Kitsap County Superior Court Filing Rules

Every petition for an Order of Justification must be verified under oath or certified under penalty of perjury.

Dispositive pretrial motions may not be heard after the schedule’s cutoff unless good cause is shown and the court imposes any just terms or conditions, which may include terms and sanctions.

Materials must be filed with the Clerk before they are submitted as bench copies.

Copies of an amended trial-date and case-event-schedule order must be filed and served on all parties.

Domestic relations and parentage matters, including Orders to Show Cause and Presentation of Orders, must be confirmed under the referenced provision.

The required statement may take the form of either a declaration or a memorandum.

Bench copies must be PDFs, except proposed Orders should be in Word format; TIF, JPG, JPEG, and other file types will not be accepted.

If a hearing is not confirmed, a party may retrieve a filed bench copy on or before the originally scheduled hearing date, update its date, and refile it.

For Department 7 calendar hearings set on or after April 4, 2025, electronic bench copies are optional and paper copies may also be submitted under the Local Court Rules.

A party or the Court may seek modification of a case-schedule date by written motion, and the preassigned judge may grant it upon good cause shown.

Probate, guardianship, and non-Rule 56 civil motions in unassigned cases are heard Fridays at 9:00 a.m.; civil matters in preassigned cases are heard on the assigned judge’s Friday 1:30 p.m. departmental calendar.

Medical and other health information submitted using the Sealed Medical and Health Information Cover Sheet is automatically sealed.

The court charges $0.15 per copy plus mailing costs for requested administrative-record copies.

A reply declaration is limited to 3 pages and must be double-spaced in 12-point font.

(C) One set containing unnumbered instructions without citations submitted electronically by email attachment (to the staff attorney assigned to the trial judge).