Adams County Superior Court Document Format Requirements

Complaints must be written and submitted to the Superior Court Judge.

All complaints must be in writing and must be submitted to the Superior Court Judge.

Filed pleadings, motions, and other papers must be legible, letter-size, printed on one side, double-spaced, and meet the stated first-page and subsequent-page margin requirements.

All pleadings, motions, and other papers filed with the court shall be legibly written or printed. The use of letter-size paper (8-1/2 by 11 inches) is mandatory. The writing or printing shall appear on only one side of the page and shall be double-spaced. The top margin of the first page shall be a minimum of three inches, the bottom margin shall be a minimum of one inch and the side margins shall be a minimum of one inch. All subsequent pages shall have a minimum of one inch margins.

Proposed jury instructions must be typewritten on separate unmarked sheets and may not contain citations or other extraneous matter, except as otherwise provided.

Proposed jury instructions shall be typewritten. Each instruction shall be typed on a separate sheet of paper which bears no marking identifying either the party or the attorney presenting the instruction. No citation or other extraneous matter shall appear on a proposed instruction, except as hereinafter provided.

Exhibit copies, when required, must be legible and numbered the same as marked by the Clerk.

Unless the making of copies is impractical, legible copies of exhibits shall be furnished to opposing counsel and the court and numbered the same as marked by the Clerk. This rule shall not apply to rebuttal or impeachment exhibits not required to be offered in the party’s case in chief.

Pleadings and other papers filed with the Clerk must use 8½-by-11 paper, double spacing, and one-sided printing; the Clerk may refuse nonconforming papers.

All pleadings, and other papers presented for filing with the Clerk shall be on 8 ½ by 11 paper with double spacing and shall be printed on one side only. The Clerk may refuse to file any papers not in conformance with this rule.