Beaverhead County District Court, Montana Service and Proof of Service Rules

CRITICAL

Applies to

Notice of termination

The attorney must serve the notice of termination on the client and opposing party.

5.2 After the final disposition of a case and after the time for appeal has expired, an attorney is relieved of the attorney’s duties as counsel of record, provided the attorney first files a notice of termination with the Clerk of Court and serves the notice on their client and the opposing party.

CRITICAL

Absent leave of Court, a party must make the required disclosure before seeking discovery and serve it on another party before seeking discovery from that party; written discovery requests may be served simultaneously with the disclosure.

Except with leave of the Court, a party may not seek discovery from any source before making an appropriate pre-discovery disclosure and may not seek discovery from another party before serving that party with an appropriate disclosure. A party may serve written discovery requests upon a party simultaneously with service of the required disclosure statement upon that party.

CRITICAL

Each party must serve an appropriate disclosure within 30 days after entry of the case scheduling order.

Each party shall serve an appropriate disclosure not later than 30 days after entry of the case scheduling order.

CRITICAL

Documents offered for filing must be accompanied by documentation demonstrating service, except complaints.

Proper documentation demonstrating service must accompany all documents offered for filing other than a complaint.

WARNING

The Clerk may email court orders and minute entries instead of sending hard copies, and parties must provide the Clerk with the email addresses for those copies.

To promote the electronic storage and exchange of documents and reduce redundant scanning of documents produced by the Court, the Clerk of Court may distribute copies of Court orders and minute entries by email rather than by hard copy. A party shall provide the Clerk of Court with the email address(es) to which copies of orders or minute entries are to be mailed.

WARNING

A party that files any document electronically is deemed to have consented in writing to receive documents electronically.

A party who has filed any document in the Court electronically is deemed to have provided written consent to receive documents electronically. (Rule 5(b)(2)(E), M. R. Civ. P.)