| name | wa-spokane |
| title | Spokane County Superior Court — Venue Skill |
| description | Use when handling a Spokane County, Washington Superior Court case — civil practice at the **Spokane County Courthouse** (1116 West Broadway Avenue, Spokane), the largest Eastern Washington county with ~547,000 residents and the regional hub for Eastern WA civil + family + criminal practice. Spokane County Superior Court has **Spokane County Local Rules (SLR)** overlaying the general CR + GR. Coverage includes Spokane's **e-filing system**, the case-management order issued under SLR 16, family-law calendar, Spokane Family Law Commissioners under RCW 2.24, Spokane's participation in **Mandatory Arbitration of Civil Actions (MAR) under RCW 7.06** (current cap per RCW 7.06.020 — read from references), Spokane's **drug- court / therapeutic-court divisions**, and the General Order on remote hearings. Spokane functions as the **Eastern Washington appellate hub** with Division III of the Court of Appeals also seated in Spokane. Triggers include "Spokane County Superior Court", "Spokane Superior Court", "SLR", "Spokane local rules", "Spokane e-filing", "Spokane family law", "Spokane MAR", "Division III Court of Appeals". |
| author | codearranger |
| author_url | https://github.com/codearranger/claude-legal/tree/main/plugins/wa-court-docs/skills/wa-spokane |
| license | MIT |
| version | 0.1.0 |
| execution_mode | open |
| jurisdiction | us |
| practice | litigation |
| language | en |
Spokane County Superior Court — Venue Skill
NOT LEGAL ADVICE. SLR motion-timing, MAR caps, and
revision-motion windows are amended periodically.
Current values live in the references corpus
(court-rules/, wa-rcw-debt/) — this skill names
the controlling sources without embedding the day
counts.
At a glance
- Court: Spokane County Superior Court
- Address: Spokane County Courthouse, 1116 West
Broadway Avenue, Spokane, WA 99260
- Population served: ~547,000
- Jurisdiction: General-jurisdiction trial court
(RCW 2.08) — civil, family, criminal, juvenile,
probate
- Regional role: Eastern Washington's largest
civil-trial court; Division III of the Washington
Court of Appeals seated in Spokane (serves the
Eastern Washington counties)
Local rules
Spokane County Local Rules (SLR) overlay the
statewide CR + GR.
SLR 4 — Initial filings
- Civil cover sheet
- Confidential information form per GR 22
- Specific Spokane case-assignment protocol
SLR 7 — Motion practice
SLR 7 sets the motion-day timing. Read the current
schedule from wa-law-references/references/court- rules/ (or hand off to wa-deadlines) rather than
relying on memory. Working copies to assigned judge.
SLR 16 — Case scheduling
Standing case-management order issued setting:
- Status conference
- Discovery cutoff
- Pretrial
- Trial date
Spokane family-law local rules
Separate family-law local rules — temporary orders,
parenting evaluators, family-law-commissioner practice.
E-filing
Spokane County uses an electronic filing system; e-filing
mandatory for represented parties. Pro se can use paper
or e-filing through the clerk's portal. Filing fees per
RCW 36.18.020.
Mandatory Arbitration of Civil Actions — RCW 7.06 + MAR
Spokane County participates in mandatory arbitration.
Civil cases below the local jurisdictional cap are
referred. The cap and the trial-de-novo window are set
by RCW 7.06 and the WA MAR; read current values from
RCW-7_06.md and court-rules/MAR.md rather than
relying on memory.
Commissioners
Spokane has Family Law Commissioners + civil
commissioners (under RCW 2.24) for ex parte, motions,
civil protection orders under RCW 7.105.
