Rule 16.705 Documents requiring oaths, affirmations, or verifications

If you need to file a document that must be signed under oath, affirmation, or verification, you have two options for signing it electronically. You can sign the paper copy by hand, then scan it and upload it to the court's electronic filing system (EDMS). Or you can use a digitized signature directly on the electronic document.

Either method works the same way legally. The court accepts both a scanned handwritten signature and a digital signature as valid ways to swear to or verify a document. This gives you flexibility in how you complete the signing process while still meeting the legal requirement that the document be properly sworn or verified.