Guernsey County Court of Common Pleas, General Division Document Format Requirements

CRITICAL

All pleadings, motions, briefs, and other documents must comply with the formatting requirements in Local Court Rule 9.

b. Format: All pleadings, motions, briefs and other documents shall be formatted in accordance with Local Court Rule 9.

CRITICAL

Format

DOCX

Proposed orders and entries, and other documents requiring a judge’s signature, must reference the specific motion, be filed in Microsoft Word format, and contain no embedded mail merge fields or macros.

(i) Proposed orders and entries (or other documents requiring a judge's signature) shall reference the specific motion to which they apply, and shall be filed in Microsoft Word document format, and shall not contain any mail merge fields or macros embedded in the documents.

CRITICAL

Applies to

Document with third party signature

Format

PDF

Documents bearing a third party’s signature must be submitted electronically only as hand-signed, scanned PDF documents.

A document containing the signature of a third party, who is not a party to the action (i.e., affidavit signed by a doctor, military affidavit signed by a staff member or company representative, etc.), shall be electronically submitted only as a hand-signed, scanned-in PDF document.

CRITICAL

A party with more than 10 exhibits must place them in a notebook with appropriate dividers and use the exhibit list as the table of contents.

If a party has more than 10 exhibits, the exhibits shall be in a notebook with appropriate dividers and the list of exhibits as the table of contents.

CRITICAL

Format

PDF

All documents submitted for filing must be in PDF format, except proposed orders, entries, and other documents requiring a judge’s signature.

a. All documents submitted for filing, with the exception of proposed orders and entries (or other documents requiring a judge's signature) shall be filed in Portable Document Format (PDF).

WARNING

Margins

top 2 in

The first page of a pleading, motion, or application must have a top margin of at least two inches for the Clerk's endorsement.

There MUST also be a top margin on the first page of at least two (2) inches for endorsement thereon by the Clerk.

WARNING

Pleadings, motions, and applications must be legibly typewritten or printed on letter-size paper, securely bound at the top, and unfolded.

Pleadings, motions and applications shall be legibly typewritten or printed on letter size paper (8 ½" x 11") and shall be securely bound at the top and unfolded.