Grant County Superior Court Document Format Requirements

CRITICAL

Recorded information on discs, tapes, drives, or similar devices must not be attached to documents filed with the clerk.

Compact discs, digital video discs, audio tapes, thumb drives and similar devices containing recorded information shall not be attached to documents filed with the court clerk.

CRITICAL

A status conference statement in covered cases must use Form LR 8-B.

In every civil case to which the scheduling procedure set forth in LR 26F applies, each party filing and serving a status conference statement (Form LR 8-B) shall indicate thereon whether or not the case is subject to mandatory arbitration.

CRITICAL

The arbitrator information sheet must be on the form prescribed by the Court.

A person desiring to serve as an arbitrator shall complete an information sheet on the form prescribed by the Court.

CRITICAL

Proposed jury instructions must include a cited copy with marginal authority citations and sequential lettering or numbering, and a clean copy without citations, letters, or numbers; the presenting party numbers the final clean copy.

Each party wishing to propose jury instructions shall file with the Clerk, deliver to the Judge, and serve on other parties one cited copy and one clean copy of each instruction proposed. Cited copies shall include marginal citation of the authority relied upon in proposing the instruction, and will be sequentially lettered or numbered. Clean copies shall not include citations, letters or numbers. The final clean copy of all jury instructions will be numbered by the presenting party.

CRITICAL

Format

PAPER

To make recorded information part of the court record, it must be transcribed if possible and filed as a paper document.

In order to make such recorded information part of the court’s record they must be transcribed, if possible, and then filed as a document in paper format.

CRITICAL

The arbitrator's award must use a form prescribed by the Court.

The arbitrator's award shall be prepared on a form prescribed by the Court.

CRITICAL

Documents and copies must be legible; typed documents must use at least 12-point type, 1.5 spacing, and conform to GR 14, and mandatory forms must be used.

(i) Form. All documents and copies provided shall be legible. If typed, documents shall be in 12 point or larger type, 1.5 spaced between the lines and conform to GR 14. Mandatory forms shall be used.

CRITICAL

The oath of office must use the form prescribed by the Court.

The oath of office, in a form prescribed by the Court, must be completed and filed prior to an applicant being placed on the arbitration panel.

CRITICAL

When filing the award, the arbitrator must submit a payment request on a Court-prescribed form.

(c) Form. When the arbitrator's award is filed, the arbitrator shall submit to the Court a request for payment on a form prescribed by the Court.

CRITICAL

Attorneys must appear by video at a virtual hearing.

Attorneys are required to appear by video.

WARNING

Pro se litigants and attorneys’ clients may appear by telephone only if they cannot appear by video.

Pro se litigants (and an attorney’s clients) may appear by telephone only if they do not have the ability to appear by video.

WARNING

Every working copy must show the hearing date and time in its upper-right corner.

All working copies must have the hearing date and time on the upper right hand corner.

WARNING

An item filed with the clerk that is not a document must be treated as an exhibit.

(ii) Format requirements. Any item filed with the court clerk that is not a document shall be treated as an exhibit.

WARNING

The required asset-and-debt statement must be in spreadsheet format.

Not later than noon two (2) court day before the day on which an action for dissolution of marriage, dissolution of a registered domestic partnership, division of assets of a committed intimate relationship, or similar case, is called for trial, when there exists a dispute between the parties regarding the characterization, valuation or distribution of any asset or debt, each party shall file with the trial judge and serve on the other party a statement in spreadsheet format of all assets and debts of the parties within the Court's jurisdiction.

INFO

In a protection-order matter, a party who cannot appear by video or telephone may appear in person.

If this matter involves a request for a protection order, a party may appear in person if they are unable to appear by video or telephone.