Minimum Standards for Electronic Filing – Your Guide to PeachCourt

Statewide Minimum Standards for Electronic Filing – Judicial Council of Georgia

Adopted by the Judicial Council of Georgia on September 25, 2014.

Pro Tips for Civil eFiling

Bibb State:
Cases initiated before August 1, 2016, have 5-digit case numbers.

Brantley Superior:
This Office does not send Proposed Orders or Motions to the Judge.

Chattooga Superior:
The clerk’s office does not accept eFiled proposed orders.

Cobb State:
When searching for a case with 3 or more digits at the end of the case number, include dashes. For cases with fewer than 3 digits at the end of the case number, do not include dashes.

PeachCourt includes garnishment cases only for 2018 and later.

Cobb Superior:
The clerk’s office does not accept eFiled proposed orders.

Columbia Superior:
Executed (signed) orders can be eFiled only by the signing judge or that judge’s designee. Attorneys may present executed orders to the clerk’s office in person for filing.

Coweta Superior:
The clerk will assess a fee of $0.50 per page for any eFiling that includes more than 50 pages. This fee is separate from the sheriff’s service packet fee.

Fayette Superior:
A contempt case will receive a case number similar to the original (related) case number, plus a letter designation at the end.

Lamar Superior:
If the sheriff’s service packet amounts to more than 10 pages, the clerk will require the filer to deliver a paper copy of the service documents to the clerk’s office.

Paulding Superior:
The clerk will assess a fee of $0.50 per page for any eFiling that includes more than 50 pages. This fee is separate from the sheriff’s service packet fee.

Tattnall Superior:
The clerk’s office does not coordinate sheriff’s service. Filers need to deliver service documents directly to the sheriff’s office.

Worth Superior:
The fee for preparing the sheriff’s service packet is $1.00 per page.