Ashtabula County Court of Common Pleas, General Division Filing Rules

A request for a psychological or forensic evaluation must be made by written motion accompanied by a memorandum setting forth its basis; the Court may grant it in its discretion.

The proposed confirmation entry must be sent to the Prosecutor’s Office for approval at least fourteen days before submission to the Court and include the specified tax, penalty, and interest payments.

If a party timely files objections, any other party may serve additional objections on all other parties no later than ten days after the first objections are filed.

An additional fee is assessed when a case is mediated again.

Exhibits, attachments, or other documents that cannot be comprehensibly viewed in PDF must be filed physically with the Court.

E-filed documents, pleadings, and papers must be submitted to the Clerk in PDF format, except as provided for proposed orders and proposed entries.

Counsel may agree to one extension of up to 30 days without leave of Court if written consent signed by counsel for each party is filed with the Clerk; otherwise, or for more than 30 days, a party may move for additional time and must state the number of prior extensions obtained.

In criminal cases, counsel and parties must email courtesy copies of pleadings, motions, memoranda, and memoranda contra upon filing, except for matters excluded by the order.

On a party’s motion or the Court’s own motion, other documents containing sensitive personal information may be ordered into the non-public file.

The body or text of covered post-pleading documents is limited to 10 pages; unnecessary exhibits or appendages should not be attached, and the limit may be exceeded for good cause, while filings exceeding it without leave may be stricken.

Courtesy-copy emails must not contain communications to the Court, and the listed email addresses must not be used to communicate with the Court.

Each fax transmission must concern only one case and contain only one filing.