Henry County Court of Common Pleas, General Division Document Format Requirements

CRITICAL

Documents and exhibits must be marked for identification.

All documents and exhibits must be marked for identification purposes

CRITICAL

Use Arabic numerals for plaintiffs’ exhibits, letters for defendants’ exhibits, and Roman numerals for stipulated joint exhibits.

Plaintiffs exhibits are to be marked with Arabic numerals; Defendant’s exhibits to be marked with letters; and stipulated joint exhibits to be marked with Roman numerals.

CRITICAL

Exhibit stickers must include the case number and date; for a trial held on consecutive days, the first trial date may be used.

Exhibit stickers shall also be marked with the case number and the date (if a trial is to be conducted over a period of consecutive days it may be dated with the first date of trial).

CRITICAL

The required language in an ex parte order must be printed in bold.

All ex parte orders shall advise the opposing party of the right to request a hearing and shall contain the following language in bold print:

CRITICAL

The NOTICE cover sheet must print the required language in bold, 22-point font or larger.

The requirement that the Guardian ad Litem, when providing the report to unrepresented parties and legal counsel of record attach a cover sheet entitled NOTICE which sets out the language required above in subparagraph 2 in bold print in 22-point font or larger.

CRITICAL

The prescribed notice to the Plan Administrator must appear in bold print after the QDRO’s last page.

Following the last page of the QDRO, Counsel or self-represented party shall include the following NOTICE in BOLD print requiring the Plan Administrator to file a notice that the Qualified Domestic Relations Order has been qualified with the Clerk of Courts. NOTICE TO PLAN ADMINISTRATOR THIS QUALIFIED DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDER HAS BEEN SERVED UPON YOU. PLEASE PROVIDE WRITTEN VERIFICATION OF ITS QUALIFICATION TO (choose correct jurisdiction): Defiance County Clerk of Courts Fulton County Clerk of Courts 221 Clinton 210 S Fulton St #102 Defiance OH 43512 Wauseon OH 43567 Case Number: Case Number: Henry County Clerk of Courts Williams County Clerk of Courts 660 North Perry Suite 302 One Courthouse Square, 3rd Floor PO Box 71 Bryan OH 43506 Napoleon OH 43545 Case Number: Case Number:

CRITICAL

The fee application, motion, and judgment entry must be submitted to the Clerk of Courts in triplicate, each bearing an original signature.

Said application, motion, and judgment entry shall be submitted to the Clerk of Courts in triplicate with each bearing original signatures.

CRITICAL

The NOTICE cover sheet must present the required language in bold print using at least 22-point font.

In addition, the Guardian ad Litem, when providing the report to unrepresented parties and legal counsel of record shall attach a cover sheet entitled NOTICE which sets out the language required above in bold print in 22-point font or larger.

WARNING

Applies to

Pleading motion application judgment or order

Unless a judge directs otherwise, covered filings must be on white letter-size paper, legible, securely fastened, and page-numbered if they contain more than one sheet.

In addition to the requirements of Civ. R. 10, all papers filed with the Clerk as pleadings, motions, applications, judgments and orders shall be on 8½ by 11 inch white paper, typewritten, or printed in a neat and legible manner, securely fastened together and page numbered if consisting of more than a single sheet.

WARNING

Applies to

Paper filing

Unless a judge directs otherwise, filings must leave at least 2½ inches at the top of the first page and at least a 1-inch top margin on later pages.

All papers shall have a blank space of at least two and one-half (2½) inches at the top of the first page for file marks by the Clerk. All subsequent pages shall have a top margin of not less than one (1) inch.

INFO

Counsel may highlight on all copies the material they want the Court to review.

counsel may highlight on all copies what they want the Court to review.