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                    APPENDIX E

IN THE COMMON PLEAS COURT OF HURON COUNTY, OHIO

                                                                                    )          CASE NO.

                                                                                    )          JUDGE EARL R. McGIMPSEY

                                                                                    )          PRETRIAL ORDER

1.         Counsel shall, prior to the pretrial conference, file with the Court and exchange with each other supplemental Court Forms 1 and 2 if any answers to questions on the forms originally filed were left blank or answered “unknown.”

2.         Counsel shall have communicated with each other and be prepared at the pretrial conference to enter into stipulations of all issues that can be resolved through negotiations, including, but not limited to:

                        a)        Who will proceed to obtain the divorce and the grounds.

                        b)        Who is to be designated residential parent, if appropriate.

                        c)        Any child support variance from the guidelines accompanied with reasons for the               variance.

                        d)        Any child visitation variance from the Local Court Rule Companionship Schedule with                         reasons for the variance.

                        e)        Any variance in medical payments for children from the Local Court Rule Medical                         Expenses Schedule with reasons for the variance.

                        f)         Income tax dependency exemption allocation.

                        g)        Present value of any pension plan.

                        h)        An itemized division of property.

                        i)         Spousal support, if any, to be paid.

3.         Counsel shall be prepared at the pretrial conference to identify all issues, not resolved, to be determined at trial.

4.         The stipulations and identification of issues to be determined at trial shall be read into the record at the pretrial conference, be binding on the parties and be reduced to writing by counsel, signed by counsel and the parties and filed with the Court at the earliest possible time not later than 15 days following the pretrial conference.

5.         Counsel who fail to comply with this pretrial order may be subject to sanctions, including but not limited to the payment of opposing counsel’s attorney fees incurred in attending the pretrial conference and obtaining any discovery which should have been disclosed prior to the pretrial conference, when it is determined by the Court that such failure is the result of neglect or is dilatory and such failure materially interferes with the ability of the Court to conduct a meaningful pretrial conference.

                                                                                                __________________________________________

                                                                                               JUDGE EARL R. McGIMPSEY

Copies to:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

(forms\pretrial order)