Circuit Court Probate Division Rules Table of Contents
No Petition, Motion, objection, or other Pleading, which is
contained in a letter shall be accepted by the Register, as such, or acted on by
the Court. Approved forms shall be furnished by the Register and must be used in
all proceedings to which they are applicable. In all inventories and accounts
where there is not sufficient space in the original form, additions or riders
may be attached on paper of the same size. If no approved form is specifically
applicable, the Party shall then file a Petition or Motion in such form as
complies with the Rules of this Court.
Practitioners may produce form reproductions for use in the
Courts that are either computer generated replicas or photocopies of forms
furnished by the Registers. Form reproductions are documents containing the
identical wording, in the identical format, and pagination as in the original,
but font size or style may be different from the font size or style of the
original court furnished form. Computer generated replicas or photocopies of
multi-paged probate forms may be single-sided.
All Courts shall accept form reproductions of approved forms.
All Courts shall consider that the Party who signs and/or files the form
reproduction has agreed that the document is a reproduction of the form of the
same import furnished by the Register. The Party who signs and/or files the form
reproduction shall be held accountable for its form and content. Discrepancies
between a form reproduction and a court-furnished original may subject the Party
who signs/or files the reproduction to court-imposed sanctions or penalties,
including removal as Fiduciary.