The duties of the CIVIL PROCESSING Department are divided into two areas: INTAKE & PROCESSING.
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INTAKE

RECEIVES ALL INCOMING CIVIL DOCUMENTS AND SCANS INTO DIGITAL FORMAT

ASSIGNS SUIT NUMBER (BY YEAR) & DIVISION / JUDGE (RANDOM ALLOTMENT)
- Example: 2024-9961 Div C
- Initial information is entered into case management database
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COLLECTS ADVANCED DEPOSIT REQUIRED TO PROCESS PLEADING / SUITS 
- Payment methods: Cash, Check, Credit Card
- Statements are sent to parties with underfunded requests
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FORWARDS, TRACKS, & RECEIVES PLEADINGS REQUIRING JUDGES SIGNATURE

PROCESSING

ISSUANCE OF THE FOLLOWING:​

- Suit services
- Citations
- Rules
- Temporary restraining orders / protective orders
- Injunctions
- Writs of seizure and sale
- Writs of fifa
- Writs of possessions
- Bench warrants
- Notices of judgment
- Commissions to sell
- Commissions to take inventory
- Subpoenas
- Legal ads as required in suit/successions

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RECORDING OF THE FOLLOWING:

- Money judgments
- Judgments of interdiction
- Judgments of name change
- Wills
- Renunciation
- Judgments conveying title or ownership (judgments of possession)