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CIVIL PROCESSING
The duties of the CIVIL PROCESSING Department are divided into two areas: INTAKE & PROCESSING.
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
COLLECTS ADVANCED DEPOSIT REQUIRED TO PROCESS PLEADING / SUITS
- Payment methods: Cash, Check, Credit Card
- Statements are sent to parties with underfunded requests
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
RECORDING OF THE FOLLOWING:
- Money judgments
- Judgments of interdiction
- Judgments of name change
- Wills
- Renunciation
- Judgments conveying title or ownership (judgments of possession)
CONTACT CIVIL PROCESSING
To Direct Dial, call 337-437-3558
INTAKE Clerks Ext 141
Family Court Clerks Ext 100
PROCESSING Clerks Ext 112
Domestic Clerks Ext 145
Appeals Clerks Ext 111
TO FAX FILE 337-437-3206
FORMS & RESOURCES
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