Family Court eFiling Project

About the Program

Category: Information Technology (Best in Category)

Year: 2022

In support of the Clerk of Superior Court (Clerk’s Office) priority to improve access to justice, the Clerk’s Office continues to expand its eFiling capabilities. Working with the Arizona Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) and stakeholders within the Family Court, the Clerk’s Office added Family Court Case Initiation functionality to its eFiling platform as of March 17, 2022. Providing self-represented litigants and attorneys the ability to open new Family Court cases through the statewide eFiling portal improves access to justice by removing barriers, including the costs associated with filing documents in paper, i.e., travel and time required to initiate these cases in person at our filing counters. In addition to the added convenience for filers, adding FC new cases to eFiling increases efficiency by removing the extra work associated with paper filings such as stamping, sorting, and scanning. For the court, new cases are processed more quickly with emergency filings being made available to the court much more quickly than the traditional paper processes.