FORM AND FORMATTING OF PLEADINGS, MOTIONS, AND OTHER DOCUMENTS

(a) Form. All pleadings, motions, and other documents to be filed shall be typewritten, printed, photocopied, or otherwise similarly prepared by a duplication process that will produce clear and permanent copies equally legible to printing. Conventionally filed documents shall be printed upon unruled, opaque, unglazed white paper of standard quality not less than 13 pound weight, 8 ½ x 11 inches in size with a portrait orientation. Each sheet of text shall have a margin at the top and bottom of 1 inch (except as otherwise provided in paragraph (c) of this Rule). Each sheet of text shall have a left-hand and right-hand side margin and each margin shall be not less than 1 inch. The text of all documents shall be printed in black. The type shall be standard 12 point Times New Roman, Arial, or equivalent. For conventionally filed documents, copies, but not originals, may be two-sided. The lines on each page shall be double-spaced or one and one-half spaced; provided, however, descriptions of real property, and quotations, may be single spaced. All pages shall be numbered consecutively at the bottom. Conventionally filed documents shall be firmly bound together at the top and exhibits may be fastened to pages of the specified size. Documents, when prepared by a machine-copying process, shall be equal to typewritten material in legibility and permanency of image. Conventional signatures and all other original hand-written entries on documents shall be in black or blue ink. The name of the person signing the pleading, motion, or other document shall be typed or printed in block letters directly below the signature. (b) No blank sheet shall be attached to any pleading, motion, or other document. No blank sheet shall be attached to the front or back of any pleading, motion, or other document. All pleadings, motions, or other documents shall be filed without backs and shall be neat, clean, legible and free of interlineations. (c) Caption; form of first page. The first page of every pleading, motion or other document shall contain a caption setting forth the name of the court, the title of the action, the case number, and the name of the pleading, motion, or other document as described below. The first page of each document shall have either a 3-inch top margin or a 3-inch-by-3-inch space in the top right corner, to accommodate an electronic file stamp. The first page of each document shall also have a 1.5 inch bottom margin to accommodate a court certification. The first page of each document, except as provided below in (d) shall be in the following form: (1) The space at the top left of the page shall contain the name, attorney number, office address, telephone number, facsimile number (if any), and electronic mail address of the attorney for the party on whose behalf the document is filed, or of the party if the party is not represented by an attorney and if no order has been filed designating the party’s information confidential; (2) Next, the name of the court shall be centered and not less than 3 inches from the top of the page; (3) Next, the space to the left of the center of the page shall contain the title of the case (which title shall include the names of all of the parties in the initial pleading, but thereafter may be appropriately abbreviated); (4) In the space to the right of the title to the case, there shall be listed the case number, the title of the document, and the title of each additional document that is attached as required by (d) below; and (5) Next, there shall be centered the title of the document itself. (d) Two or more documents filed together. Except as otherwise provided in this Rule, where 2 or more documents are filed together, only the first page of the first document shall follow all of the requirements of (c) above. The top of the first page of each of the subsequent documents shall start with the name of the court and include the case number, the title of the case and the title of that document itself, in the appropriate spaces as set forth in (c) above. Where a document is electronically filed with attached exhibits, it shall be filed in accordance with Rule 2.3 of the Hawaiʻi Electronic Filing and Service Rules and each exhibit shall have either a 3-inch top margin or a 3-inch-by-3-inch space in the top right corner, to accommodate an electronic file stamp. (e) Proposed findings, conclusions, orders, or judgments submitted for signature. Proposed findings, conclusions, orders, or judgments which are attached to a coversheet and submitted for signature pursuant to these Rules shall also comply with all of the requirements of (c) above. (f) Sanctions. The court may impose sanctions for non-compliance with these Rules. (Amended March 30, 2022, effective April 25, 2022.)