Fountain County Courts, Indiana Document Format Requirements

CRITICAL

Accountings must follow the prescribed statutory format; informal handwritten or transactional accounts will not be accepted.

All accountings shall follow the proscribed statutory format; informal handwritten or transactional accounts will not be accepted.

CRITICAL

A bond posted under subsection (d)(4) must use the Court-supplied form, completed in its entirety.

(e) If an accused posts bond per (d) (4), the same shall be made on a form supplied by the Court, which form shall be completed in its entirety.

CRITICAL

Duplicated forms containing interrogatories may not be filed or served unless the interrogatories are consecutively numbered and applicable to the case.

(f) No mimeographed or otherwise duplicated forms containing interrogatories shall be filed or served upon a party unless all interrogatories on such forms are consecutively numbered and applicable to the case in which they are served.

CRITICAL

Papers filed with the Court must be 8” X 11”, flat, and unfolded; oversized originals may be included but must be reduced where possible, originals must use rag bond paper, typewritten pages must have no covers or backs and be fastened only at the top, and pleadings must be typewritten on unlined paper with one-and-one-half spacing and double spacing between paragraphs.

(b) The files of the Clerk shall be kept under the system commonly known as “flat filing”, and all papers presented to the Court for filing shall be 8” X 11”, flat and unfolded. Original oversized documents may be filed as part of a pleading, but shall be reduced to 8” X 11” where possible. Original documents shall be submitted on rag bond paper. Typewritten pages shall have no covers or backs and shall be fastened together at the top, but at no other place. All pleadings shall be typewritten on unlined paper, one and one-half spaced with double spacing between paragraphs.

WARNING

A Closing Statement in an unsupervised estate must use a form substantially similar to the form in the rules’ appendix.

(f) In all unsupervised estates, the Closing Statement shall include a certification as to Notices, the release of payment of claims, the payment of death taxes and expenses of administration, a report of distribution and accounting, and a report as to any deeds executed by the personal representative and shall be on a form substantially similar to the one attached in the appendix to these rules.

WARNING

The notice to interested persons in an unsupervised estate must use a form substantially similar to the one in the rules’ appendix.

(g) In all unsupervised estates immediately upon the execution of letters of administration, the personal representative shall provide a notice to all interested persons of their rights relating to an unsupervised estate as provided by the Indiana Probate Code, and shall file with the Clerk a proof of service of such notice, which notice shall be substantially similar to the one attached in the appendix to these rules.(See Appendix c)

WARNING

Rubber stamp and facsimile signatures on original pleadings are not acceptable unless the Court grants leave.

A rubber stamp or facsimile signature on the original of any pleading shall not be acceptable except with leave of Court.