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SCR 70.153

Judicial conference, forms

activein force · 2025-01-02 – presentact-effective-date

(1) The court forms that the judicial conference is required to

adopt under s. 758.18, stats., shall be developed by the records

management committee, an advisory committee to the director of state

courts office.

(2) Under article VIII of the bylaws of the judicial conference,

the judicial members of the records management committee act on

behalf of the judicial conference in the adoption of court forms.

(3) Each court form shall include a notice that the form may be

supplemented with additional material.

(4)(a) Upon adoption of a court form, the records management

committee shall distribute or make a copy of the form available to the

clerks of circuit court, the circuit court judges, the state bar of

Wisconsin and other appropriate persons.

(b) Within 90 days after the date of distribution of a standard

court form adopted under s. 758.18(1), stats., an interested person may

file with the records management committee a written objection to the

mandatory use of the form, to the content of the form or to both the use

and the content.

(c) The records management committee shall respond to the

objector under par. (b) in writing within 90 days after receipt of the

objection.

(d) Within 30 days after the date on which he or she receives the

written response of the records management committee to an objection

filed under par. (b), the person filing the objection may file with the

clerk of the supreme court a petition for review of the decision of the

records management committee. The supreme court may request a

response from the records management committee and establish a

schedule for submission of the matter to the supreme court for

determination.

(5) Any voluntary form adopted under s. 758.18 (2), if properly

completed, shall be received for filing or other appropriate action by

the circuit court. If a clerk of circuit court distributes voluntary forms,

the clerk shall use forms adopted under s. 758.18 (2), stats., whenever

they are available for that purpose.

History

COMMENT The amendments to SCR 70.153 made pursuant to this order reflect the authority of the judicial conference, acting at the request of the director of state courts, to adopt forms created for voluntary use by self-represented litigants in the circuit court as provided in s. 758.18 (2), stats.

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2026-09-23
Edition
2026-09-23
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