Rule 14 Filing and service by facsimile transmission

If you're involved in a financial exploitation case, you can send court documents by fax instead of delivering them in person or mailing them. This includes things like pleadings (the formal written statements in a case) and requests for hearings.

You can fax these documents to the circuit clerk's office to file them with the court. You can also fax documents to law enforcement authorities when they need to be served with paperwork. This gives people a faster way to get documents where they need to go, especially when time matters in these cases.

There are specific technical rules you have to follow when faxing documents. These rules are found in the Trial Court Rules, specifically Rules 12.03, 12.04, and 12.05. Those rules cover details like what counts as proper fax transmission and how to confirm the documents were received.