Rule 6-4. Signing of Judgment File

(a) Except as hereinafter provided, the judgment file, where it is necessary that it be prepared pursuant to Section 6-3, shall be signed by the clerk or assistant clerk unless otherwise ordered by the judicial authority.

(b) In all actions involving dissolution of marriage or civil union where counsel have appeared for both the plaintiff and the defendant, unless the judicial authority shall order otherwise, counsel for the parties shall endorse their approval of the judgment file immediately below the line for the subscribing authority in the following words: ''I hereby certify that the foregoing judgment file conforms to the judgment entered by the court''; the clerk or assistant clerk, after ascertaining that the terms of the judgment have been correctly incorporated into the judgment file, may sign any judgment file so endorsed.

(c) In those cases in which there is no provision in this section for a clerk to sign a judgment file and in which a case has been tried and judgment has been directed in open court or by memorandum of decision and the trial judge shall die or become incapacitated before the judgment file is signed, any judge holding such court may examine the docket and file and, if it appears therefrom that the issues have been definitely decided and that the only thing remaining to be done is the signing of the judgment file, the judgment file may be drawn up by that judge or under that judge's direction and signed by him or her.

(d) Whenever a clerk or assistant clerk signs a judgment file, the signer's name shall be legibly typed or printed beneath such signature.

Committee Notes

(P.B. 1978-1997, Sec. 338.) (Amended June 24, 2002, to