Superior Court, Judicial District of Middlesex, Connecticut Document Format Requirements

CRITICAL

Format

PDF

Electronically submitted exhibit documents must be in PDF format.

Attorneys and law firms without an exemption from electronic services must submit electronically in PDF format all exhibit documents on paperless civil files for all hearings and trials, at least two business days prior to the start of evidence.

CRITICAL

Exhibits longer than five pages must be paginated at the bottom of each page.

Any exhibit over five (5) pages shall be paginated at the bottom of the page.

CRITICAL

Format

PDF

Parentage-support documentation must be scanned as a PDF and uploaded to E-services.

Any documentation in support of parentage shall be scanned in a PDF format and uploaded to E-services.

CRITICAL

Exhibits must be copied single-sided.

All exhibits shall be copied single sided.

CRITICAL

Format

PDF

Exhibit documents submitted electronically must be in PDF format.

Attorneys and law firms without an exemption from electronic services must submit electronically in PDF format all exhibit documents on paperless civil files for all hearings and trials, at least two business days prior to the start of evidence.

CRITICAL

Parentage documentation must be legible and show names and dates of birth.

Documentation shall be legible with names and dates of birth.

CRITICALCivil cases

Format

PDF

Exhibit documents submitted electronically for hearings and trials on paperless Civil matters must be in PDF format.

Attorneys and law firms without an exemption from electronic services must submit electronically in PDF format all exhibit documents on paperless Civil matters, for all hearings and trials.

WARNINGCivil cases

At the conference, the court determines whether any designated record contents should be transmitted in paper format because they are difficult to reproduce or review electronically.

At the conference, the court shall also determine which, if any, of the designated contents of the record shall be transmitted to the parties and/or the court in paper format because such papers are either difficult to reproduce electronically or difficult to review in electronic format.

WARNING

Exhibit lists must index plaintiff exhibits as P plus a number and defendant exhibits as D plus a letter.

A list of exhibits each party reasonably expects to introduce in evidence, indexed by P plus a number for the plaintiff, and D plus a letter for the defendant, with a brief description of each exhibit, indicating whether any party objects to the admission of the exhibit and if so, including a statement of the grounds for the objection if known.