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1 verbatim requirement on case management.
Eighth Judicial Circuit — Judge Phillip A. Pena only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
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Unlock free →All proposed orders should be sent in Microsoft Word format (unless it is an agreed final judgment with attachments). If the Court requests counsel to prepare an order at a hearing, counsel will prepare and submit the order to the Court via email within seven (7) business days unless a different deadline is set by the Court at the hearing. Counsel shall provide the proposed order to opposing counsel/pro se litigant for approval before submitting it to the Court. Once it has been agreed upon, the order shall be emailed to the Court and advising that the order has been agreed upon. If the parties cannot agree on the form of the order and both parties are represented, the lawyers shall email one proposed order with their difference redlined to the judicial assistant. If the differences in the proposed Orders are so significant that a redline is not practical, the lawyers may submit two sepa
Reviewer note: Source sha256: 9ef48b7eba9bc9702283dd9231fe4c653aea74051183b49f444595fa942a3ecf. Corpus categories: PROPOSED_ORDERS | CASE_MANAGEMENT_OR_TRACK | FILING_OR_SERVICE. 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 14 of 17 published requirements (82%) still present on 2 source pages (/courts-judges/judge-phillip-a-pena/judge-pena-division-procedures/, /departments-services/proposed-orders-for-judge-phillip-a-pena/). The missing text may have been reworded, moved, or withdrawn — BenchPath does not guess which. Confidence LOWERED to medium until a human re-reads the source. 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.