Greene County Court of Common Pleas, General Division Filing Rules

Failure to timely file the required motion in limine waives the right to challenge the identified expert witness's qualifications at trial.

The filing date is the day the pleading or document was submitted through e-filing.

Applicants for ILC evaluation must pay a Court-specified fee in advance, but the Greene County Public Defender’s Office will pay the fee for indigent defendants represented by an appointed Public Defender attorney.

The requesting party or counsel must promptly mail notice of the sale’s time, date, and location to record owners or their counsel and to non-default interested parties or their counsel, except for publication-only service of summons on record owners.

When a minor child's name must be included, only the child's initials may be used.

Original documents attached to or offered as exhibits are exempt from the specified document formatting requirements.

A continuance motion based on a conflict with another court must include a file-stamped copy of the other court’s scheduling notice when that notice preceded the scheduling of the proceeding in this court.

A memorandum supporting a motion is limited to 15 pages, excluding the table of contents, tables of authorities, and appendices, unless the Court grants prior leave.

Pleadings, motions, and other papers may be filed by facsimile or email transmission only under the specified procedures.

Counsel must notify the court when a case is settled.

Unless a motion requests appointment of a Private Selling Officer, the Sheriff conducts a public auction in Treasurer’s foreclosure actions and an online auction in other foreclosure actions demanding judicial sale.