When submitting a Stip & Order, if one of the parties listed on the stipulation has yet to appear in the case, the court will require First Appearance Fees for that party. Whichever party agrees to file the Stip & Order will have to pay those fees at the time of filing. The court will [...]
The Los Angeles County Superior Court’s Civil Division is currently experiencing a court wide service outage. During the outage, filings are not able to be submitted electronically or manually. The court is aware of the issue and working to resolve it as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience and we will send more information [...]
A recent software update by the Monterey Superior Court’s eFiling software provider has resulted in an anomaly that affects the case data transmitted from the filer to the court. In a small percentage of filings that require court fees, the “responsible party” information is not populating correctly on the court’s side. This anomaly affects [...]
The Los Angeles Superior Court operations manager notified all electronic filing service providers of a deficiency in some documents being submitted to the court. The First Amended General Order RE: Mandatory Electronic Filing for Civil, dated May 3, 2019, requires eFiled PDF documents to be submitted in text searchable format. Currently, 20% of the documents submitted [...]
The Los Angeles Superior Court and Journal Technologies held a monthly service provider update meeting last week. The following items were discussed: Common EFM Error Regarding First Appearance Fees There is a common error occurring that displays as "Pre-submit fee calculation error: First appearance fee for document is not found. Set up first appearance fee in [...]
Effective immediately, please submit an appropriate blank Civil Lawsuit Notice (CV-5012) or Civil Lawsuit Notice – Rule 3.740 Collections Cases (CV-5052) to the court for issuance of Judicial Assignment, Initial Court Hearing Date, Time, and Department with the filing of your new complaint. These forms may be located on The Superior Court of California, Santa [...]
The civil efiling Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) have been updated and are now available on the Court’s website, lacourt.org. The changes to the FAQs include, but are not limited to, the following categories: Additional documents exempt from efiling (Question 6) Guidance for obtaining an Order for Appointment of Guardian Ad Litem (Question 7) Direction regarding [...]
The Los Angeles Superior Court is currently experiencing intermittent issues with some Civil eFiling submissions that include fee payments. You may receive an error notice that states: “Pre-submit calculation error: could not insert: [com.sustain.financial.model.Invoice]”. While the court is currently working to resolve this issue, if you receive this message, please wait a few hours before [...]
Effective Friday, June 28, 2019, the Orange County Superior Court will be implementing a new filing ribbon for electronically filed and electronically received documents in Civil and Probate case types. This change is in line with the Court’s effort to continuously improve efficiency and provide better service to the public. The filing ribbon will be [...]
The Riverside Superior Court just posted a notice stating that their direct eFax and direct Fax Filing services will be replaced on July 1, 2019 with eSubmit. This change does not affect your over-the-counter PDF/Fax Filings submitted through First Legal. Click here to view the notice. The court also provided a second link to a notice [...]
