Group III: Pleadings and Motions · Last amended 2023 · Last verified July 14, 2026
Sections (a) and (b) have been amended to incorporate applicable portions of the 2022 amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 7.1. Section (a) now extends the disclosure requirement to a nongovernmental corporation that seeks to intervene. Section (a) also omits the former requirement that two copies of the disclosure statement be filed. Section (b) has been amended to reflect the new disclosure requirement in section (a).
Sections (a) and (b) are identical to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 7.1, as amended in 2007. Section (c), which is unique to the Superior Court rule, is retained from the prior version of this rule.
Judges need to know when a party's corporate structure might connect it to other interests in a case, and Rule 7.1 is the mechanism for surfacing that. A nongovernmental corporate party, or a nongovernmental corporation that wants to intervene, must file a disclosure statement that either identifies any parent corporation and any publicly held corporation owning 10% or more of its stock, or states that no such corporation exists.
Rule 7.1(b) sets the timing: the disclosure must be filed with the party's or intervenor's first appearance, pleading, petition, motion, response, or other request addressed to the court, and a supplemental statement must be filed promptly whenever the required information changes. That keeps the disclosure current throughout the case rather than treating it as a one-time filing.
Rule 7.1(c) carves out a narrower path for collection and subrogation cases filed under Rule 40-III(a): the plaintiff does not need to file a disclosure statement unless and until the defendant files a responsive pleading or otherwise appears to contest the complaint's allegations. Once that happens, the plaintiff must file the statement promptly.
Any nongovernmental corporate party to the case, and any nongovernmental corporation seeking to intervene, must file the disclosure statement described in Rule 7.1(a).
Rule 7.1(a) requires identifying any parent corporation and any publicly held corporation that owns 10% or more of the filing corporation's stock, or stating that no such corporation exists.
Rule 7.1(b) requires filing it with your first appearance, pleading, petition, motion, response, or other request addressed to the court, and filing a supplemental statement promptly if the required information later changes.
Not if the case was filed under Rule 40-III(a) as a collection or subrogation action. Rule 7.1(c) excuses the plaintiff from filing the statement unless and until the defendant files a responsive pleading or otherwise appears to contest the complaint, at which point it must be filed promptly.
No. The rule applies to nongovernmental corporate parties and nongovernmental corporations seeking to intervene, not to individuals.