Judicial conference, forms

(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. COMMENT 275 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.