Crawford County Courts, Indiana Filing Timing and Cure Windows

CRITICAL

Opposing counsel must promptly examine and sign the submitted entry and submit it to the Court within five days of receipt.

Opposing counsel shall promptly examine the entry when submitted, shall sign the entry, and shall submit the entry to the Court within five (5) days of receiving same.

CRITICAL

Deadline

10 working days

The filing attorney selects the ruling date, which must be at least ten working days after the application is filed.

The date set forth in the notice shall be selected by the attorney filing the application but shall not be less than ten (10) working days from the date of filing.

CRITICAL

Deadline

5 working days

When a change of venue delays a provisional ruling, a written request to treat a child-support application as an emergency may be filed within five working days after the adverse party’s change-of-venue motion; if the Court so finds, it retains jurisdiction and enters child-support findings.

In that a change of venue from the Judge and/or County results in a delay of the entry of a ruling in a provisional matter, an application for child support may be deemed to be in the nature of an emergency upon the filing of a written request for such determination within five (5) working days of the filing of the adverse party’s Motion for Change of Venue. Upon such finding by the Court, the Court shall retain jurisdiction in such instance and enter its findings on child support in accordance with this Local

CRITICAL

The Court cannot rule until ten days after service of summons; if service occurs after the selected ruling date, that date automatically extends to ten days after service, without notice to the adverse party.

The Court shall not enter a ruling on an application for provisional order until ten (10) days have passed from the date of service of summons. If service of summons occurs on a date beyond the selected ruling date, the ruling date shall be automatically extended to a day which is ten (10) days from the date of service of summons and notice of such extension upon the adverse party shall not be required.

CRITICAL

Deadline

5 working days

A response filed on or before the ruling date extends that date by five working days from the response filing, during which the applicant may file a reply.

If a response to an application for a provisional order is filed on or before the ruling date, the Court shall extend the ruling date by five (5) working days from the date of the filing of the response within which time the applicant may file a reply to the response.

CRITICAL

In dissolution proceedings, each party must prepare and exchange the Verified Financial Declaration Form within 45 days after the petition is filed.

In all dissolution proceedings, each party shall prepare and exchange respectively within forty-five (45) days of the filing of the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage, a Verified Financial Declaration Form as set forth in the Appendix to these rules.

CRITICAL

Deadline

10 working days

The other party must file a written objection within 10 working days to prevent the trial from being scheduled as an expedited hearing.

Unless the other party files, within ten (10) working days, a written objection to proceeding in expedited fashion, the Court will schedule the trial for an expedited hearing under the procedures outlined in Local Rule 12K.

CRITICAL

Proposed findings must be submitted within the time directed by the Court.

Such form of findings shall be submitted to the Court within such time as directed by the Court.

CRITICAL

Estates must be closed within one year unless good cause is shown.

All estates shall be closed within one (1) year unless for good cause shown.

WARNING

If the agreed entry is not prepared within fifteen working days of the Court’s request, opposing counsel may prepare and submit it with a letter describing efforts to obtain its preparation.

If an attorney agrees to prepare an entry and then fails to do so within fifteen (15) working days of the Court’s request, opposing counsel may prepare the entry and submit same to the Court advising the Court by letter of the efforts made to gain preparation of the entry.

WARNING

If good cause is not shown, the Court may order an intermediate accounting within 30 days after the estate has been open for one year.

The Court may order an intermediate accounting within thirty (30) days of the expiration of one (1) year of the opening of the estate if good cause is not shown.

WARNING

An unsupervised estate becomes supervised if it is not closed within one year, unless good cause is shown under paragraph A.

Unsupervised estates shall become supervised estates if not closed within one (1) year unless good cause shown in accordance with paragraph A herein.

WARNING

An attorney with a primary trial assignment may file a Certificate of Readiness 10 days before the scheduled trial date; failure to file may forfeit the primary date if a secondary-assigned attorney files one, in which case the secondary case will be heard.

F. TRIAL ASSIGNMENTS. The Court may assign a case for trial by jury on a primary or secondary basis. Ten (10) days prior to the schedule trial date, an attorney whose case has been assigned for trial on a primary basis may file a Certificate of Readiness indicating the intention of proceeding to trial as scheduled. The failure to file such Certificate may result in forfeiture of the primary trial date if an attorney whose case has been assigned on a secondary basis files such Certificate and in such event the case assigned on a secondary basis shall be heard.