Gregg County Court at Law Electronic Filing Rules

CRITICAL

A filer filing or serving a document must have valid accounts with both an EFSP and TexFile.

A filer filing or serving a document must have a valid account with an EFSP and with TexFile.

CRITICAL

Filers must follow TexFile’s registration procedures to register to electronically file documents.

To become registered to electronically file documents, filers must follow registration procedures outlined by TexFile. The procedure can be accessed from TexFile' s website at www.texfile.com.

CRITICAL

Each filer must use the confidential, unique electronic identifier issued after initial registration to e-file; that use constitutes a digital signature.

Upon completion of the initial registration procedures, each filer will be issued a confidential and unique electronic identifier. Each filer must use his or her identifier in order to electronically file documents. Use of the identifier to electronically file documents constitutes a "digital signature" on the particular document.

CRITICAL

Filers must submit documents through an EFSP, which transmits them to TexFile for electronic transmission to the district clerk; filers do not file directly with the clerk.

Filers do not electronically file documents directly with the district clerk. Rather, filers indirectly file a document with the district clerk by electronically transmitting the document to an electronic filing service provider (EFSP) which then electronically transmits the document to TexFile which then electronically transmits the document to the district clerk.

CRITICAL

Applies to

Electronic transmission

An electronic transmission to TexFile may contain only one document, except that another document may be included as an attachment.

(a) Except as provided by subsection (b) below, a filer may include only one document in an electronic transmission to TexFile. (b) A filer may electronically transmit a document to TexFile that includes another document as an attachment (e.g., a motion to which is attached a brief in support of the motion).

CRITICAL

Electronic filing is optional unless, on a party’s motion and for good cause shown, the court orders the parties to electronically file documents permitted under Rule 3.3.

(a) Except as provided by subsection (b) below, the electronic filing and serving of court documents is wholly optional. (b) Upon the motion of a party and for good cause shown, a district court may order the parties in a particular case to electronically file and serve court documents that are permitted to be electronically filed under Rule 3 .3.

WARNING

Applies to

Documents filed traditionally with district clerk

Documents that may be traditionally filed with the district clerk may be electronically filed, except for the listed categories.

A document that can be filed in a traditional manner with the district clerk may be electronically filed with the exception of the following documents: i) citations or writs bearing the seal of the court; ii) bonds; iii) subpoenas; iv) proof of service of subpoenas; v) documents to be presented to a court in camera, solely for the purpose of obtaining a ruling on the discoverability of such documents; vi) documents sealed pursuant to TEX. R. CIV. P. 76a; and vii) documents to which access is otherwise restricted by law or court order, including a document filed in a proceeding under Chapter 33, Family Code.

WARNING

Applies to

Scanned image filed electronically under rule 3 4

After a filer electronically files a scanned image under this rule, the court may require the filer to file the document traditionally with the district clerk.

Where a filer has electronically filed a scanned image under this rule, a court may require the filer to properly file the document in a traditional manner with the district clerk.

INFO

Applies to

Attached affidavit or other paper described in rule 3 4 a or b

An affidavit or other paper described in Rule 3.4(a) or (b) may be scanned and electronically filed with the document to which it is attached.

Any affidavit or other paper described in Rule 3.4(a) or (b) that is to be attached to an electronically-filed document may be scanned and electronically filed along with the underlying document.

INFO

The district clerk may maintain and make electronically filed documents available in any manner allowed by law.

(b) The district clerk may maintain and make available electronically-filed documents in any manner allowed by law.

INFO

Applies to

Motion to seal and response

A motion to seal a document and any response to that motion may be electronically filed.

A motion to have a document sealed, as well as any response to such a motion, may be electronically filed.

INFO

A filer may transmit documents electronically through an EFSP to TexFile at any time, except during brief periods of state-approved scheduled maintenance, usually early Sunday morning.

A filer may electronically transmit a document through an EFSP to TexFile 24 hours per day each and every day of the year, except during brief periods of state-approved scheduled maintenance which will usually occur in the early hours of Sunday morning.

INFO

A case file may contain both electronically filed and traditionally filed documents.

(a) The district clerk's file for a particular case may contain a combination of electronically-filed documents and traditionally-filed documents.