LaPorte County Courts, Indiana Service and Proof of Service Rules

Applies to

Verified motion for restricted parenting time

The restricted-parenting-time motion must be served at the time it is filed on opposing counsel or, if the parent is unrepresented, on that parent.

At least twenty-one (21) days prior to any hearing in which a party intends to seek restricted parenting time [less than Parenting Time Guidelines] or supervised parenting time, that party shall file, and contemporaneously serve upon opposing counsel or on subject parent, if that parent is not represented by counsel, a verified motion for restricted parenting time which sets forth the factual basis upon which the request is predicated.

The movant must send the prescribed summary judgment notice to the opposing party with the motion.

the movant shall send the opposing party the Notice Regarding Summary Judgment Motion as set forth in Appendix C below with the Motion for Summary Judgment.

Discovery requests must be served on the parties.

As envisioned by the Trial Rules, requests for discovery shall be served upon the parties

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 can consider the issue and rule appropriately 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 can consider the issue and rule appropriately before trial.

A response or hearing request must be served or mailed to the opposing party’s attorney.

Any response or request for hearing must be served (or mailed) on the attorney for the opposing party.

Counsel and parties must keep the court informed of their current addresses, and notice to the last current address is sufficient.

Counsel and parties have the duty to keep the court informed of their current addresses and notice to the last current address shall be sufficient.

In covered divorce or paternity cases, each parent must provide the other party a copy of the applicable worksheet within 45 days after the dissolution petition is filed.

In any cause of action for dissolution of marriage (divorce) or paternity involving a minor child or children under the age of sixteen (16) years, both parents shall complete the worksheet at www.UpToParents.org for divorce matters and www.proudtoparent.org for paternity matters print and save a copy of their work, and provide a copy of their work to the other party within forty-five (45) days of the date the petition for dissolution of marriage is filed.

Service

Mail

The court must mail notice of the evidence-destruction date to attorneys of record and to parties who are unrepresented.

In all cases, the court shall provide actual notice, by 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.