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Galveston County Rules and Standing Order of the Probate Court Concerning the Electronic Filing of Court Documents — Galveston County. The operative requirements are quoted verbatim from the governing document (registered/posted posted); the document in custody is the controlling text.
Texas > Galveston County > Probate Court
A Convenience Fee charged by the County Clerk will be considered. as a courtcost. … SULLIVAN, COUNTY CLERK GALVESTON COUNTY~AS ~L~ Monica Cavazos Deputy Rule 2.2 Application to Pro Se Litigano The term "counsel" shall apply to an individual litigant in the event a party appears pro se. … Documents Cnntaining Signatures (a) A document that is required to be verified, notarized, acknowledged, sworn to, or made under oath may be electronically filed only as a scanned image. … (b) To become registered to electronically file documents, filers must follow registration procedures outlined by Texas.gov. … A filer filing or serving a document must have a valid account with an EFSP and with Texas.gov (d) Consistent with standards promulgated by the Judicial Committee on Information Technology (J'CfT), Texas.gov will specify the permissible formats tor documents that will beelectronically filed and electronically served. … This fee will be in addition to regular filing fees. … This fee will be in addition to regular filing fees and will be in an amount not to exceed the amount approved by the Department of Information Resources Board. … This fee will be in addition to regular filing fees, credit card fees, or other fees. … Rule 4.2 Signatures (a) Upon completion ofthe 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 tile documents. … Ifa document is electronically transmitted to the filers EFSP and is electronically transmitted on or before the last day fur filing the same. the document. ifreceived by the county clerk not more than ten days tardily, shall be filed by the county clerk and deemed filed in time. … (c) On receipt ofa filer's document, the filers EFSP must send the document to Texas.gov in the required electronic file format along with an indication ofthe time the ",'il" d", " -r ',: , "it" }-'. 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',"~ ':(1<':~ /:~, >,>,:,-. - , This above is a full, true, and correct photographic copy of the orlglhaJ'r';:ord:~b'w,iti\py faMul tfustody ·t,tndpossession, as the same is recorded in the Official Public Records of Probate Court in my office. . , ' :-;7;7f ~ DWIGHT D. … The acknowledgment will note the date and time that the electronically-transmitted document was received by Texas.gov, (d) Upon receiving a document from a filer's EFSP, Texas.gov shall electronically transmit the document to the county clerk. … (e) Not later than the first business day after receiving a document from Texas.gov, the county clerk shall decide whether the document will be accepted for filing. … The county clerk shall accept the document tor filing provided that the document is not misdirected and complies with all filing requirements. … The county clerk shall handle electronically- transmitted documents that are filed in connection with an affidavit ofinability to afford court costs in the manner required by TEX. … (I) If the document is accepted for filing, the county clerk shall note the date and time of tiling which, with the exception ofsubsection (h) below, shall be the date and time that the filer transmitted the document to the filer's EFSP. … The county clerk shall inform Texas.gov ofits action the same day action is taken. … Texas.gov shall, on that same day, electronically transmit to the filer's EFSP a "confirmation" that the document has been accepted for filing by the county clerk. … (g) If the document is not accepted for filing, the county clerk shall inform Texas.gov of its action,andthe reasonforsuch action,the sameday action is taken. … Texas.gov shall, on that same day, electronically transmit to the filer's EFSP an "alert" that the document was not accepted along with the reason the document was not accepted. … (h) Except in cases ofinjunction, attachment. garnishment, sequestration, or distress proceedings, documents that serve to commence a civil suit will not be deemedto have been filed on Sunday when the document is electronically transmitted to the filer's EFSP, Texas.gov, or the county clerk on Sunday. … Such documents will be deemed to have been tiled on the succeeding Monday. … 57, a filer must include an e-mail address on any electronically-filed document. … Rule 4.S DO<'ument Format (a) Electronically-filed documents must be computer-formatted as specified by Texas.gov. … Electronically-filed doeuments must also be formatted for printing on S!I,- inch by II-inch paper. … Rule 5.2 Completion of Service and Date of Service (a) Electronic service shall be complete upon transmission ofthe document by the filer to the party at the party's e-mail address. … (b) Except as provided by subsection (c) below, the date ofservice shall be the date the electronic service is complete. … (recipient's time), then the date of service shall be deemed to be the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday. …
Reviewer note: Operative mandatory-language provisions quoted verbatim from the posted document; the full document (sha256 474f783dfd36…) is the controlling text.
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