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Common Pleas Court On-Line HelpGo to the e-Filing website homepage https://efiling.franklincountyohio.gov/ and look for the link to “Request Account”. This will take you through a series of screens that will ask you questions. The first screen will ask you to review the User Agreement established by the County. To continue you must select the radio button and indicate that you accept the terms of the user agreement, by pressing the “Submit” button.
After you accept the terms of the user agreement, you will be asked to identify your user role. Click the radio button by your role and click on Next.
Note: With Pro Se parties being the exception, each user is associated within the system to a law firm, company, or other entity. From the “Existing” dropdown, select the law firm, company, or other entity with which you are associated if it exists. The dropdown list contains those organizations currently registered in eFlex. If your organization is not listed, click the second radio button, type in your law firm's name, and then click Submit.
The next screen has several fields to fill out. An asterisk next to a field indicates that the information is required. You choose your own username and password. Your username must be unique. If the username you enter is not unique when you submit your request, you will be prompted to select a different username. Once all the information is completed, a request to approve your account will be given to the Administrator. As soon as the Administrator approves your account you will receive an email message at the email address you provided with your registration information.During the summer of 2011, all pleadings, motions, briefs, memoranda of law, depositions, transcripts, transcripts and records of proceedings, orders and other documents submitted in designated mandatory e-File case types shall be filed electronically through the e-Filing System. The Clerk shall not accept for filing or file any documents in paper format in mandatory e-File case types from litigants represented by counsel.
Parties shall electronically file their documents by registering to use the Court’s e-Filing System. If a party does not have internet access, the party can use the Clerk's public access computer stations to register to use the e-Filing System and to then file his/her documents electronically.
Because they require being submitted with a cash or check payable to the garnishee, Garnishments will be handled outside the eFlex system. Civil Stalking and Sexually Oriented Offense Protection Orders will also be handled outside the eFlex system at this time.