4 verbatim requirements on case management.
Eighth Judicial Circuit — David P. Kreider | Katherine L. Floyd | William E. Davis only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. • The court must receive all materials for the hearing no later than five business days before the hearing. • Please do not submit your proposed order until all applicable time and notice periods have run. If your motion is set for hearing, then submit your proposed order no more than one week prior to the hearing date. All orders shall include a certificate of service at the bottom of the order indicating the name of the party who is to receive the order, as well as that party’s e-service address OR mailing address, if a hard copy is required. • Courtesy copies must be delivered to the court no later than two days before any evidentiary proceeding. • - Any party may request a case management conference (CMC) when a case requires. The court strongly encourages the early use of CMC in more complex cases, multiple-party litigation, or any case that might benefit from court intervention. Unless excused by the court in advance, all CMCs are mandatory for attorneys and self-represented litigants. Parties represented by counsel are not required to appear at a CMC.
The court must receive all materials for the hearing no later than five business days before the hearing.
Reviewer note: Source sha256: 556f23b1b0b73f1828c24986d47d80851bc485075ea1ba6d7469929127658523. Corpus categories: CASE_MANAGEMENT_OR_TRACK, PROPOSED_ORDERS | CASE_MANAGEMENT_OR_TRACK | FILING_OR_SERVICE, COURTESY_COPIES | CASE_MANAGEMENT_OR_TRACK. Operative status as recorded: LIVE_PAGE_CURRENT_AS_CRAWLED. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. SOURCE DRIFT MEASURED 2026-07-24: the page(s) these requirements were captured from have been edited since capture. A live re-read found 38 of 41 published requirements (93%) still present on 2 source pages (/general-magistrates-hearing-officers/circuit-wide-civil-division-mg-foreclosures-sales/, /general-magistrates-hearing-officers/circuit-wide-civil-division-mg-foreclosures/). The missing text may have been reworded, moved, or withdrawn — BenchPath does not guess which. Confidence held at high because the overwhelming majority survived verbatim. Re-verify before relying on any single clause. SOURCE DRIFT MEASURED 2026-07-24: the page(s) these requirements were captured from have been edited since capture. A live re-read found 34 of 35 published requirements (97%) still present on 1 source page (/general-magistrates-hearing-officers/probate-judicial-practices-and-procedures/). The missing text may have been reworded, moved, or withdrawn — BenchPath does not guess which. Confidence held at high because the overwhelming majority survived verbatim. Re-verify before relying on any single clause.
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.