Resolved: The E-Filing website is back up.

Due to the E-Filing website being exceptionally slow this morning, the system will go offline for approximately 10 minutes.

Resolved: The E-Filing website is back up.

Due to the E-Filing website being exceptionally slow this morning, the system will go offline for approximately 10 minutes at noon.

Resolved at 12:30 PM: You may resume filing

Due to the number of filings being submitted currently the document processor is struggling to keep up with the submissions and is resulting in errors. 

We recommend temporarily halting attempts to resubmit filings at this time as our document processor catches up.

Resolved as of 11:46 AM: The E-Filing system is back up and running. If you receive an error notification you may resubmit your filing.

If you paid a fee with an errored filing please DO NOT PAY AGAIN. Use a fee waiver. Instructions to resubmit errored filings are available here.

11:40 AM: Due to a lock in the system causing issues with submissions, the E-Filing system will be offline for 5-10 minutes.

Resolved: The District Courts and Limited Jurisdiction Courts are back up.

There is currently an issue with the District Courts and Limited Jurisdiction Courts case managment system. It is being worked on as quickly as possible. In the meantime, District Court cases and City, Justice, Municipal Court cases may not be viewed or filed on. Filing at the Montana Supreme Court is unaffected by this issue.

Update 3:50 PM: The vast majority of e-filings are moving through the system without error, although there are still some occassional errors due to our document processor. If you received an error notification, please resubmit your filing.

We are aware of users receiving error messages in E-Filing after submitting filings. We are currently looking into the issue and will provide an update as soon as possible.

UPDATE 4:40PM. We are seeing an improvement with filings successfully submitting. If you received an error notification you may resubmit your filing. We are continuing to monitor the e-filing system closely.

Update 4:10PM: In an effort to resolve E-Filing issues, the system will go offline briefly.

We are aware of users receiving error messages in E-Filing. We are currently looking into the issue and will provide an update as soon as possible.

An additional Filing Type Motion - Unopposed has been enabled in E-Filing.

If you are filing a Motion that is unopposed, please use this new Filing Type and select the appropriate Filing Subtype.

Resolved as of 8:00am: If you received an error notification you may resubmit your filing.

If you paid a fee with an errored filing please DO NOT PAY AGAIN. Use a fee waiver. Instructions to resubmit errored filings are available here.

We are aware of users receiving error messages in E-Filing. We are currently looking into the issue and will provide an update as soon as possible.

There is a problem with the District Court case management system currently, so the e-filing system is unable to connect to District Court cases. While the problem persists, you will be unable to search for District Court cases or file on cases at District Court level.

There is no problem e-filing at City, Municipal, Justice, or the Montana Supreme Court. Posted 3:45 PM

Attention e-filers who use Google Docs to create your documents:

We have recently discovered that documents that are created in Google Docs and then saved in PDF format are resulting in an error when submitted in E-Filing. We are exploring solutions with our vendor for this issue.

Until we have a resolution, if you create your documents in Google Docs please save them in Word format. The system will still convert your Word document into a PDF format once it's been submitted.

Resolved as of 3:10pm: The E-Filing system is back up. If you received an error notification you may resubmit your filing.

The E-Filing system is currently offline while we try to resolve issues with the document processor.

We are aware of users receiving error messages in E-Filing. We are currently looking into the issue and will provide an update as soon as possible.

There are intermittent e-filing errors this morning. We are working on resolving the issue. We will update this post when resolved. You will receive an error notification if your filing needs to be resubmitted.

12:40PM: The website will be temporarily unavailable as part of the e-filing mechanism is rebooted.

UPDATE: 1:02PM. This has been resolved. We are continuing to monitor the e-filing system closely.

Resolved at 11:10 AM and again at 11:57 AM. There is currently an issue connecting the E-Filing website to District Courts' case management system. You are not currently able to file at District Courts or view District Court cases. 

We are looking into the issue and will update this post when resolved. The problem only affects District Courts. Supreme, Justice, City, and Municipal Courts are connected to e-filing, and you may continue filing on cases at these courts as normal.

Update: Resolved around 5:20pm 11/22/2024.

We are seeing an improvement with filings successfully submitting as of 4:00PM. 

