1. Collect
Index dates, records, communications, witnesses, and exhibits without trying to resolve every legal question during intake.
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Organize first. Verify with the official source.
These guides explain a practical workflow for collecting and connecting your own information. They point to current court sources instead of summarizing rules or calculating deadlines.
Boundary: Steadycase cannot tell you which rule applies, what to file, what evidence to use, or what strategy to follow. Keep case facts and documents in your own files.
A repeatable workflow
Collect, connect, verify.
Use the same organization method in any state while treating your court's current materials as the authority.
2. Connect
Use neutral labels to show which event, record location, witness, and document relate to the same topic.
3. Verify
Record the official court page, access date, document version, and unresolved question. Recheck before acting.
Guides
Start here.
Short, practical guides to the organizing work itself. They apply anywhere; they do not summarize any state's rules.
Guide
How to organize your case papers: start with one list
Build one short index that points to where each item is already saved, before deciding what any of it means.
Read the guide →Starting points
One page per jurisdiction: its own official starting points in one place, with the date every link was last checked.
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Start smaller
Use the free Field Guide before choosing a notebook.
The Field Guide helps you begin the collection and organization work. If you need a deeper spreadsheet system later, compare the Steadycase Trial Notebooks — or watch the Custody Trial Notebook a section at a time.