The Law Librarians have created these research guides as an aid for those starting a legal research project. These guides recommend print and electronic resources that will help you find answers to your law-related questions.
Guides marked "Step-by-Step" 
provide step-by-step information, as well as sample forms, for common legal procedures. These guides are intended for general information only. Your situation may involve factors requiring different procedures or forms. You may need to consult with an attorney, or visit the law library to conduct legal research, to determine if the procedures described in these guides are applicable to your situation.
Also see our "Shelf Help: Websites to Bookmark" page, collecting websites on various topics not included here.
- Abstract of Judgment (Step by Step)
- Adult Adoption (Step by Step)
- Affidavit for Collection of Personal Property (Step by Step)
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Attorney Locators
- Attorney's Compliance Statement (Step by Step)
- Bank Levy, Ask the Court to Stop or Reduce a (Step by Step)
- Bankruptcy
- Blocked Account, Withdrawing Funds from (Step by Step)
- Business Records Subpoena (Step by Step)
- CA Legislative Analysis
- Case Management Statement (Step by Step)
- Child Support
- Civil Appeal, How to Start
- Civil Rights Litigation: Section 1983
- Claim Opposing Forfeiture (Step by Step)
- Conservatorship
- Consumer Law
- Continue Trial, Motion to (Step by Step)
- Creating Pleadings
- Criminal Law
- Custody and Visitation
- Decedents' Estates
- Deeds
- Deed of Trust (Step by Step)
- Default Judgment, How to Request from the Clerk (Step by Step)
- Default Judgment, How to Request from the Court (Step by Step)
- Delayed Certificate of Marriage (Step by Step)
- Disqualifying Judges (Peremptory Challenges) (Step by Step)
- Divorce, Legal Separation and Annulment
- DMV, Getting an Injuction Against (Step by Step)
- Education Law
- Elder Law
- Employment Discrimination
- Enforcement of Judgments, Exemption From
- Evictions
- Expert Witnesses
- Expunging Criminal Records (Step by Step)
- Fee Waivers (Step by Step)
- Filing a Lawsuit
- Finding People and Businesses
- Foreclosure
- Government and Police Claims Forms
- Grandparent Visitation
- Guardianship
- Homesteads (Step by Step)
- Immigration Law
- Jury Instructions
- Legal Referrals
- Living Wills, Durable Powers of Attorney, Advance Health Care Directives
- Mechanics' Liens
- Notice of Automatic Stay Due to Bankruptcy, How to File in Civil Court (Step by Step)
- Parentage
- Pay Judgment in Installments, Motion to (Step by Step)
- Personal Service of Court Documents (Step by Step)
- Petition to Release Mechanics Lien (Step by Step)
- Power of Attorney
- Practice Guides
- Probation, Motion to Terminate (Step by Step)
- Proof of Service by Mail (Step by Step)
- Publication of Summons (Step by Step)
- Reading Citations
- Recorded Documents
- Relief from Default
- Responding to a Lawsuit
- Shepard's, Updating Cases With
- Small Estate Affidavit (Step by Step)
- Stepparent Adoption (Step by Step)
- Tax Law, California
- Tax Law, Federal
- Tentative Ruling System
- Termination of Parental Rights
- Traffic Law
- Unemployment Insurance
- Verdicts & Settlements
- Wage Garnishment, Stop or Reduce (Step by Step)
- West Digest, Locating Cases With
- Wills, Trusts and Estate Planning
- Workers' Compensation
- Workplace Violence Restraining Order (Step by Step)
- Writ of Administrative Mandate