The Access to Justice Board's Pro Se Project has converted the mandatory domestic relations pattern forms into plain language. The final versions have been approved and are posted below for information only. These new plain language family law forms must be used in all family law cases starting May 1, 2016. The new family law forms are posted ...

A little more than a year ago, Cowlitz County Superior Court implemented several significant case processing changes.Local court rules were changed.  A new trial readiness certificate and case scheduling order were designed and implemented; as well as the Ex Parte process was changed.In addition, we added civil priority weeks and added a dedic...

​Effective April 1, 2016 As of April 1, 2016, we will no longer send out our daily courtroom schedule as in the past. We are moving to a subscription model through our website. Due to technical issues, we cannot simply import existing recipients into the new system. If you wish to continue receiving the daily schedule via e-mail, please go to:...

Monday, April 18, 2016 through Wednesday, April 20, 2016 is Spring Judicial Conference.Per past practices, there will not be any trials or dockets (except for criminal first appearances and protection order hearings) scheduled for these days.The following is the schedule for conference week: Monday:11:30 am Juvenile Detention Hearings; 1:00 pm Crim...

We have added subscription services to our website! You can now subscribe to our news blog, updates to our forms and our daily courtroom schedule updates delivered straight to your mailbox! There is no cost to the service, and it will help us keep you informed when we make changes or updates! We have broken up the various updates into three (curren...

As we roll forward with our website development, we are adding some new features to assist users. Today we have added the ability to view the current and past daily courtroom and judicial officer assignment schedules! The goal is to have each day's schedule posted to the site by 4:00 p.m., but no later than 5:00 p.m. each day. Our schedule tends to...