14th Judicial Circuit Court, Rock Island County Filing Rules

In dissolution, legal separation, declaration-of-invalidity, and other 750 ILCS proceedings seeking specified financial relief, the parties must file a financial affidavit.

Notice by U.S. Mail must be mailed at least ten days before the hearing.

A mediated agreement must be presented to the court within 30 days after filing of the final Mediator's Report.

Typewritten or printed papers must have at least 1½ inches of blank space at the binding end.

Parties must contact Court Administration by telephone to schedule contested hearings and complex or oversized uncontested hearings.

Circuit clerks must withhold specified personal, medical, employment, address, minor-child, and minor-offense information from Internet access by the general public.

A party may request advancement or postponement of an arbitration hearing by filing written notice with the circuit clerk, serving the motion and hearing notice as required, stating the reason concisely, and showing good cause; the Supervising Judge may grant the request.

For every contested motion, the parties must deliver paper copies to the assigned judge at least ten days before the hearing.

Specified motions must be presented at a 9:00 a.m. walk-in call, after which the Court will set a briefing schedule and argument hearing.

A motion and any supporting or opposition writing may not exceed 10 total pages, excluding supporting documents, without prior court leave.

When proposed orders to open a testate estate are submitted electronically, the clerk must deliver the original will and any codicil to the judge for examination before entry of the admission order.

The scheduling party must initiate and pay for the telephone conference unless the parties agree otherwise or the Court orders otherwise.

All grounds attacking a pleading or paper must be combined into one motion and remain subject to the 10-page limit.