Currently the majority of e-filings submitted are resulting in errors. We have gotten our software vendor involved, but the expected resolution timeline is unknown. The measures we’ve taken to resolve system issues this morning have been unsuccessful thus far. We’ll update this post when we have a resolution or expected resolution timeline.

We are aware of users receiving error messages, since 3:55 PM, in E-Filing. We are currently looking into the issue and will provide an update as soon as possible.

UPDATE: Resolved as of 4:10 PM.

We are aware of users receiving error messages in E-Filing. We are currently looking into the issue, and will provide an update as soon as possible.

At around 4:30 the e-filing website will be temporarily unavialable as we restart the application.

Resolved at 10:47AM: We are aware that users are receiving errors while attempting to use the E-Filing system. You may encounter that the system is totally unavailable as we stop and start servers while troubleshooting the system.

This has been resolved. If you received an error notification you may resubmit your filing.

If you paid a fee with an errored filing please DO NOT PAY AGAIN. Use a fee waiver. Instructions to resubmit errored filings are available here.

Resolved at 11:40AM: There is a problem with the operating speed of the e-filing system this morning. Web pages are problematically slow to load or unresponsive.

The e-filing database will be restarted today at 11:30AM. The system will briefly go offline at 11:30AM, and then we anticipate an improvement in performance by noon.

*Note: The restart was initially scheduled for noon, but moved up to 11:30AM.

The e-filing system is being brought down for emergency maintenance at 1:15PM today, 9/16/24. We expect to have the system back up again by 1:25 PM today.

Resolved as of 2:08 PM. E-Filing is currently down beginning at 1:40 PM. We are currently working on resolving the issue as quickly as we can.

Resolved at 10:20 am. There is currently an issue connecting the E-Filing website to District Courts' case management system. You are not currently able to file at District Courts or view District Court cases. 

We are looking into the issue and will update this post when resolved. The problem only affects District Courts. Supreme, Justice, City, and Municipal Courts are connected to e-filing, and you may continue filing on cases at these courts as normal.

Resolved. If you received an error notification you may resubmit your filing.

If you paid a fee with an errored filing please DO NOT PAY AGAIN. Use a fee waiver. Instructions to resubmit errored filings are available here.

We are aware of users receiving error messages when submitting filings in E-Filing. We are currently looking into the issue, and will provide an update as soon as possible.

If you receive an error notification you may resubmit your filing.

If you paid a fee with an errored filing please DO NOT PAY AGAIN. Use a fee waiver. Instructions to resubmit errored filings are available here.

We are aware of users receiving error messages when submitting filings in E-Filing. We are currently looking into the issue, and will provide an update as soon as possible.

There is scheduled maintenance between 6:00 AM to 6:30 AM. The system will be unavailable during this time.

If you receive an error notification you may resubmit your filing.

If you paid a fee with an errored filing please DO NOT PAY AGAIN. Use a fee waiver. Instructions to resubmit errored filings are available here.

All documents submitted since 8:48 AM have errored. We are currently working on finding a resolution for the problem. We will post updates once we have more information.

Please temporarily halt submitting e-filings until this is resolved.

CitePayUSA, the third party service provider that the courts use to collect statutory filings fees through E-Filing, is currently down. You will be unable to submit any filings with fees until this is resolved. We are still working with the vendor to get an idea how long this will be an issue. We will update this post once we have more details.

This was resolved at about 8:23 AM.

The Case Management System for Justice Courts, City Courts, and Municipal Courts is currently down, and subsequently, E-Filing at those courts is also unavailable. We will update this notice once it’s available.

Additional case types have been enabled for e-filing in the District Courts:

Adoption (DA), Paternity (DF), Guardianship/Conservatorship/Trust (DG), Probate (DP), and Search Warrant (SW)

There is currently an issue connecting the E-Filing website to District Courts' case management system. You are not currently able to file at District Courts or view District Court cases. 

We are looking into the issue and will update this post when resolved. The problem only affects District Courts. Supreme, Justice, City, and Municipal Courts are connected to e-filing, and you may continue filing on cases at these courts as normal.

Due to multiple outages over the last couple of weeks, we feel it’s necessary to provide an update about E-Filing. 

