Vanderburgh County Courts, Indiana Adjournment & Extension Requirements

CRITICAL

A Personal Representative who cannot meet the Final Account deadline must show good cause for an extension.

If you cannot meet this deadline, you must show good cause for an extension.

CRITICAL

A case may not be continued without a future date.

(F) All Cases to Have Future Date. No cases will be continued without date.

CRITICAL

Except for a continuance motion made during trial, a final-hearing continuance motion must be written, state its grounds with particularity, be verified, and be served on opposing counsel.

Motions for Continuances of a final hearing, unless made during trial, shall be in writing, shall state with particularity the grounds, and shall be verified, with copies of such request served upon opposing counsel.

CRITICAL

A case may not be continued without a date.

No cases will be continued without date.

CRITICAL

A Proceedings Supplemental hearing may not be continued for progress after an order of garnishment or personal order of garnishment has been obtained.

Proceedings Supplemental hearings shall not be continued for progress after an order of garnishment or a personal order of garnishment has been obtained.

CRITICAL

A Proceedings Supplemental hearing may not be continued for progress after an order of garnishment or personal order of garnishment has been obtained.

(E) Proceedings Supplemental - Hearings. Proceedings Supplemental hearings shall not be continued for progress after an order of garnishment or a personal order of garnishment has been obtained.

CRITICAL

In civil cases, a party responding to a complaint, counterclaim, or cross-claim may obtain an automatic 30-day extension by filing and serving a Notice of Extension; further extensions require a motion and hearing unless the parties agree.

(B) Extensions. In all civil cases, each party required to respond to a complaint, counterclaim, or cross-claim, may obtain an automatic thirty (30) day extension of time to plead or otherwise respond to such claim by filing a Notice of Extension with the Court and serving a copy of the same upon all parties. Requests for additional extensions of time must be made by motion and hearing unless agreed to by the parties.

WARNING

Parties must ensure a hearing has adequate scheduled time; if they cannot finish within that time, the matter will be continued and reset in the usual manner.

Hearings will be limited to the time scheduled on the calendar and it shall be the responsibility of the parties to ensure adequate time for completion of a hearing. Should the parties be unable to complete the presentation within that time, the matter will be continued and reset on the calendar in the usual manner.

WARNING

Where the Indiana Rules of Trial Procedure allow it, the Court may extend time limits in the local rules by order.

(A) Standard Time Limits Apply. The time limits set out in these local rules, where allowable under the Indiana Rules of Trial Procedure, may be extended by order of the Court.

WARNING

A petitioning party may continue an interlocutory or post-decree matter without argument or stipulation only if no attorney has appeared for the nonmoving party.

Interlocutory or post decree matters may be continued by the petitioning party, without argument or stipulation, only on the condition that no attorney has appeared of record for the nonmoving party.

WARNING

The initial hearing may be continued for up to twenty days to allow the defendant to obtain private counsel.

The initial hearing may be continued for a period of time not to exceed twenty days to allow the defendant to obtain private counsel.

WARNING

Dates in the scheduling order may be amended by the Court on its own motion or at a party’s request.

The dates contained in the Court’s Scheduling Order may be amended by the Court on its own motion or at the request of one or more of the parties.