Kosciusko County Courts, Indiana Service and Proof of Service Rules

CRITICAL

A party offering biologically contaminated evidence must serve all parties with the pretrial notice in time for the court to rule before trial.

A party who offers biologically contaminated evidence must file a pretrial notice with the trial court and serve all the parties so that the court may consider the issue and rule appropriately before trial.

CRITICAL

Applies to

Juror qualification form and notice

Service

Mail

The jury administrator must mail each selected person a qualification form and service-period notice within seven days of the drawing; if those are sent first, the summons must follow at least one week before service.

A. Not later than seven (7) days after the date of the drawing of names from the jury pool, the jury administrator shall mail to each person whose name is drawn a juror qualification form, and notice of the period during which any service may be performed. The jury administrator may send summons at a later time. If the jury administrator sends the jury qualification form and notice first, the jury administrator shall summon prospective jurors at least one (1) week before service.

WARNING

Service

Mail

The court must send actual notice by mail, including email, warning attorneys of record and unrepresented parties that evidence will be destroyed on a stated date if not retrieved.

In all cases, the court shall provide actual notice, by mail (including e-mail), to all attorneys of record and to parties only if unrepresented by counsel, that the evidence will be destroyed by a date certain if not retrieved before that date.