GENERAL INFO.	The typical steps when filing any motion or application are: · Click on the “Motions/Applications” hyperlink under Bankruptcy or the “Motions” hyperlink under Adversary · Enter the case number on the “File a Motion/Application” case number screen. · Select the type of motion being filed from the selection box · Bypass or choose “Joint Filing” (if yes, pick joint attorney from list) · Select or search for and select the client you represent (occasionally you may actually need to add your client) and change their role type to the appropriate type · Associate yourself to client (only the first time a pleading is filed) · Browse and select the motion .pdf image · Browse and attach the proposed order .pdf image · Accept the deadline for objections or set a hearing · Enter the fee payment info if not paying by credit card via the Internet (if there is a filing fee for the pleading) · Modify the docket text if necessary · Submit the motion to the court · Enter credit card info and print receipt (if there is a filing fee for the pleading) · Print and/or save a copy of the “Notice of Electronic Filing” NOTE: There are separate instructions for filing a motion that also requests other relief as an alternative to relief from stay. Those kinds of motions are referred to as “Multi-Part Motions”. The instructions below are specifically for filing a simple “Motion For Relief From Stay”.
HELP SCREENS	Help is available for most screens by clicking on the button. The help box will display describing the fields and what entry is required for the window you are currently viewing. Click on the button at the upper right hand corner of the screen or the button to close the help screen.
STEP 1	Log in to the CM/ECF System using your ECF Login and Password if you aren’t already logged in. NOTE: After logging in, if you click on Netscape Navigator’s (resize) button accidentally instead of clicking the minimize button, or if you drag the sides to resize the Netscape window, there is a Netscape Navigator bug which will throw you out of your CM/ECF session and you will lose all the information that you have entered up to that point. So, resize the window before you login!
STEP 2	Click on “Bankruptcy” in the blue menu bar at the top of the screen.
STEP 3	Click on the hyperlink in the categories list.
STEP 4	The “File a Motion/Application ” case number screen will display next. It may contain the case number of the last case you have been using during the current login session. Change the case number if necessary, and then click the button. If you need to change the case number, enter the correct case number as yy-nnnnn (including the hyphen). NOTE: If you changed the case number and entered it incorrectly, the system will display the following message regarding the case number format. Click the button or the button and try entering the case number again.
STEP 5	The “File a Motion/Application” selection box appears. Navigate down to the “Relief from Stay” entry by typing “r” four times (in its current position) or by using the scroll bar.
STEP 6	Click the button.
STEP 7	The opportunity to include information about whether the pleading is being filed jointly with another attorney will now appear. If you are filing jointly, follow the steps set out in the separate instructions on the “Joint Filing Option”. Click the button for this training because the motion is not being filed jointly.
STEP 8	A screen similar to the following “Select the Party:” screen will now display. If your client is already in the list of parties, you simply click on their name to highlight and select them as shown in the example below. Then, click the button and finish filing the pleading because no searching or adding will be necessary. NOTE: If this is the first pleading you have filed on behalf of your client in a debtor’s bankruptcy case, they will NOT be in the list of party filers for the case unless someone else has previously filed a pleading on behalf of your client in the case. Click the hyperlink If your client is not already in the list of parties in the case. In your training case, National City Bank will not be in the list, so you will have to click on the hyperlink to search for them. NOTE: Although the hyperlink is labeled “Add/Create New Party”, what you are really doing is searching for a party that likely already exists and only adding them if they do not already exist in the party records table.
STEP 9	A “Party search results” screen similar to the one below will display next. Follow the separate instructions on “Searching For and Selecting or Adding Your Client” to search for National City Bank.
STEP 10	Click the button once your party has been selected or added and highlighted in the list.
STEP 11	NOTE: Even though you just searched for and selected or added your client, CM/ECF will not automatically create an association between you and the party. If you have never filed a pleading for this party in this case, or if different counsel previously represented your client in this case, you will have to create an association between yourself and your client. In the example below, “Grace Dupree” is filing a pleading on behalf of “National City Bank”. This is the first time “Grace Dupree” has filed anything in this case on behalf of “Community Bank”, so it will be necessary for her to tell the CM/ECF system that this is her client. Create the association between yourself and “National City Bank” by clicking in the small square box with your mouse to insert a check mark into the box as shown above.
STEP 12	Click the button to move past the attorney/party association screen to the rest of the screens required to file your pleading.
