Pacific and Wahkiakum Counties Superior Court Document Format Requirements

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Proposed Child Support Worksheets must use the mandatory state form.

Proposed Child Support Worksheets on the mandatory state form

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Agreed-divorce pleadings must be approved pattern forms.

Both parties have executed approved pattern-form pleadings

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Pleadings, motions, and other filed papers must comply with GR 14, be typed or legibly handwritten, be double spaced, and use type of at least 12 points.

All pleadings, motions, and other papers filed with the court shall comply with GR 14 and be typed or legibly handwritten and double spaced. Print in any format must appear as 12 point or larger type.

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Financial declarations submitted during trial must use the mandatory state form.

Financial Declarations on the mandatory state form must be submitted during the trial

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The opposing party’s form must be similar to Attachment A and state available dates for trial and settlement conference.

The opposing party must serve and file a similar form (Attachment A), indicating their available dates for trial and settlement conference, before the noted hearing date.

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Financial declarations must use the mandatory state form.

Both parties must file financial declarations on the mandatory state form:

CRITICAL

A proposed Parenting Plan or Residential Schedule must use the mandatory state form.

A Proposed Parenting Plan or Residential Schedule on the mandatory state form

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The Request for Trial Setting must substantially follow the form in Attachment A.

The moving party must serve all parties with a Request for Trial Setting, substantially in the form provided in Attachment A.

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Photocopies of reported cases, statutes, or legal texts must not be filed as a brief appendix or otherwise.

Photocopies of reported cases, statutes, or legal texts shall not be filed as an appendix to a brief or otherwise.

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The original exhibit set goes to the Clerk, and the bench copy sent to Court Administration must be provided in two separate notebooks, packets, or binders.

The original set shall go to the Clerk, and a bench copy shall be sent to Court Administration in two separate notebooks, packets, or binders.

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Discovery-produced documents and copies, including interrogatories and items properly received as exhibits, must not be included in the court file.

Documents or copies produced during discovery, including interrogatories and other items that should correctly be received as exhibits, shall not be included in the court file.

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Filed pleadings, motions, and other papers, except digital exhibits under section C, must be suitable for legible digitization and may be rejected if they are not.

Except digital exhibits submitted pursuant to section C of this rule, all pleadings, motions, and other papers filed with the court shall be of such quality as to be capable of legible digitization. The Clerk’s office may reject or decline to accept any submission which cannot be digitized legibly.

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2. One copy unnumbered with citations filed as proposed with the Clerk.

2. One copy unnumbered with citations filed as proposed with the Clerk.

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The electronic proposed instructions emailed to Court Administration must be unnumbered, uncited, and in Word format.

1. Email Court Administration an electronic copy containing an unnumbered, uncited set of the proposed instructions in Word format.