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

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Pleadings and motions must be legibly typewritten or printed on letter-size paper and securely bound at the top.

All pleadings and motions shall be legibly typewritten or printed on paper of letter size (approximately 8-1/2 x 11), securely bound at the top.

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Format

PDF

Pleadings and motions must be submitted as searchable PDFs.

A. All pleadings and motions must be submitted in a searchable portable document format (PDF);

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Pleadings must be black and white; color pleadings or documents will not be accepted.

B. All pleadings must be black and white only. No color pleadings or documents will be accepted;

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Digital pleadings and motions must fit letter-size paper.

C. All pleadings and motions, in their digital form, must be sized to fit letter-size (8 112 x 11) paper;

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Pleadings and motions may not exceed 20 MB; an oversized submission must be divided into several compliant submissions.

D. Pleadings and motions must not exceed twenty megabytes (20 MB). If a submission exceeds this requ irement, it must be condensed into several compliant submissions within th is data restriction;

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Images must have a resolution of at least 200 DPI.

E. Image resolution must be at least 200 dots per inch (DPI);

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Pleadings may not contain links to other material.

F. Pleadings may NOT contain links to other material;

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Margins

top 1 in, bottom 1 in, left 1 in, right 1 in

Pleadings must have one-inch margins on all sides.

I. Pleadings must have a 1 inch ma rgin on all sides;

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Pleadings must comply with local rules governing the substance and format of paper pleadings, unless this document provides otherwise.

J. Pleadings must comply with the local rules governing paper pleadings for substance and format unless otherwise indicated herein .

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Format

DOCX

Proposed orders must use the editable .docx template provided in the e-services system; orders that do not use it may be rejected or refused.

All proposed orders MUST use the Proposed Order Template (.docx) provided in the e-services system and must be capable of editing in Microsoft Word. This template includes the appropriate signature tokens and formatting for the judicial authority . Proposed orders that do not use the template will be rejected upon Clerk Review and/or refused by the Court.

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Registered Users must preserve the judge-signature token and remove listed internal identifiers and document elements from proposed orders; they may not add anything additional.

Registered Users shall NOT remove, replace, or otherwise alter the provided signature token which appears as <{Judge Signature}> on the template. Registered User's shall remove all company identifiers or other internal tracking system, bar codes, embedded text boxes, macros, dates and shall not add any additional

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Format

DOCX

The proposed order for a temporary restraining order request must use the provided DOCX template.

The filer must still file a Proposed Order for the request for temporary restraining order utilizing the PROPOSED ORDER TEMPLATE (.docx) provided in thee-services platform.

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Users must not alter the judge-signature token in the proposed order template.

USERS SHALL NOT ALTER THE SIGNATURE TOKEN FOR THE JUDGE’S SIGNATURE IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER.

Checked and corrected to match the court's document on Oct 10, 2026CRITICAL

Format

PDF

All documents must be filed in PDF format.

All documents must be filed in PDF format.

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A motion’s proposed order must use the provided template, with case information inserted in the caption and the proposed-order body pasted into it.

USING THE PROVIDED PROPOSED ORDER TEMPLATE titled “PROPOSEDORDERTEMPLATE.docx”. Users will need to insert the case information in the caption as well as paste the body of their proposed order.

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Format

PDF

All uploaded documents other than proposed orders must be in PDF format.

*ALL DOCUMENTS EXCEPT PROPOSED ORDERS MUST BE PDF

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Format

DOCX

Proposed orders accompanying motions must use the PROPOSEDORDERTEMPLATE.docx template.

*Please note that ALL motions MUST include a Proposed Order using the “PROPOSEDORDERTEMPLATE.docx”

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Registered Users must not include pictures or objects in proposed orders.

Registered User's shall not include any pictures or objects in the proposed order as these graphics interfere with the ability to sign and process the proposed orders by the judicial authority.

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F filers are asked to use the simplest forms of identifying information, without punctuation and with two-letter abbreviations when appropriate.

*PLEASE USE ONLY SIMPLEST FORMS FOR IDENTIFYING INFORMATION (i.e. no punctuation needed and use 2 letter abbreviations when proper)

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*MUST USE ALL CAPITAL LETTERS