The main issue that we are dealing with is very large filings getting stuck while processing. While e-filers are required to keep their individual documents under 20 MB, there is no limit to the combined size of all your documents in a single e-filing. Recently, when the combined file size of all your documents exceeds 70 MB in a single filing, it causes the system to fail for all users. Because of this, we ask a favor from you. Please, if you are going to submit a filing where all the documents add up to more than 60 MB, please submit the documents in two separate filings.

Resolved as of 8:05AM. If you received an error notification you may now resubmit your filing.

If you paid a fee with an errored filing please DO NOT PAY AGAIN. Use a fee waiver. Instructions to resubmit errored filings are available here.

Resolved as of 1:50PM. If you received an error notification you may now resubmit your filing.

If you paid a fee with an errored filing please DO NOT PAY AGAIN. Use a fee waiver. Instructions to resubmit errored filings are available here.

We are aware of users receiving error messages when submitting filings in E-Filing. We are currently looking into the issue, and will provide an update as soon as possible.

The E-Filing system experienced a system wide outage from 12:33 PM to 1:46 PM. E-Filings submitted during this time errored. Please resubmit your documents.

Note: If you paid a fee with an errored filing please DO NOT PAY AGAIN. Use a fee waiver. Instructions to resubmit errored filings are available here.

Resolved as of 8:27 AM. If you received an error notification you may now resubmit your filing.

If you paid a fee with an errored filing please DO NOT PAY AGAIN. Use a fee waiver. Instructions to resubmit errored filings are available here.

We are aware of users receiving error messages when submitting filings in E-Filing. We are temporarily stopping E-Filing to restart the system. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.

Due to the sudden surge of filings after the resolution to the earlier issue, a number of filings have timed out and returned with errors. We recommend waiting a few hours and trying again.

This was resolved around 10:45 AM.

The district court clerks' case management system is unavailable this morning. This also affects e-filers' ability to e-file at all district courts. We will update this post once the district courts are available for E-Filing again.

Resolved as of 5:15 PM.

5:05 PM Update: We are temporarily stopping E-Filing to restart the system. It should only be down for 10-15 minutes.

We have received reports of E-Filing spinning when creating or submitting filings. We are looking in to that now.

Resolved as of 11:15 AM. If you received an error notification you may now resubmit your filing.

If you paid a fee with an errored filing please DO NOT PAY AGAIN. Use a fee waiver. Instructions to resubmit errored filings are available here.

Resolved as of 2:15pm. If you received an error notification you may now resubmit your filing.

If you paid a fee with an errored filing please DO NOT PAY AGAIN. Use a fee waiver. Instructions to resubmit errored filings are available here.

1:50 pm Update: We are temporarily stopping E-Filing to restart the system. 

We are aware of users receiving error messages when submitting filings in E-Filing. We are currently looking into the issue, and will provide an update as soon as possible.

UPDATE 3:10PM: You may resume submitting e-filings. E-filing submitted between 2:07 and 2:45 may error. You will receive an error notification if your filing errors and needs to be resubmitted.

If you paid a fee with an errored filing please DO NOT PAY AGAIN. Use a fee waiver. Instructions to resubmit errored filings are available here.

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There is a problem with the e-filing system document processor that is causing documents to error in processing. This is affecting most e-filings starting from 2:07PM today onward.

Please temporarily pause submitting/resubmitting e-filings. We will update this bulletin when we have a resolution.

***RESOLVED*** as of 8:19 AM. There is currently an issue connecting the E-Filing website to District Courts' case management system. You are not currently able to file at District Courts or view District Court cases. 

We are looking into the issue and will update this post when resolved. The problem only affects District Courts. Supreme, Justice, City, and Municipal Courts are connected to e-filing, and you may continue filing on cases at these courts as normal.

The District Court Clerks are experiencing programmatic issues processing E-Filings. Although, they are still receiving E-Filings you may experience delays in them being processed.

If you have an urgent/emergency filing please file those via traditional means so it can be processed quickly.

We are continuing to work with our vendor to find a resolution.

E-Filings at Courts of Limited Jurisdiction and the Montana Supreme Court are still being processed as normal.

RESOLVED as of 8:45AM. You may still receive error notifications for filing submitted before 8:45AM. E-filing may resume now. If you received an error notification, please resubmit your errored filing.

If you made a payment if your filing, please do not resubmit without using the fee waiver "already paid."

Instructions to resubmit errored filings are available here.

8AM: We are aware of a problem that is causing all documents submitted through the e-filing system right now to error. We are looking into the issue, and will update this post when we have a solution or estimated solution time. Please temporarily halt submitting e-filings. Filings submitted at this time will error. Attorneys/Judges may continue to view their cases in the e-filing system.

RESOLVED as of 4:40PM. E-filing may resume now. We will continue to monitor the system. If you received an error notification, please resubmit your errored filing.

If you made a payment with your filing, please use the fee waiver "already paid" when you resubmit.

3:10 PM: We are aware of a problem that is causing some documents submitted through the e-filing system right now to error. We are looking into the issue, and will update this post when we have a solution or estimated solution time.

RESOLVED as of 9:45AM. E-filing may resume now. We will continue to monitor the system. If you received an error notification, please resubmit your errored filing.

If you made a payment with your filing, please use the fee waiver "already paid" when you resubmit. 

9:30 AM: To correct issues with documents erroring we are performing emergency maintenance and are bringing the E-Filing system down for approximately 15 minutes.

9:00 AM: We are aware of a problem that is causing some documents submitted through the e-filing system right now to error. We are looking into the issue, and will update this post when we have a solution or estimated solution time.

RESOLVED as of 1:50PM. You may still receive error notifications for filing submitted before 1:50PM. E-filing may resume now. If you received an error notification, please resubmit your errored filing.

If you made a payment if your filing, please do not resubmit without using the fee waiver "already paid."

Instructions to resubmit errored filings are available here.

11:18 AM: We are aware of a problem that is causing all documents submitted through the e-filing system right now to error. We are looking into the issue, and will update this post when we have a solution or estimated solution time. Please temporarily halt submitting e-filings. Filings submitted at this time will error. Attorneys/Judges may continue to view their cases in the e-filing system.

Due to a large influx of filings this afternoon some filings are continuing to error. The document processor is trying to catch up as quickly as possible. If you receive an error notification you will need to resubmit your filing.

UPDATE: The intermittent errors occurred with documents submitted as late as 4:24PM. If your document errored, you were sent a notification. As of 8/22, filings are flowing through smoothly, and we are continuing to monitor the system closely.

RESOLVED as of 3:00 PM. The issue has been identified and resolved.

PLEASE RESUBMIT YOUR ERRORED FILINGS. If your filing errored, you received a notification about it. If you paid a fee with your filing DO NOT PAY AGAIN. Use the fee waiver "already paid" and leave a comment to the clerks that specifies you paid with an errored filing. Please identify the date and time you submitted the errored filing to help clerks find your payment receipt.

8AM: We are aware of a problem that is causing all documents submitted through the e-filing system right now to error. We are looking into the issue, and will update this post when we have a solution or estimated solution time. Please temporarily halt submitting e-filings. Filings submitted at this time will error. Attorneys/Judges may continue to view their cases in the e-filing system.

Update: The E-Filing portal is fully operational again.

We are aware of a problem with filers unable to submit documents through E-Filing. We are currently looking into the issue, and will provide an update as soon as possible.

UPDATE: RESOLVED as of 9:00AM.

7:35 AM - SITSD has reported a problem for users logging into multiple state websites including E-Filing. They are currently working on resolving the issue. We will update this post once the issue has been resolved.

Some users have been able to log in if they use the internet browser Microsoft Edge.

Update: Resolved as of 9:08 AM

The E-Filing system is currently down. We are working to resolve this ASAP and expect to have it back up shortly.

Improving e-filing system performance speeds is a priority, and we have been working with our software vendor to accomplish this. To this end, we will be performing tests on the Montana Courts e-filing website on Monday, February 13^th, and expect the e-filing system to have slow loading times throughout the day Monday. You may continue to e-file as normal, but please expect longer loading times Monday.

We appreciate your patience as we work towards optimizing the e-filing website performance.

Update: This has been resolved.

