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Document Upload Policy - Smith County

General Information

  • Amex is accepted.
  • Court is integrated.
  • Court is NOT charging $2 cost recovery fee.
  • Attachments are allowed combined into single document or as separate documents.
  • Multiple lead documents per filing are allowed.



Initial Filings

  • Case Information Sheet should be submitted as a separate filing.
  • Exhibits should be submitted as an attachment.
  • Citation Requests, Copies and the like are under as a separate filing.
  • If the Citation Request is required, it can be downloaded from Smith County Website / County Clerk Forms.
  • The filer can request copies as an optional service to be attached to the citation.
  • The addresses of the plaintiff is not required. The address of the defendant is required.
  • In preparing an Original Petition all parties should be listed.
  • All exhibits should be 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.
  • Non indexed case filings are not accepted.
  • Proposed orders should be filed as a lead document.
  • Motions should be filed as a lead document.
  • Exhibits should be filed an attachment to an appropriate 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 as directed by eFILETX.gov (Case Kennedy) on 4/2/2015

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