EFiling

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E-Filing

• Electronic filing of child support petitions is
  the next step in the OTDA/OCA partnership

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E-filing benefits

• Eliminates the need for a paper document transfer
  process between the CSEU and the court
• Reduces delay between petitioner appearance in
  the CSEU office and court docketing
• The petitioner will leave the CSEU office with
• Assurance that the petition has been filed with
  the court
• A court date
• A copy of the filed petition
• A summons that can be used for service (if
  needed)

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Family Court E-Filing Process
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What is required

• Need active CSS case that meets all petition
  requirements
• District must have E-filing capabilities
• Need Client in front of computer
• Must have Signature Pad

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Users will enter the E-filing process through the
Document Generation gtNYS Family Court tab
A new selection for Petition Filing has been
added. For the pilot, this selection will only
be enabled if the user selects a CSS Support
petition.
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The user will determine whether a Court Family
Filing Number (FFN) exists using a modified court
inquiry screen
Users will select a FFN (if any) using this
column
Users will select one of these buttons to continue
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The E-filing process utilizes the existing
support petition process
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E-filing process (continued)
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Users will be asked to select relief sought and
verify the role of each CSMS and UCMS party
This step is only required if the FFN is known.
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Limited scheduling is available
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Completing the process

• E-filing information is transmitted to UCMS
• UCMS validates information and returns a docket
  number
• The petition is generated through ASSETS Document
  Generation
• The petitioner electronically signs the petition
• The signed petition is transmitted back to UCMS

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Completing the process (continued)

• ASSETS receives a confirmation message from UCMS
  
• Message will include the signed petition and
  summons documents
• The user prints out the documents
• Copies are saved to the Family Court Document Log
• The petitioner leaves the office with copies of
  all documents and a court date

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Signature Pad
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Pilot E-filing project

• A pilot project began at Kings County Family
  Court in December 2007
• Pilot is for non-TA initial support petitions
• Three staff are participating in the pilot
• Over 350 e-filings have been successfully
  completed
• Average 6 e-filings per day

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Beyond the NYC pilot

• Expansion to all NYC Family Courts for non-TA
  initial support filings
• Expansion to upstate counties
• Upstate expansion is expected to begin in June
  2008
• Add additional petition types
• Next expected petition type is paternity filings