District Courts are currently experiencing intermittent loading issues viewing cases and creating filings.

As of Tuesday, 1/10/2023, the only document which may be uploaded as a supporting document is the Montana Statistics Reporting Form. All other documents should be uploaded using the ‘Add Another Lead Document’ link.

Use the Document Filing Type ‘Proposed Document’ when attaching proposed orders.

This change applies to all trial courts but not the Montana Supreme Court.

Supporting Document Changes

Update: This has been resolved.

Whitefish Municipal Court is currently not connected to E-Filing. We do not yet have an ETA for when it will be available again. We will update this post as information becomes available.

UPDATE: Resolved as of 8:40 a.m. Due to a problem with an update to the district courts’ case management system, E-Filing is currently not connected to any district courts. You will not be able to file on or search cases through E-Filing at any district courts until further notice.

E-Filing at Courts of Limited Jurisdiction and the Montana Supreme Court are still available.

UPDATE: This was resolved around 12:15 PM.

There are intermittent problems viewing cases and filing on cases in Justice, City and Municipal courts throughout the state this morning. We will update this bulletin board when we have a resolution.

Update: Yellowstone County Justice Court is available in E-Filing and is now enabled for E-Filing on CR, TK, and CV cases.

Yellowstone County Justice Court is unavailable in E-Filing while the court converts to a new case management system software. They will be available again on 9/21/2022.

UPDATE 2:30 PM: Some courts and clerks' offices are still experiencing connectivity issues, so please expect delays in the review and processing of your e-filing submissions.

1:07 PM: You may resume e-filing.

Due to intermittent statewide connectivity issues, please temporarily halt submitting e-filings at this time. Although the e-filing website is available, please do not submit e-filings at this time. State ITSD is troubleshooting the connectivity issue. We will update this post when you may resume e-filing.

*UPDATE* This has been resolved as of 10:08 AM. Some users are receiving error messages when trying to submit documents, and are therefore not able to submit documents at this time. We are looking in to this issue and will update this post when we have a resolution or resolution timeline.

The Montana trial courts’ case management system, FCE, is getting updated tonight (8/1/2022) starting at 5:30 PM and ending at 8:30 PM (Mountain Time). During this time, the E-Filing website will be up, but you will be unable to view cases or submit filings to most trial courts.

Note: The Montana Supreme Court, Yellowstone County Justice Court, and Billings Municipal Court are not affected by this update. All other E-Filing courts will be affected.

Update 7/27/22: The 500 and ajax errors have been resolved. Some users will receive the message "User has not been authorized," usually after leaving their computer idle. To clear this, please clear your browser cache and log in again.

E-Filing users have been experiencing a variety of error messages and slowness issues. We have reported it to our vendor and are working on a resolution. In the meantime, hitting “Go Back” or “Okay”, if those options are given does clear the errors. You can also try clearing your browser cache or closing your internet browser and then logging back in. We know this is an inconvenience, and will update the bulletin when we have a resolution.

Update: District FCE courts are connected to E-Filing again. This has been resolved.

District FCE courts are not connected to E-Fiilng this morning. We are working on a resolution as soon as possible. Note, this does not affect courts of limited jurisdiction or the Montana Supreme Court.

In an attempt to resolve the issue of the E-Filing website being slow, we are going to turn off the website at 12:00 PM today for maintenance. Please finish up any work you are doing on the site before 12:00 and log off. The website should be available again by 12:30 PM.

Update: The website is back up after the maintenance. We are still monitoring the speeds of E-Filing.

UPDATE: As of 9:47 AM E-Filing is accepting documents again.

The Montana Courts Electronic Filing System is experiencing document processing failures resulting in errored filings today, 6/30/22. The errors began at 6:00 PM 6/29/22. Please wait to submit your E-Filings. We are working on a resolution. This situation is ongoing, and we will post an update on our bulletin board when this has been resolved.

Update: Maintenance is extended until 8:00 AM

There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM on Thursday, June 30, 2022. The e-filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window.

The e-filing website now uses the login system Okta. Log in with your email address. State employees, log in with your c#.

Please check your email for an Okta activation email. If you already have set up your Okta account using a different state application, you will not receive an activation email.

