Fannin County District Court Filing Timing and Cure Windows

CRITICALCriminal cases

The clerk may not reject a document solely for a sensitive-data violation, but may identify the error and set a deadline for filing a redacted substitute.

The clerk may not refuse a document that contains sensitive data in violation of these rules or any other statute, rule, or court order. But the clerk may identify the error to be corrected and state a deadline for the party to resubmit a redacted, substitute document.

CRITICALCriminal cases

A document transmitted on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday is deemed filed on the next day that is not one of those days.

if a document is transmitted on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, it is deemed filed on the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday; and

CRITICALCriminal cases

A document that requires a motion and an order authorizing its filing is deemed filed when the motion is granted.

if a document requires a motion and an order allowing its filing, the document is deemed filed on the date the motion is granted.

CRITICALCriminal cases

Absent a specified time-of-day deadline, an electronic filing is timely when submitted before midnight in the court's time zone on the deadline day and is deemed filed upon transmission to the filer's service provider.

Unless a statute, rule, or court order requires that a document be filed by a certain time of day, a document is considered timely filed if it is electronically filed at any time before midnight (in the court's time zone) on the day of the filing deadline. An electronically filed document is deemed filed when transmitted to the filing party's electronic filing service provider, except:

WARNINGCriminal cases

A filing party may seek appropriate court relief when a technical failure or system outage causes an untimely filing.

If a document is untimely filed due to a technical failure or a system outage, the filing party may seek appropriate relieffrom the court.

WARNINGCriminal cases

The clerk may not refuse a nonconforming document, but may identify an error and set a deadline for resubmission in conforming format.

The clerk may not refuse a document that fails to conform to these rules. But the clerk may identify the error to be corrected and state a deadline for the party to resubmit the document in a conforming format.

CRITICALCivil cases

Parties must complete the seminar within 60 days of the earlier of filing the petition or motion to modify or receiving notice, and in any event before a hearing on temporary orders.

The parties are ordered to successfully complete said seminar within sixty (60) days of either (a) the filing of the petition or motion to modify or (b) the receipt of notice of the petition or motion, whichever comes first, or prior to any hearing on temporary orders.

WARNINGCriminal cases

Deadline

72 hours

The purpose of the deadline is to allow for a non-conforming document to be confonned to these rules. The deadline for correction established by the clerk should permit only a reasonable amount of time to allow for the filing to be conformed to the requirements of these rules, and, in general, the deadline should not exceed 72 hours.

The purpose of the deadline is to allow for a non-conforming document to be confonned to these rules. The deadline for correction established by the clerk should permit only a reasonable amount of time to allow for the filing to be conformed to the requirements of these rules, and, in general, the deadline should not exceed 72 hours.

WARNINGCriminal cases

Weekend or legal-holiday acceptance by the clerk does not affect whether a document was timely filed.

Comment to Rule 2.3: This rule addresses when a document is timely filed for purposes of meeting a legal deadline imposed by a statute or a court. A clerk's acceptance of a document on a weekend or legal holiday does not impact whether a document is timely filed under this rule.