Wyandot County Court of Common Pleas Electronic Filing Rules

CRITICAL

Anyone e-filing documents must register as a user in the e-Filing Portal, available through the Clerk’s website.

a. All persons e-Filing documents shall be registered as users in the e-Filing Portal which can be found via our website at www.wyandotcountyclerk.org.

CRITICAL

Parties represented by counsel may not e-file documents or pleadings on their own behalf; such filings will be rejected.

b. Parties who are represented by counsel, are NOT permitted to e-File documents or pleadings on their own behalf. Such filings shall be rejected.

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The e-filing notification component must be turned on so the filer can receive notice of a rejection.

The notification component of e-Filing MUST be turned on or you may not be aware that your filing was rejected.

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Attorneys and pro se litigants may fax filings only when emergency or time-critical circumstances prevent timely delivery by mail or in-person filing.

Attorneys and pro se litigants shall limit use of facsimile to filings of an emergency or time-critical nature only. A filing is of an emergency or time-critical nature if a document is due to the Court by set deadlines, and/or hearings and will not arrive to the Court via regular or express mail or cannot be brought to the Clerk of Courts Office for filing with the Court within the available timeframe.

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The listed documents and filings will not be accepted for filing by fax.

## The following documents will not be accepted for fax filing: - a. cognovit promissory note - b. original complaint and accompanying paperwork for a new domestic or civil case action - c. motion for reopening of a case - d. answer with cross complaint needing service - e. debtor's exam - f. writ of possession - g. garnishment - h. service by publication and/or praecipe for order of sale - i. making and/or filing and/or releasing of a certificate of judgment - j. request for execution by the Sheriff - k. filing of an appeals action - l. filing of a motion/application for sealing or expungement of a criminal record

WARNING

The listed filings are not accepted through e-filing at this time.

b. At this time, we are not accepting the following via e-Filing: Court of Appeals; transcripts or briefs; garnishments; search warrants & their returns; protection orders; certificate of judgments; and cognovit note collection actions.

WARNING

Attorneys should limit fax-filing requests to emergencies or time-critical filings, and the Court may revoke the privilege for apparent abuse.

1.) Attorneys should limit requests for electronic transmission (fax) to filings of an emergency to time-critical nature. The Court reserves the right to revoke this privilege from any attorney who appears to be abusing the privilege.

WARNING

Users other than specified court staff must obtain permission from the Clerk of Court or a designated deputy clerk before using the court’s facsimile device to transmit documents.

7.) Users of the facsimile device other than members of the staff of the Clerk of Courts or the Judge of Common Pleas Court, All Divisions, shall first receive permission from the Clerk of Court or the designated deputy clerk prior to using said device with the transmission of receipt of document (s).

WARNING

Pleadings, motions, exhibits and other case documents, other than those outlined herein, may be filed with the Wyandot County Clerk of Courts Office by facsimile transmission to 419-294-6414 subject to the following conditions.

Pleadings, motions, exhibits and other case documents, other than those outlined herein, may be filed with the Wyandot County Clerk of Courts Office by facsimile transmission to 419-294-6414 subject to the following conditions.

WARNING

If a fax filing lacks required cover-sheet information, the Clerk may either file it or place it in the failed-fax file without docketing it.

If a document is received by the Clerk of Courts Office by fax without the cover sheet information listed above, the Clerk may, at its discretion: cause the document to be filed, enter it into the case docket and make it a part of the case file; or deposit the document in a file of failed faxed documents with a notation of the reason for the failure and shall not cause the document to be filed, entered into the case docket or made a part of the case file.

WARNING

Pleadings and other papers may be filed with the court by fax, subject to the stated restrictions.

All pleadings and other papers may be filed with the court by electronic transmission (fax) subject to the following provisions: