Court and hearings

If you need more time to file your brief in the Appeals Court, you can use this interview to ask for an enlargement of time.

This interview will help you tell the court:

• the reason you need to ask for more time,
• the date by which you are able to file your brief by, within the court guidelines, and
• create a complete certificate of service.

A copy of the motion must be served on all other parties to the appeal.

If a judge has given your landlord the right to evict you, you can use this interview to appeal or ask for a stay (temporary delay) in your eviction.

It will help you make a motion for the appeals court and a notice of appeal that will be filed with the trial court. It can also make a request for a fee waiver (affidavit of indigency).

The motion is filed with the Appeals Court and can be efiled.

Use this interview if you would like to file a motion with the Appeals Court not listed elsewhere on this page. For example:

• Motion for leave to file supplemental appendix
• Motion for leave to file sur-reply brief
• Motion to compel assembly of the record

If you are filing a civil action in the Superior Court, you must complete a Civil Action Cover Sheet. This form is required for all civil actions filed in the Superior Court.

The form asks for basic information about the parties and the kind of case.

If your first language is not English, you can use this interview to tell the court that you need an interpreter. The court will provide an interpreter for free during your court hearings.

If you are an attorney who is providing limited representation in a case, you can use this intervew to notify the court and other parties. This document must be filed to appear in the case without committing to representing the client in full.

Limited appearance can mean many things, including:

• Representing at trial but not appeal
• Representing in court for a single hearing
• Helping the client with a motion but not the whole case

This interview will allow you to send it to another person, such as your client, to get their signature remotely.

This interview assembles an appeal of a Housing Court eviction order.

If you would like a single justice of the Appeals Court to overrule a decision made by the trial court judge that is not yet a final judgment of the court, use this form.

You can use this form to ask the Appeals Court to review the decision for mistakes in the law or abuse of discretion. You must provide a legal reason that the judge's decision was wrong.

You can only seek review of an order of the trial court within 30 days of the trial court judge's decision.