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ShareeFiling in the Probate Division
eFiling is a method of submitting filings and transmitting orders to the court. 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).
eFiling began on a voluntary basis for all Probate Division cases on September 24, 2013, pursuant to Administrative Order 13-15.
As of 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. 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.
All mandatory eFilers must be registered for eFiling. See Registration Information, below.
Note that the following filings are excluded from eFiling and must be filed in paper:
- Wills and codicils.
- Bonds.
- Confidential Information Form or Form 26 (personal identification information).
- Form 27 (Financial Information).
- Initial pleadings that open a new Probate Division case and filings that require payment of court costs that vary in amount (e.g. new decedent estate cases) or require deposits into the Estate Deposit Account.
- Supporting documents (for Inventories and Accounts) that contain financial information.
- Subpoenas for medical records and foreign subpoenas.
- Fee waivers (formerly known as applications to proceed in forma pauperis).
- Petitions to Re-Open the Administration of an Estate prior to 2005.
- Requests for Extension of Personal Representative’s Appointment in a closed case where bond or waivers must be filed.
Administrative Order on eFiling in the Probate Division
Administrative Order 15-05: Filings by Nonprofit Organizations in the Probate Division
