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Polk County circuit civil practice provides a coordination procedure for related cases where full consolidation would be inefficient.
Circuit civil cases in Polk County. The order is captioned for Polk County specifically, not the whole circuit.
AO 3-43.0 establishes a procedure applying when two or more circuit civil cases are related, allowing coordination of those cases as an alternative to consolidation where the court determines coordination is more efficient.
IN RE: COORDINATION OF CIRCUIT CIVIL CASES — WHEREAS, the Court has determined that there are circumstances that make coordination of related circuit civil cases more efficient than consolidation of such cases; and WHEREAS, the Court finds it necessary to establish a procedure for coordination of such cases;
Parties in dissolution and most family financial cases must exchange a financial affidavit and specified financial documents within 45 days of service of the initial pleading, file a certificate of compliance, and supplement as circumstances change.
Small claims cases (up to $8,000) begin with a mandatory pretrial conference where the court narrows issues and typically orders mediation. Failure to appear can result in default or dismissal.
CV-E runs a structured 150-day case management conference track with published CMO templates for jury, non-jury, and complex settings, plus a projected-vs-actual trial period system and 2026–2027 published trial calendars.