Tazewell County Circuit Court, Virginia Filing Timing and Cure Windows

WARNING

Deed recordings stop at 3:45 p.m.

Deed recordings stop at 3:45 p.m.

WARNING

A pleading without a docket number is still deemed filed, although the clerk will notify counsel of the omission and/or provide it to the Judge’s Office for review.

Pleadings not containing docket numbers shall be deemed filed but the clerk shall notify counsel of the omission and/or provided to the Judge’s Office for review.

CRITICAL

Proposed instructions for a civil jury trial must be submitted two days before the trial date, unless the Court waives compliance.

Counsel for all parties, unless compliance is waived by the Court, shall, two days before a civil jury trial date, submit to the Court a copy of all instructions such counsel proposes to request, noting thereon the authority or authorities upon which he relies for such instructions.

CRITICAL

All submissions must be filed no later than 30 days after the case concludes.

Further, all submissions MUST be electronically filed no later than thirty (30) days after the conclusion of the case.

CRITICAL

Deadline

5 business days

a. Plea agreements are requested to be presented in criminal matters and are to be filed with the Circuit Court Clerk a minimum of five (5) business days prior to trial.

a. Plea agreements are requested to be presented in criminal matters and are to be filed with the Circuit Court Clerk a minimum of five (5) business days prior to trial.

CRITICAL

Appointed-counsel fee and expense requests or claims must be submitted promptly.

In criminal and civil cases, including habeas corpus ad subjiciendum cases, requests or claims for fee of court appointed counsel and for necessary expenses incurred therein shall be submitted promptly and include or have attached thereto a brief itemization of the hours expended, the nature of the work done by counsel and of the expenses incurred in such case, a statement of the offenses or matters involved, and if not a Commonwealth criminal case, the name of the prosecuting entity liable for counsel fee and such expenses.