If you have problems logging in, please email efilingtechsupport@mt.gov

We are expecting a high volume of support requests in the days and weeks following this switch. Please be patient with us as we get back to you.

State ITSD will be conducting maintenance activities beginning Saturday, June 25, 2022 at 5:00 a.m. until Sunday, June 26, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. During this time, e-filing interruptions will happen as servers and software are updated and rebooted. Please avoid e-filing during this maintenance window. Posted 6/21/22

The Montana Courts Electronic Filing website will be switching to a new login experience on June 23, 2022 after 5:00 PM. E-Filing will be unavailable starting promptly at 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM on June 23rd. Please plan your work accordingly.

After the maintenance window the login software for the e-filing system will be "Okta" rather than "ePass."

Resolved

Update: The system is available again.

The system will be down starting at 12:30 until 1:00 today 6/14/22 as we conduct maintenance in an effort to increase loading page speeds within the website.

There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 AM and 8:00 AM on Friday, June 3, 2022. The e-filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window.

Update: Services have been restored at 12:50 PM.

The system is experiencing failures in processing documents and viewing cases. This is resulting in filing errors. We will update this post when we have a status change.

Resolved as of 3:40PM 5/31/22.

There are document processing failures resulting in intermittent filing errors starting this afternoon at approximately 1:40PM. Errors are intermittent and ongoing. We will post an update/resolution here as soon as possible.

This issue is RESOLVED as of 1:20PM.

There are issues viewing cases and submitting e-filings at district courts that use the case management system FCE today, Tuesday 5/31. (In the court selection menu, these courts are listed as "District Court - FCE.")

RESOLVED. Email notifications that were unable to send 5/16 in the morning hours were sent later 5/16.

E-Filing is currently unable to send out email notifications. We are working with our vendor to get this resolved as soon as possible. In the meantime, you can view your homepage notifications by clicking on the little chat bubble with the red number next to your name in the top right corner of the E-Filing website. We will update this post once we have a resolution.

We are going to restart the E-Filing application at 11:15 AM this morning for emergency maintenance. Please stop your work on the E-Filing system until after 11:30 AM.

UPDATE: RESOLVED as of 2:30PM

The e-filing website is not able to be accessed at this time. ePass MT, which the E-Filing website uses to manage the login process, is currently down. The e-filing website is one of numerous state websites that use ePass that will not be reachable until the problem is resolved. The State’s ITSD is looking into the issue.

Update: CitePayUSA has resolved the issue around 1:05 PM.

CitePayUSA is currently unable to receive payments coming in from E-Filing. We are working with the CitePayUSA vendor to resolve the issue as soon as we can. We will update this post once we have a resolution.

UPDATE: E-Filing has been restored at all courts. You can resume e-filing your documents. We will contact you individually today, if one or more of your filings was affected and needs to be resubmitted.

Please temporarily halt submitting e-filings today until further notice.

There is a problem this morning in sending messages between the e-filing system and court case management system. Please temporarily halt submitting e-filings while we work to resolve this issue, even if you are not receiving error messages for your filings.

This issue does not affect filings at the following courts: Montana Supreme Court, Fergus County District Court, Judith Basin County District Court, Fergus County Justice Court, Judith Basin Justice Court, Yellowstone County Justice Court, Billings Municipal Court. Continue to submit filings at these courts only.

We are working towards the quickest possible resolution, but know that the issue will persist into midday today. We will update this board when we have a resolution.

Update: This was resolved around 9:35 AM.

Courts using the case management system FullCourt Enterprise (FCE) are experiencing an outage of their case management system. E-filings are not able to be made or cases viewed during this time for Limited Jurisdiction courts that use FCE. (These courts are listed as Justice Court-FCE, Municipal Court-FCE, or City Court-FCE in court selection dropdown menus.)

Update: This issue has been resolved. documents submitted between 8:19 AM and 9:20 AM, will need to be resubmitted. If you have already paid a filing fee, please use a fee waiver when you resubmit your documents.

Beginning at 8:19 AM, the system is having intermittent failures in processing documents, resulting in filing errors. Please hold off on resubmitting your documents until we have the issue cleared. We will update this bulletin when we have a status change

E-Filing support will be very limited and may be unavailable on Thursday, December 23^rd.  Our offices are closed on Friday, December 24^th and Friday, December 31^st.    

