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General Information
- Court is integrated.
- Legacy cases are available for eFiling.
- There is not $2.00 court fee.
- Credit Cards Accepted: Visa, MasterCard and Discover.
- Kern county no longer require Facsimile Transmission Page
Initial Filings
- Attachments are not allowed
- Multiple lead documents are allowed.
- Exhibits should be bookmarked
- Addresses of Plaintiff(s) and/or defendant(s) are not required, unless filing small claims.
- Original Petitions require all parties to be listed and to be entered in all capitals.
Subsequent Filings
- Proposed orders should be filed as a lead document
- Motions should be filed as a lead document
- Items not needing a file stamp should not have a cover letter as a lead document.
- For small claims, create and upload a cover declaration (MC-20) as the lead document to request service of citation, etc.
Kern is not accepting the following documents through
eFileCA (subject to change):
- Appeals
- Civil
Harassments
- Elder Abuse
- Workplace
Violence
- Gun
Violence
- Writs and
Abstracts (Currently being accepted with Bakersfield civil cases)
- Probate
Petitions Initiating A New Case
- Wills/Codicils
- Bonds
- Abandonments
- Adoptions
- Termination
of Parental Rights
- Domestic
Violence
- Surrogacy
Actions
- Petitions
to Establish Parental Rights
- Foreign
Custody Decree
- Foreign
Divorce Decree
- Registration
of Out of State Order
- Reciprocal
incoming/outgoing UIFSA
Updated 14th December 2016
