Owen County Courts, Indiana Service and Proof of Service Rules

Applies to

Notice of claim

The Notice of Claim may be delivered by certified mail or by the sheriff.

You must pay the cost of filing the suit regardless of whether you choose to have the Notice of Claim delivered by certified mail, or to have the sheriff deliver it to the Defendant.

A party offering biologically contaminated evidence must serve all parties with the pretrial notice 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.

Applies to

Notice of suit

The named defendant must be served with notice of the suit at least 10 days before the parties’ court appearance.

Notice of the suit must be served upon the named Defendant at least ten (10) days before the parties are to appear in court.

Service

Mail

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

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.

Applies to

Continuance request

Service

Mail to opposing party

A copy of every continuance request must be mailed to the other party.

A continuance must be requested in writing by sending the request to the Court and mailing a copy of the request for continuance to the other party.

The court must provide the parties a copy of an order or the entire CCS at or before judicial notice is taken.

(a) a court order, the court shall provide a copy of that court order; or (b) a CCS or CCS entry(s), the court shall provide a copy of the entire CCS. The court shall provide copies of the order or CCS to the parties to the case at or before the time judicial notice is taken.

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.

Applies to

Counterclaim

Service

Mail to opposing party

The Court mails the counterclaim to the Plaintiff, who must receive it at least seven days before trial.

You must file your counterclaim with the Court so that the Court will be able to maila copy to the Plaintiff in time for the Plaintiff to receive it at least seven (7) days before the trial.