1. Requirements for Acceptance.
   
   
   1. The Court may, whenever it deems necessary, require the use of printed forms supplied by the Court.
      
      
   2. Upon filing a new case, or entering an appearance as substituted counsel or as co-counsel, each attorney shall provide the Court with their Attorney Registration Identification Number issued by the Supreme Court of Ohio. The number shall be conspicuously placed on an original filing or Order whenever an attorney first represents a fiduciary in any estate, trust, guardianship, or civil case.
      
      
   3. All filings, except Wills, shall be on white paper.
      
      
   4. All filings must contain original signatures. In all matters with multiple fiduciaries where the fiduciaries’ signatures are required, the signature of all fiduciaries are required.
      
      
   5. Notwithstanding Civil Rule 11 and the standard probate forms, the fiduciary’s(s’) signature(s) is(are) required on all matters pertaining to the receipt and expenditure of funds, resignation of fiduciary or any applications or motions.
      
      
2. Approval by Attorney of Fiduciary Filings.
   
   
1. Each document presented to the Court for filing on behalf of a fiduciary, if not otherwise required to be signed by the fiduciary's attorney, shall have endorsed thereon the approval of the attorney-at-law, if any, who represents the fiduciary, in the following form:

Approved:

_______________________________________
Attorney for Fiduciary

2. The signature of an attorney constitutes a certification that the attorney has read the pleadings; that to the attorney's best knowledge, information, and belief, there is good ground to support it; and that it is not interposed for delay.
   
   
3. Motions.

   Unless an oral hearing is requested, all Motions shall be submitted on memorandum or brief. Requests for hearing must be in writing, and filed with the Motion. A statement of the grounds upon which the Motion is based, together with a citation of authorities relied upon, shall be presented in the memorandum or brief.

   Within ten (10) days after the receipt of a copy of a Motion, opposing counsel shall prepare and file a reply to the Motion, setting forth written statements of opposition to the Motion, together with a citation of authorities relied upon in opposition.

   The Motion shall be ruled upon at any time after fourteen (14) days from the date of filing the Motion.(C) Motions.

   Unless an oral hearing is requested, all Motions shall be submitted on memorandum or brief. Requests for hearing must be in writing, and filed with the Motion. A statement of the grounds upon which the Motion is based, together with a citation of authorities relied upon, shall be presented in the memorandum or brief.

   Within ten (10) days after the receipt of a copy of a Motion, opposing counsel shall prepare and file a reply to the Motion, setting forth written statements of opposition to the Motion, together with a citation of authorities relied upon in opposition.

   The Motion shall be ruled upon at any time after fourteen (14) days from the date of filing the Motion.

4. Maintaining Privacy of Personal Identifying Numbers.

   To protect legitimate personal privacy interests, social security and other personal identifying numbers, such as birth dates, shall be redacted from documents as directed by these rules before the documents are filed with the Probate Court. The responsibility for redacting personal identifying numbers rest solely with the attorneys and parties who file the documents. The clerks will not review the documents to confirm that personal identifying numbers have been excluded.

5. Account Numbers.

   All financial asset account numbers in any public record document filed in this Court shall disclose only the last four digits of the account number. It is the responsibility of the person filing the document to redact the remaining digits of the account number.
   

[Former Rule 24.1 amended and renumbered as Rule 57.1, effective June 10, 1998; amended effective February 1, 2008; amended effective July 1, 2010.]