Walla Walla County Superior Court Page & Word Limits

CRITICAL

Limit

20 pages combined per side

Applies to

Declarations affidavits exhibits

Supporting declarations, affidavits, and exhibits are limited to 20 pages total, and responsive materials are separately limited to 20 pages total; simultaneous motions are counted together, subject to stated exclusions and exceptions.

C. Page Limits: Absent prior authorization from the court, the entirety of all declarations, affidavits, and exhibits from the party and any non-expert witness in support of motions shall be limited to a total of twenty (20) pages. The entirety of all declarations, affidavits, and exhibits submitted in response to motions shall be limited to a total of twenty (20) pages. If more than one motion is to be heard at the same time, the page limit applies to the entirety – not each individual motion. 1. Exhibits: Exhibits that consist of declarations or affidavits of parties or witnesses shall count toward the above page limit. Photographs, text messages, email, screen shots, electronic communications, depositions, and similar materials shall count toward the page limit. 2. Financial Declarations: Financial declarations and financial documents do not count toward the page limit. 3. Expert Reports and Evaluations: Declarations, affidavits, reports from GALs, investigators, police reports, substance use evaluations or compliance reports, psychological evaluations and other expert witness reports do not count toward the page limitation. 4. Mandatory forms or legal memorandum/briefs (without declarations) do not count toward the page limit. 5. Miscellaneous exceptions: Copies of declarations or affidavits previously filed for a motion already ruled upon and supplied only as a convenience to the court and not expected to be reviewed prior to the hearing do not count toward the page limit. Any such copies shall be provided under coversheet indexing same by original filing date. 6. Multi-Language: For documents submitted in more than one language, only the English language portion will count toward page limits.

INFO

Limit

5 pages

Applies to

Settlement position statement

The settlement position statement summary should generally be 1–5 pages; this is guidance rather than an absolute page cap.

Generally, the length of the summary will be 1 - 5 pages.

CRITICAL

Parties may not evade the page limit by filing multiple motions close together for matters likely to be heard together.

Parties may not circumvent this rule by filing several motions in the same matter on the same day, or in such proximity that matters are likely to be continued to be heard together.

CRITICAL

Applies to

Counter motion

A counter-motion seeking the same or related relief and heard with the opposing motion does not provide additional pages.

A counter-motion filed requesting the same or related relief and scheduled to be heard with the opposing motion shall not provide parties with additional pages.

INFO

Parties may bring a later motion if it is based on a demonstrated change in circumstances or qualifying newly discovered information.

Parties are not prohibited from bringing additional motions at a later date, so long as the subsequent motion is based on a demonstrated change of circumstances or newly discovered information that could not have been reasonably known at the time of the initial motion.