
Mandatory eFilers include: all attorneys (whether serving as counsel, fiduciary, or otherwise), all members of the Fiduciary Panel, Examiner Panel, and Visitor Panel, and all participants in the Non-Lawyer Guardianship Pilot Project.Īll mandatory eFilers must register for eFiling as soon as possible but no later than September 23, 2013. On November 1, 2013, all documents submitted in Probate Division cases are to be eFiled by mandatory eFilers and by parties who are not mandatory eFilers but chose to register in a particular case for eFiling. It also provides lawyers, their clients, and self-represented parties with access to filings made in the following Probate Division case types: ADM (Large Decedents’ Estates) SEB (Small Decedents’ Estates) FEP (Foreign Decedents’ Estates) INT (Intervention Proceedings) IDD (Interventions-Developmental Disability) FOI (Foreign Intervention Proceedings) CON (Former Law Conservatorships) GDN (Guardianship of Minors’ Estates) TRP (Trusts) NRT (Notice of Revocable Trusts) DIS (Disclaimers) LIT (Major Litigation) PBM (Probate Miscellaneous) and WIL (Wills). See Administrative Order 18-08.ĮFiling is a method of submitting filings and transmitting orders to the court.

Self-represented parties are not required to file documents electronically, but may do so if they choose. Mandatory eFiling will start for all lawyers practicing in these branches beginning Sunday, October 14, 2018. Law schools and legal services organizations who provide direct civil legal services to low-income and underserved litigants listed in the Attachment to Administrative Order 07-14 are exempt from mandatory e-filing.Įffective Monday, Augvoluntary eFiling enters into effect in the Landlord and Tenant and Small Claims and Conciliation Branches. See Administrative Orders 06-17 and 05-04. Pro se parties are not required to eFile or eServe.

Parties are not allowed to eFile or eServe Judge in Chambers filings or required to eFile Affidavits of Service of Process.

Parties represented by counsel are required to eFile and eServe all subsequent filings for Civil I and Civil II case types. For Civil Actions Cases only, effective parties represented by counsel are required to eFile certain Complaints pursuant to Administrative Order 15-03.
