Ross County Court of Common Pleas, General Division Filing Timing and Cure Windows

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An accepted fax filing is deemed filed when the Clerk time-stamps receipt, not when the fax was transmitted.

Subject to the provisions of these rules, all documents sent by fax and accepted by the Clerk shall be considered filed with the Clerk of Courts as of the date and time the Clerk time-stamps the document received, as opposed to the date and time of the fax transmission.

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The parenting coordinator must immediately file the decision with the Court.

The decision shall be immediately filed with the Court

WARNING

The Clerk may acknowledge receipt of a facsimile transmission but is not required to do so.

12. The Clerk of Court may, but need not, acknowledge receipt of a facsimile transmission.

WARNING

The sender bears all risks of fax filing and is urged to verify that the Clerk received the filing.

The risks of transmitting a document by fax to the Clerk of Courts shall be borne entirely by the sending party. Anyone using facsimile filing is urged to verify receipt of such filing by the Clerk of Court through whatever technological means are available.

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Deadline

5 court days

Unless the court orders otherwise, a missing exhibit must be filed separately within five court days after the faxed document, or the court may strike the document or exhibit.

Unless the court otherwise orders, the missing exhibit shall be filed with the court, as a separate document, not later than 5 (five) court days following the filing of the facsimile document. Failure to file the missing exhibits as required by this paragraph may result in the court striking the document and/or exhibit.

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If no law or other rule sets the filing time, a pleading or amended pleading must be filed within 14 days after the entry requiring or granting leave, unless the entry specifies otherwise.

In all cases where the time for filing of pleadings or amended pleadings is not fixed by law or another rule, the pleading or amended pleading shall be filed on or before the fourteenth (14th) day after the date of entry requiring or granting leave for the filing of such pleading or amended pleading unless otherwise specified in the Entry.

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The opposing party must move or plead within 14 days after the pleading or amended pleading is filed.

The opposing party shall move or plead to the pleadings or amended pleadings so filed on or before the fourteenth (14th) day after such pleadings or amended pleading is filed.

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When an agency demand or request is a prerequisite to preparing or filing the record transcript, the appellant must file it with the agency when filing the notice of appeal, unless a Supreme Court rule or law provides otherwise.

17.03 In all cases in which demand or request to the agency by the appellant is a prerequisite to the preparation or the filing of the transcript of the record by the agency, such demand or request shall be filed by the appellant with the agency at the time of filing the notice of appeal, unless otherwise provided by Rule of the Supreme Court or by law.

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Each party must serve opposing counsel and file a pre-trial statement with the Clerk at least ten days before the conference.

It is the Order of the Court that each of the parties herein serve upon opposing counsel and file with the Clerk of Courts not less than ten (10) days prior to pre-trial conference a pre-trial statement containing all the following information:

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The responding party must submit a completed worksheet with its child-support calculation within 14 days after service of the original pleading or motion.

The responding party shall submit to the Court, within fourteen (14) days of the service of the original pleading or motion, a completed worksheet with the responding party’s calculation of child support under the Guidelines.

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A party may file written objections to a parenting coordinator's decision with the Court and serve all other parties to the action within fourteen days of the filing date of the decision.

A party may file written objections to a parenting coordinator's decision with the Court and serve all other parties to the action within fourteen days of the filing date of the decision.

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If any party timely files objections, any other party may also file objections with the Court and serve all other parties to the action, not later than ten days after the first objections are filed.

If any party timely files objections, any other party may also file objections with the Court and serve all other parties to the action, not later than ten days after the first objections are filed.

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A party may submit a complaint regarding the parenting coordinator to the Court Administrator within one year after the appointment ends.

c. A party to a case appointed to parenting coordination may file a complaint regarding the parenting coordinator within one year from the termination of the appointment. The complaint shall be submitted to the Court Administrator, and include all of the following:

WARNING

The opposing party may file counter affidavits within 14 days after service of the complaint, answer, counter-claim, or motion.

Counter affidavits may be filed by the opposing party within fourteen (14) days from the service of the complaint, answer, counter-claim or motion, and all affidavits shall be used by the Court or Magistrate, together with the divorce investigator’s report, in making a temporary spousal support, allocation of parental rights and responsibilities, support and care order;