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Interpreting Your Filing Receipt

County: 61 - 61 is the designation of the Talladega County Circuit Court, where I file all my uncontested divorces.

Case Number: - The letters "DR" indicate that this is a Domestic Relations case. The next four digits state the year in which the case was first filed. The next six digits are assigned to cases sequentially. No one else will have these six digits in their case number in Talladega County. All case numbers filed electronically have two digits after the period, reserved for post-divorce filings.

Style: - The first party named is the plaintiff in your case, and the second party named is the defendant.

Document Filed: - "Answer/Waiver Divorce" is the efiling system's term for an uncontested divorce. "Modification" is the designation for a Joint Petition to Modify for a case that's already decided.

Electronic Document Stamp: - The first 14 digits are your case number you already identified above, but without all those helpful hyphens and periods. The next 10 digits (including the slashes) state the date on which I filed your complaint, written in the format most of us are accustomed to using for dates. The next 11 digits (including colons and spaces) state the time I filed your complaint and whether it was AM or PM, again written in the format most of us are accustomed to using for stating time down to the second. The remainder of this line is the unique identifier the efile system assigned to your case filing. I don't make any attempt to decipher it and don't know of any reason you would need to either.

The following Documents were attached to this filing: - The box after this statement lists the attachments to the filing.

Certificate of Divorce - This is a statistical form I prepare for your divorce case. If you're curious, you can see what a blank form looks like here.

CS Information Sheet - This is another form I prepare. If you're curious, you can see what a blank form looks like here.

Withholding Order - This is an order the court requires me to file whenever there is child support to be paid and when the person paying it has a job other than self-employment. This does not mean the order is going to take effect. Only if you have specifically asked for the child support to be taken from the obligor's check will this order actually be served on the employer. If not, this order will simply sit in the court's file.

MISC. DOCUMENT - All Docs - This refers to the fact that I attached all the required documents for your case at one time rather than supplying them to the court one at a time. The location is the place on my computer's hard drive where that document is stored. Can't understand for the life of me why efile or anybody else should need to know where on my computer I have your documents stored, but now you (and they) know.

Notice of this filing must be served on the following parties: - This will be followed by the name and address of the defendant in your case. It's misleading, because it gives the impression the sheriff is going to go see the defendant. That's not the case. I waive service on all my uncontested divorces, meaning the defendant signs an answer before I file anything. This does away with the need for any separate service of process. You should see a reference on the right that says "No Service Required."

Finally, because this page talks about my legal practice, I'm going to include that phrase we must use with anything that might be construed as advertising. No representation is made that the quality of the legal services to be performed is greater than the quality of legal services performed by other lawyers.