Rule 16.802 Emergency applications

If you need a court order right away and can't file it electronically because you or the court doesn't have the technology available at that moment, you can bring the application to the court on paper instead. This gives people a way to get urgent help from the court even when computers, scanners, or internet access aren't working or available.

But paper filing in an emergency is just a temporary fix. You still need to make sure the application gets into the electronic court system later. This means either filing it electronically yourself once you have access to the right technology, or having someone scan the paper document into the case file. The goal is to make sure the emergency application eventually becomes part of the official electronic case record, even though it started on paper.