Wyandot County Court of Common Pleas Filing Rules

Electronically submitted documents requiring an attorney’s or submitter’s signature must use the specified conformed signature, except for hand-signed documents scanned in PDF format.

An Entry Setting Hearing must be provided to the Court with directions for the Clerk to serve the next of kin and their names and complete addresses.

The Clerk of Courts must notify all counsel of record of the appraisal by providing a photocopy within twenty-four hours after receiving it.

For a further extension hearing, notice must be served by regular U.S. mail on the ward's next of kin residing in Ohio at least seven days before the hearing.

Documents may be submitted to the Clerk for e-filing at any time, including 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

A report of sale cannot be confirmed and distribution cannot be ordered until one week from the Monday after the report is filed, unless all interested parties consent.

The listed filings are not accepted through e-filing at this time.

The scheduling order may be changed only by order of the Court.

The Court will grant one 30-day extension of an emergency guardianship upon good cause, if the request is submitted before the original 72-hour guardianship expires.

Documents submitted for filing must be in PDF form.

Forms filed in Probate Court must be tumble-style; nonconforming forms photostated by counsel will be returned unfiled.

The Clerk charges .10 cents per page for producing paper service copies of initial pleadings, and the charge is assessed as costs.

Pursuant to RC 21 1 1.031, the Court may require an Applicant for a guardianship to make ·an advanced cost deposit in an amount the Court determines necessary (a) to defray the anticipated costs of examinations of an alleged incompetent, and (b) to cover the fees and costs to be incmed to assist the Court in deciding whether a guardianship is necessary.

The Clerk will notify the attorney by phone if a faxed document cannot be filed.

A fax transmission is limited to ten pages and one case; a longer transmission requires prior Court approval for good cause.

Do not deliver paper courtesy copies of electronically filed documents unless applicable rules require them or the Court requests them.

Confidential information must be blacked out on photocopies submitted to the Court when filing.