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Document Upload Policy - Smith County Court at Law

General Information

  • Credit Cards Accepted: Visa, MasterCard, American Express
  • Court is integrated. Case information for an existing case will not be provided to you.
  • Court is charging the $2 cost recovery fee.
  • Attachments are allowed combined into single document.
  • Multiple lead documents per filing are not allowed.

Initial Filings

  • Case Information Sheet should be submitted as a separate lead document in a new filing.
  • Exhibits should be uploaded as attachment to the original petition.
  • Complete the Citation Service Request and upload as an attachment to the lead document. On the Add Document page, select Service Work Order in the Document Type field.
  • Order and pay for Citation Requests, Copies and the like under Court Services.
  • The addresses of the plaintiffs are required. The addresses of the defendants are required.
  • In preparing an Original Petition all parties should be listed.
  • All exhibits should be merged into a single document.

Subsequent Filings

  • Items not needing a file stamp (proposed orders, notices, etc) should not have a cover letter as the lead document.
  • Motions should be filed as lead documents.
  • Exhibits should be filed as lead documents.
  • Proposed orders should be filed as an attachment with a cover letter as the lead document.
  • Exhibits should be filed as an attachment with an appropriate lead document.
  • To request citations and the like, create and upload a cover letter request as the lead document in the filing (Filing Code: Requests).
  • Order and pay for Citation Requests, Copies and the like under Court Services.

Case Information Availability


*       This jurisdiction’s Case Management System, (CMS) is fully integrated into the State eFiling system.

*       When you are making a subsequent eFiling into an existing case for this jurisdiction your case should be available in the eFiling system and your case information will be automatically imported.

*       If the case is not found, please recheck your search criteria. If the system still does not return your case, please send an email to support@filetime.com. We will contact the State eFiling system and jurisdiction to correct the issue.

Updated by Kenny Williams on 9/2/2014 as directed by Lois Rogers

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