STEP 13	You then have an opportunity to browse for and select the .pdf image of the “Motion for Relief from Stay”. Follow the separate instructions for “Browsing For and Selecting the Correct .pdf Document” to find, open, review, and select the “Motion for Relief from Stay” .pdf image. For the training case, the .pdf documents will be on the local “c:/” drive. NOTE: At your law firm, the .pdf documents may be stored on a network drive or on the “c:/” drive of a staff member’s computer.
.PDF WARNING MESSAGE	If you click on the button to advance without attaching a .pdf document, a “Warning Message” will be displayed. Click the button to close the message. You will then, once again, have the opportunity to browse to select the .pdf image of the document.
ATTACH-MENTS	The legal mind thinks of an attachment as any supporting document(s) stapled or attached to the back of the main pleading. These types of legal attachments will be referred to in this documentation as “supporting documentation”. In the USBC EDKY, the “attachment” feature is used in only two situations: (1) when the main pleading, plus any supporting documentation is more than 50 pages in length, and (2) for attaching proposed orders.
STEP 14	After browsing for and selecting the .pdf image of the motion, click in the “Attachments”, “Yes”, radio button to change the selection from “No” to “Yes”. Then, follow the separate instructions for “Adding Attachments” to attach the .pdf image of the proposed order.
STEP 15	The following receipt screen will display next. Simply click the button, if you will be paying the filing fee using a credit card via the internet. Type “ck” in the receipt number box and then click the button, if you are paying by check, money order or cash instead of credit card. If you are paying by check, money order or cash, the payment needs to be received by the court within 24 hours of the filing. For the training case, leave the field empty and click the button.
STEP 16	The opportunity to set a deadline or a hearing now displays. See the separate instructions on “Setting Deadlines and Hearings” to accept the “Last day to file Objections” deadline as displayed.
STEP 17	An opportunity to modify the docket text will appear next. NOTE: CM/ECF is a database program, not a word processor. This means that as you click the next button to move from one screen to the next, the default data and any changes or additions that you make to a screen is immediately stored in a table in the background. This is true even though you have not yet clicked on the final button to submit the entry to the court. So, you usually should NOT make changes on this screen even though you could change everything on this screen. For example, if you changed “National City Bank” to “First Federal”, the docket text summary would be sent out by e-mail indicating that you represent “First Federal”, but the court’s tables used in various reports and queries would indicate that you represent “National City Bank” because that was the party that you selected on the “Select the Party” screen. Since anyone who wishes to know more about the pleading can view the entire pleading at anytime using the document number hyperlink on the docket report, it is also generally not necessary to add further description to the text. EXCEPTION: If this were an amended motion, you would need to type the word “Amended” before “Motion for Relief from Stay”.
STEP 18	Click the button after making any necessary modifications to text.
FINAL DOCKET TEXT SCREEN	The “Docket Text: Final Text” window displays. NOTE: The “Attention!!” message shown above is to alert you to the fact that this is the point of no return! This is the last opportunity to make any changes before the document is officially filed.
NOTES RE: ERRORS MADE WHILE FILING	If the docket text is incorrect, click on the browser’s button as many times as necessary to find the error and correct it. NOTE: You will not be able to use the button to correct your errors if you are using Internet Explorer 5.5 because you will be thrown out of the system the 2^nd time you click it. You will need to click on the “Bankruptcy “ hyperlink in the main menu bar. Then, you will have to start filing the motion all over again and you will have lost most of the information that you have entered. NOTE: If using Netscape Version 4.7, you can usually go backwards and forwards through the various screens using the browser’s “Back” and “Forward” buttons without losing any data as long as you make no changes. But, if you make a change, the information on the screens from the point of the error forward will have to be re-entered after you have corrected the error because the information from the error forward will have been lost. Also, if you back up to a screen earlier than the screen where you search for the .pdf document, you will lose the .pdf document and you will have to search for the .pdf document and select it all over again.
STEP 19	Click the button.
STEP 20	The “Summary of Current Charges” screen now displays. Click the button and follow the separate instructions for “Payment of Fees Via the Internet”, if you wish to go ahead and pay the filing fee immediately. Click the button, if you wish to pay all the filing fees for a particular day all at once near the end of the day. Later, when you desire to pay all your accumulated filing fees for the day, follow the separate instructions for “Payment of Fees Via the Internet”.
NOTICE OF ELEC- TRONIC FILING	After you have continued the filing or completed the payment process, the “Notice of Electronic Filing” will now display. See the separate instructions regarding “Notices of Electronic Filing”.