Document Upload Policy - Smith District
General Information
- Credit Cards Accepted: Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express
- Court is integrated.
- Court is charging a $2.00 cost recovery fee.
- Attachments are allowed as separate documents.
- Multiple lead documents per filing are allowed.
Initial Filings
- Case Information Sheet should be submitted as a separate filing.
- Exhibits should each be uploaded individually (or merged together if more than one) as attachments to the lead document.
- Order and pay for citations, copies, and the like under Court Services.
- You can request copies as an optional service to be attached to the citation.
- The addresses of the plaintiffs are required. The addresses of the defendants are required.
- In preparing an Original Petition all parties should be listed.
Subsequent Filings
- Items not needing a file stamp (proposed orders, notices, etc) should not have a cover letter as the lead document.
- To request citations and the like, create and upload a cover letter request as the lead document in the filing (Filing Code: Request-District).
- Motions should be filed as a lead document.
- Exhibits should each be uploaded individually (or merged together if more than one) as attachments to the lead document.
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 5/22/2015 as directed by Kim Hazuka - New policy update regarding cover letter; court going paperless.