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                                   RULE 89.
                       VITAL STATISTICS OR OTHER FORMS.


     (a)  Presentation.  At the time a petition for dissolution of marriage or
a petition for declaration of invalidity of marriage is filed, the attorney for
petitioner shall file with the clerk a completed vital statistics form and such
other forms as shall from time to time be mandated by the legislature.  No
final decree regarding such an action will be accepted for filing unless all
such completed forms have been previously filed with the clerk.

     (b)  Delivery of Decree.  In default dissolution cases, at the time of
filing the decree, the lawyer for the petitioning party or the petitioner if
pro se shall immediately deliver to his/her client and deliver to or mail to
the other party, at his/her address, if known, or to his/her lawyer, a
conformed copy of the decree with the date of filing of the original stamped on
each copy so delivered or mailed.


[Amended effective September 1, 2005; September 1, 2012.]
	

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