Musselshell County District Court, Montana Filing Timing and Cure Windows

A telefaxed or electronically transmitted document is filed when the Clerk of Court receives it.

The date and time of the Clerk of Court’s receipt of the telefax and rescheduling. or electronically transmitted document shall be the date and time of filing.

If the Clerk does not timely receive the signed original, the Court may strike the telefaxed or electronically submitted document, which then has no force or effect.

Failure of the clerk to receive the signed original document in a timely fashion will be cause for an order to strike the telefaxed or electronically submitted document and thereupon, it shall have no force or effect whatsoever.

Parties must provide requested status reports in writing within 20 days of the request.

Periodically, the Court will review the status of civil cases and request status reports. Parties are to comply with such request within twenty (20) days in writing.

Settlement documents must be prepared and filed within 30 days.

Within thirty (30) days, settlement documents must be prepared and filed.

Unless effectively waived by the defendant, the PSI must be completed and filed no later than 10 days before sentencing.

Unless effectively waived by a defendant, a PSI shall be completed and filed with the Court no later than ten (10) days prior to sentencing.