Fulton Court Launches Child Support E-Filing

Financial Savings, Increased Efficiency and Production

The process of filing new child support claims in Fulton County has been upgraded as the Fulton County Superior Court and the Fulton County Office of Child Support Services have signed on with the Georgia Department of Human Resources and the Administrative Office of the Court’s electronic filing system.

Fulton joins an ever growing list of counties that have converted to electronically filing their new child support cases and claims, adding the largest county in Georgia as well as the largest in child support case claims to the increasingly popular filing system.
     The Georgia DHR-funded Electronic Filing of Court Documents program, also referred to as the Georgia Judicial Exchange (GAJE), is administered and maintained by the AOC.  The program is specifically for child support cases, which make up over 50 percent of most civil cases statewide.
     The Fulton County OCSS, which currently processes in excess of 30,000 child support claims a year, will now be able to offer more efficient filing of important documents as well as increase production of its case loads with a streamlined system that allows every step of submitting a new case to be done electronically instead of manually. 


     With the OCSS’s more timely electronic delivery of cases to Fulton County Superior Court instead of manual deliveries, increased and faster service on issued claims is achieved as well as resolutions for the cases and their participants.


      E-filing saves money for all parties involved through eliminating the need for multiple physical storage locations of papers and documents vital to any given case and the cost of maintaining such places, in addition to personnel hours used in transport of documents. It also cuts back on human error and saves time on corrections of documents that could otherwise hold up the process of having the case filed.    
     The GAJE e-filing program is being adopted throughout Georgia. The program started in 2007 with pilot launches in Bibb and Washington counties and has since been picked up by Chatham, Douglas, Jefferson and Oglethorpe due to its proven track record of increasing the efficiency and timeliness of child support case claims.

 

 
Appointment of Juvenile Court Judge

The Superior Court of Fulton County, Atlanta Judicial Circuit is soliciting applicants for, and input regarding, the appointment of a full time circuit-wide juvenile court judge for the Atlanta Judicial Circuit.  This notice and solicitation is done in accordance with O.C.G.A. § 15-11-18(d) (3), and is occasioned by the tragic death of Judge Sanford J. Jones. 

 

In advance of this appointment, the Judges of the Superior Court of Fulton County seek the application of any qualified persons seeking appointment as a circuit-wide Juvenile Court Judge in the Atlanta Judicial Circuit.  Qualified persons seeking appointment should forward to the Court an expression of their interest in the position as well as an up-to-date résumé or curriculum vitae to the address provided below no later than August 30, 2009.  The statutory qualifications for appointment to this position are established by O.C.G.A. § 15-11-18(e).

 

Also, the Judges of the Superior Court of Fulton County further wish to solicit input from the public, from the bar, and from all other interested persons, entities or agencies regarding this upcoming appointment.

 

All interested parties are requested to submit their input regarding this matter, and qualified persons seeking appointment to this position are requested to send the items set forth above, to the Superior Court of Fulton County, c/o Judith Cramer, Court Administrator, 136 Pryor Street, SW, Suite C-640, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, by August 30, 2009.

 
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