Please be patient with us on Wednesday and Friday, November 24^th and 26^th as we have several members of our small e-filing team out for medical reasons and vacation.  Anything that is not an emergency will likely be dealt with next week.  We wish you a very lovely Thanksgiving.

This is resolved as of noon 11/22/21.  Yellowstone County District Court is experiencing problems with their case management system (FCE).  As maintenance is being conducted on that issue, it is likely that the e-filing portal will be unable to connect to Yellowstone County District Court's FCE. While this is occurring, cases at this court will not be able to be searched or filed upon in the e-filing system.

 UPDATE: This has been resolved.

The following courts are not connected to e-filing this morning:

Billings Municipal Court

Fergus Justice Court

Judith Basin County District Court

Judith Basin Justice Court

Lewistown City Court

UPDATE: This issue has been resolved. The errors occurred with intermittent filings between 1:07 PM and 1:57 PM. You will receive an error notification if your filing errored and needs to be resubmitted.

Beginning at 1:07 p.m., the system is having intermittent failures in processing documents, resulting in filing errors.  Please hold off on resubmitting your documents until we have the issue cleared.  We will update this bulletin when we have a status change.

Update: The issue has been resolved. Since the clerks' offices experienced technical difficulties, you may continue to experience longer than usual processing times of your documents while the offices catch up.

Please expect delays in the processing of your documents if you are e-filing at District Courts that use FCE. These delays are due to technical problems that the clerks' offices are experiencing while processing documents in their case management system. Techs are working to resolve the issue. There are no problems in viewing cases or submitting filings through the e-filing system, but please expect delays in document approval/rejection from the clerks' offices.

The following District Courts are affected:
Beaverhead County, Big Horn County, Chouteau County, Fallon County, Flathead County, Hill County, Jefferson County, Liberty County, McCone County, Madison County, Mineral County, Missoula County, Park County, Prairie County, Ravalli County, Wibaux County

UPDATE: As of 11:15 AM this has been resolved at all court levels.

Courts using the case management system FullCourt Enterprise (FCE) are experiencing an outage of their case management system. E-filings are not able to be made or cases viewed during this time for District courts that use FCE. (These courts are listed as District Court-FCE in court selection dropdown menus.)

Update: This has been resolved as of 8:30 AM.

COLJ Courts using the case management system FullCourt Enterprise (FCE) have FCE unavailable to the clerks' offices this morning. Techs are working to resolve this FCE issue. E-filing at these courts is not currently affected.

Update: This was resolved at 5:12 PM.

Beginning at 4:25 PM, the system is experiencing failures in processing documents. This is resulting in filing errors. We will update this post when we have a status change.

Update: This has been resolved.

Beginning at 12:45 PM, the system is having intermittent failures in processing documents. This is resulting in filing errors. We will update this post when we have a status change.

YELLOWSTONE COUNTY DISTRICT COURT PLANNED OUTAGE: Beginning Tuesday, Sept. 14 at 11:59 p.m., e-filing will be unavailable on all cases at Yellowstone County District Court due to the court's case management system upgrade. E-filing on DC, DJ, DN, DI, and DD cases will resume on Wednesday, Sept. 29.

Update: This has been resolved.

Beginning at 2:18 PM, the system is having intermittent failures in processing documents. This is resulting in filing errors. We will update this post when we have a status change.

Update: This has been resolved.

The system has had failures in processing documents beginning at 11:49 AM today, and has had intermittent errors since. This situation has reoccurred and is ongoing. Filing errors will likely continue past the close of business today.

Update: E-Filing is processing documents again starting around 12:06 PM.

Beginning at 8:04 a.m., the system is having intermittent failures in processing documents.  We have techs working on the system currently.  Please hold off on resubmitting your documents until we have the issue cleared.  We will update this bulletin when we have a status change.

All services have been restored by 11:00am.  You may resubmit your documents at this time.

Beginning at 9:30, the system is having intermittent failures in processing documents.  We have techs working on the system currently.  Please hold off on resubmitting your documents until we have the issue cleared.  We will update this bulletin when we have a status change.

