The court rules require that a proposed order and service list be included with a motion or petition requesting action by the court. The court may need to edit the proposed order and service list, so the filer is required to email a non-write-protected version of the proposed order* and service list in Word format (i.e., a version that can be modified and/or edited) to ProbateDivisionEfiling [at] dcsc.gov (ProbateDivisionEfiling[at]dcsc[dot]gov). The proposed order and the service list should be attached to the email as two separate documents, and the service list must indicate the method by which each party should be served with the order (e.g., eServed or served by mail). When the proposed order and service list are emailed, the subject line of the email must begin with the case number, followed by the eFile date and then the title of the pleading (e.g., 2014 ADM 000001, eFiled 01/05/2014, Petition for relief).

*There is one exception: Proposed orders downloaded from the court’s website are in PDF format and may be emailed as a PDF. The service list, however, should be created in Word and attached to the email as a Word document.