Cherokee County Superior Court, Georgia Filing Rules

When custody is at issue, each party must prepare and submit a proposed Parenting Plan to the Court, except in a request for emergency family-violence relief.

A copy of a mediation-waiver motion must be delivered to the opposing party.

The Clerk must reassign an inadvertently assigned case within 60 days of its initial filing if the Judge has taken no action on it.

The Clerk must email the receiving judge’s judicial assistant and criminal calendar clerk about a recusal or transfer as soon as practicable.

Funds collected under the prior order through February 29, 2024, must be remitted to the Ninth Judicial Administrative District, while funds collected on or after March 1, 2024, must be remitted to the Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit ADR Program.

If court action has been taken in the case or more than 60 days have passed since its creation, the reassignment request must be made by motion.

At filing, petitioners must provide the assigned judge’s staff a copy of the adoption petition, including a blank Rule Nisi for the judge’s signature.

Covered adoption petitioners must complete fingerprint-based NCIC and GCIC background checks and submit the results electronically to the assigned judge’s office; specified prior checks and certain adoption types are exempt from a new check.