Civil district court for the parish of orleans subpoena

AFTER HOURS FILING The Clerk's Office has an employee on call from 5:00 PM to midnight, on weekdays, weekends, and holidays. After hours filings and filings on holidays must be limited to cases which urgently need to be filed, i.e., Injunctions, Sequestrations, suits which will prescribe, etc. Please call (504) 407-0000 . You will be connected with the answering service who will contact the employee on call.

(1) Docket 1 -- Successions
(2) Docket 4 -- Writs and Seizures
(3) Docket 5 --Domestic
(4) Appeals
(5) New Suits
(6) Trial Dockets
(7) Default Judgments

The Clerk's Office accepts filings through facsimile. In accordance with LSA-R.S. 13:850 the following must be received within seven (7) days, exclusive of legal holidays, for the facsimile filing to have full force and effect:

(1) The original signed document.
(2) All applicable filing fees must be enclosed with the original.
(3) An additional $5.00 facsimile transmission fee must be enclosed for each document transmitted plus an additional $2.50 per page for transmissions in excess of two (2) pages.
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FILING FEES

The Clerk of Civil District Court charges non-refundable filing fees. The current fee schedule is provided below. Filing fees are established by the Court sitting En Banc. Parties seeking to litigate without payment of these fees may do so by applying to proceed "In Forma Pauperis". The pauper form must be filled out.