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Vol. 14, No. 7 July 2018
New forms in civil cases
The Maricopa County Civil Cover
Sheet and the Civil Subpoena forms have been updated with new, required
language. Find the new forms online at http://www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov/sscDocs/pdf/cv10fz.pdf
(cover sheet) and https://www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov/SuperiorCourt/LawLibraryResourceCenter/Forms/alphaList.asp#civ
(subpoena).
For future reference, and for additional
forms that have been updated, see the Clerk of the Superior Court’s website at http://www.clerkofcourt.maricopa.gov/CATALOG.htm
and see the Superior Court’s website at https://www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov/SuperiorCourt/LawLibraryResourceCenter/Index.asp.
Downtown Phoenix Probate and Mental Health operations moving in July
The Clerk’s Probate filing
counter will be moving out of the Old Courthouse in downtown Phoenix the week
of July 23, 2018. Probate filings can be handled at the Clerk’s filing counters
located in the Central Court Building and at the Clerk’s filing counter inside
the Law Library Resource Center in the East Court Building.
Also during the week of July 23,
the Superior Court’s downtown Probate/Mental Health Department will be moving
from the Old Courthouse (OCH) to the East Court Building (ECB). The Court
reports its moving dates and locations as follows:
- July 25, 2018: Judge Klein moving to ECB 611
- July 26, 2018: Commissioner Passamonte moving to
ECB 513
- July 26, 2018: Commissioner Schwartz moving to
ECB 514
- July 26, 2018: Commissioner Amy Kalman (taking
over Judge LaBianca’s calendar) moving to ECB 512
- July 27, 2018: Judge Polk moving to ECB 511
Also moving from the OCH to the
ECB on July 25, 2018, will be Judges Patti Starr (moving to ECB 613) and Chris
Whitten (moving to ECB 612) and Commissioner Sigmund Popko (moving to ECB 614).
Although most of the Court’s Probate/Mental Health Court Administration offices
will remain in the OCH, a probate case processing clerk will move to the third
floor of ECB. Once this move has been completed, parties and lawyers wanting to
obtain hearing dates on probate cases downtown will need to go to the third
floor of ECB to obtain the hearing dates from the Superior Court’s probate case
processing clerk.
Filing a confidential document or filing under seal
Few Superior Court filings are
authorized by rule, statute, or court order for filing under seal or as
confidential documents. When a court order authorizes future documents for
filing as a confidential or sealed record, remember to provide the Clerk’s office
with a copy of the previously-signed order when the document is filed. This
precaution alerts the Clerk’s staff that special handling applies to the
document and reduces the chances of the document being filed as a public record.
Without the order authorizing its filing as confidential or sealed, the
document will appear to the Clerk’s file counter staff like any other document intended
for filing as a public record. The problems are compounded when the document is
within a stack of daily filings received at the file counters throughout the
day. Documents authorized for filing as confidential or sealed will be fewer
than 1% of the total documents filed on any given day. Including a copy of the
order authorizing special handling with the document itself will improve the
accuracy of handling the records.
Holiday closure
The Clerk’s offices will be closed on Wednesday, July
4 for the Independence Day holiday. eFile or use the external depository boxes as
applicable for after hours and holiday filing. The 24-hour filing depository
boxes are available for Criminal, Family Court, Tax, and Probate filings and
for some Civil filings. The boxes are not for any Juvenile filings or for Civil
filings that must be eFiled. Find the box locations online at http://www.clerkofcourt.maricopa.gov/alternative_filing.asp.
Enjoy the 4th of July!
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