motly if not entirely renumbered, or maybe one should say relettered. They are in the PLD-PI series, which I guess means Pleading-Personal Injury, but the forms in that series go well beyond personal injury alone, and include negligence, intentional tort, automobile, etc.

Along with the relettering, changes were made and new forms developed that may make unreliable any "do it yourself" info you're getting from an old self-help law book. Better get a new set of instructions, or even better, a lawyer.