Rule 92.4 - Registered Filers(a)Registration required. Any person who is permitted or required under Rule 92.3 to file electronically must register by obtaining a user name and password through the electronic filing system website in accordance with 92.4(b) or (c). Registration constitutes consent to electronic service of all documents or information filed in accordance with these rules.(b)Method of registration by attorneys and Unrepresented Parties. An attorney in good standing in the State of Maine, any other person who is permitted to file documents electronically, or an Unrepresented Party who elects to do so, may register on the electronic filing system website by submitting all information required by the Probate Court on the registration screens displayed on the website, including: (1) his or her mailing address; (2) his or her Bar number; (3) his or her billing information; and (4) up to three e-mail addresses, one of which is an e-mail account currently maintained by the attorney. The addresses provided shall be listed on the probate website and are the addresses to which all service, notice, or other communication submitted must be sent. Once an attorney has become a Registered Filer pursuant to this subdivision in any matter, he or she shall remain a Registered Filer for all matters in the Probate Court until he or she terminates his or her registration pursuant to Rule 92.4(h).(c)Method of registration by out-of-state attorneys and other filers. An attorney in good standing in another jurisdiction who is admitted pro hac vice under applicable rules of procedure or administrative orders and any other person who is required under Rule 92.3 to file documents electronically must register on the electronic filing system website by submitting all information required by the Probate Court on the registration screens displayed on the website, including (1) his or her mailing address; (2) his or her billing information; and (3) up to three e-mail addresses, one of which is an e-mail account currently maintained by the applicant. The addresses provided shall be listed on the Probate website in connection with the docket number assigned to that matter, must be listed on all filings by that Registered Filer and are the addresses to which all service, notice, or other communication submitted must be sent. A Registered Filer under this subdivision (c) shall remain a Registered Filer, as defined by the docket number (including all sub-matter numbers thereunder) assigned to that matter.(d)Duties of Registered Filer. A Registered Filer shall, in any matter in which the filer has appeared in accordance with the applicable rules of procedure and has submitted his or her user name and password: (1) File documents electronically as provided in Rule 92.5 and access or download any such documents remotely;(2) Access or download documents, as provided in Rule 92.10, which have been filed by any other party or the court.(e)Use of agents. An attorney who is a Registered Filer may permit an associated attorney or legal assistant to file documents under the Registered Filer's user name and password. The Registered Filer is responsible for all such filings.(f)Filings by court personnel. Judges and other authorized court personnel or officers may file court-generated documents and access or download documents that have been filed in any matter without becoming a Registered Filer.(g)Reports. A Guardian ad litem, visitor, psychologist, physician or mediator who are required to file a report in a proceeding, may file court-generated forms and access or download forms that are required to be filed in that matter without becoming a Registered Filer.(h)Unregistering. A Registered Filer may "unregister" as a Registered Filer by deactivating his or her account on the Electronic Filing System.(i)Updating contact information. It is the responsibility of a Registered Filer to maintain updated contact information (mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, etc.) in the electronic filing system.(j)Required unregistration. In the case of a Maine attorney who is inactive, retired, disbarred or suspended, such attorney shall be required to withdraw as a Registered Filer under Rule 92.4(h).Adopted April 13, 2012, effective 5/1/2012; October 7, 2014, effective 11/1/2014; amended July 18, 2018, effective 1/1/2019.Advisory Committee Note - November 2011
The procedures for registering to file documents electronically are outlined in 92.4(b) and 92.4(c). A Maine attorney will remain registered until he or she terminates registration pursuant to 92.4(h). It is expected that once a Maine attorney registers, he or she will remain a Registered Filer and will not enter into and exit from the Electronic Filing System.. Others who are permitted to file electronically will remain registered for the duration of the Probate Court matter for which he or she registered. A Registered Filer is responsible for updating contact information under 92.4(i).
Associate attorneys and legal assistants of a registered attorney may file under the user name and password of the registered attorney pursuant to 92.4(e).
Registration to file and to access and download forms and documents electronically is not required of judges and authorized court personnel or of guardians ad litem, visitors, psychologists, physicians and mediators pursuant to 92.4(f) and (g).
Advisory Note - January 2019
The term "Unrepresented Party" replaces the term "self-represented party" in Rule 92.4(b).