Circuit Court of Washington County, Illinois (24th Judicial Circuit) Adjournment & Extension Requirements

CRITICAL

If the other party has not responded to a continuance motion, the movant must state the methods used to try to contact that party.

If the other party has not responded, then the movant shall set forth the methods in which they have tried to contact the other party.

CRITICAL

A request to extend the accounting deadline or permit less frequent accounting must be in writing, state the reasons, and show good cause.

Requests for an extension of time to a definite date or for an order allowing the accounting in a particular estate less frequently than above provided shall be made by written request of the personal representative, or his or her attorney, specifying the reasons for the request. On a showing of good cause,

CRITICAL

Mediation must be completed within seven weeks of the first conference unless the court orders or the parties stipulate to an extension.

Mediation shall be completed within seven (7) weeks of the first mediation conference unless extended by the order of the court or by stipulation of the parties.

CRITICAL

A request to continue a remote hearing to another date or to obtain an in-person appearance must be made by a timely filed, properly noticed motion to continue.

Requests for a continuance to another date or for an in-person appearance at the appropriate physical courtroom shall be made by a timely filed and properly noticed motion to continue.

WARNING

The presiding or assigned judge may continue a remote hearing to another time or place for good cause, including listed conditions that disrupt the hearing or impair a party’s fair-hearing rights.

The presiding judge or the judge specifically assigned to a case shall retain the right at all times to continue a remote hearing to a different time or place, including a physical courtroom, for good cause, including but not limited to an unmanageable number of participants in the hearing, poor connections or other conditions that interfere with the ability of the court to conduct the remote hearing, or any other condition that unduly interferes with the rights of a party to a fair hearing.

WARNING

The mediator may adjourn at any time and set a reconvening time; parties present at the adjourned conference need no further notification.

The mediator may adjourn the mediation conference at any time and may set times for reconvening the adjourned conference. No further notification is required for parties present at the adjourned conference.

WARNING

An attorney's or party's poor video connection alone is not grounds to continue a remote hearing.

A poor video connection for an attorney or party alone is not grounds to continue a remote hearing.

WARNING

Mediation continues while an interim or emergency relief motion is pending unless the court orders otherwise or the mediator decides to adjourn it.

Mediation shall continue while such a motion is pending absent a contrary order of the court or a decision of the mediator to adjourn pending disposition of the motion.