Update: This has been resolved as of 4:10 PM and documents are now being processed. If you received an error notification for your document you will need to resubmit it.

Beginning at 3:46 PM, the system is having intermittent failures in processing documents. This is resulting in some filing errors.

Update: This has been resolved and documents are now being processed. If you received an error notification for your document you will need to resubmit it.

Starting at approximately 11:11 AM today, documents are not flowing through the system, resulting in filing errors. Please wait to resubmit documents or submit new filings until we have the issue cleared up. We will update this board as soon as we have a change in status.

UPDATE: This was resolved around 5:15 PM on 8/4/2021.

Starting around 4:00 PM today CitePayUSA, which the Montana Courts E-Filing System uses to collect payments, is experiencing errors when trying to submit payments. We will update this post when we have a resolution.

UPDATE: Resolved.

As of 4:32 p.m. 7/20/21, the system is having intermittent errored filings.

*UPDATE: As of 8:30 a.m. this has been resolved.

The system is having intermittent failures in processing documents this morning. This is resulting in some filing errors.

State ITSD will be conducting maintenance activities on the evening of Friday, July 9, 2021. The maintenance window is between 9:00 p.m.. and 10:00 p.m..

During this time, unexpected e-filing interruptions will happen as servers and software are updated and rebooted.  Please avoid e-filing during this maintenance window.

Beaverhead County District Court is now enabled for E-Filing on DV, DR, DN, DD, DI, DC and DJ cases.

Prairie County District Court and Wibaux County District Court are now enabled for E-Filing on DV, DR, DN, DD, DI, DC and DJ cases.

ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2021, 3-7 P.M. STATE SITSD IS CONDUCTING MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES WITH EPASS MONTANA. THE EPASS MONTANA FUNCTION AND RELIANT APPLICATIONS INCLUDING E-FILING WILL BE UNAVAILABLE DURING THIS MAINTENANCE WINDOW. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS MAINTENANCE WINDOW STARTS DURING BUSINESS HOURS WEDNESDAY. PLEASE PLAN YOUR WORK ACCORDINGLY. (POSTED 4/19/21)

There is scheduled maintenance between 7:30 PM and 8:30 PM on Monday, April 19, 2021. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this time. Please sign out of your E-filing account by 7:30 PM until 8:30 PM on April 19th. (Posted 4/15/21)

There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this time. Please sign out of your E-filing account by 7:00 AM until 7:30 AM on April 13th. (Posted 4/12/21)

CitePayUSA will be conducting maintenance activities tonight, Monday, April 12, 2021 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.. During this time, please avoid submitting e-filings that have statutory filing fees. E-filings that do not require filing fees will not be affected. (Posted 4/12/21)

Ravalli County District Court is now enabled for E-Filing on DV, DR, DN, DD, DI, DC and DJ cases.

There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM on Tuesday, April 6, 2021. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this time. Please sign out of your E-filing account by 7:00 AM until 7:30 AM on April 6th. (Posted 4/2/21)

State ITSD will be conducting maintenance activities on Sunday, March 28, 2021. The scheduled maintenance window is 6:00 AM to 12:00 noon Sunday. During this time, unexpected e-filing interruptions will happen as servers and software are updated and rebooted. Please avoid e-filing during this maintenance window. (Posted 3/24/21)

UPDATE: The brief outage has been resolved as of 1:40PM.

There is currently an E-Filing outage with FCE Courts statewide. Please wait to resubmit documents or submit new filings until we have the issue cleared up. We will update this bulletin board when we have more information. Posted 3/18/2021, 1:35PM

State ITSD will be conducting security maintenance activities on the evening of Thursday March 11, 2021. During this time, unexpected e-filing interruptions will happen as servers and software are updated and rebooted. Please avoid e-filing during this maintenance window. The scheduled maintenance window is 8PM-midnight tonight, March 11. (Posted 3/11/2021)

All E-Filing services are restored. The outage window was from about 10:15 to noon today. If you have failed filings during this time, you will need to resubmit them.

Starting at approximately 10:15 AM today, no documents are flowing through the system. Please wait to resubmit documents or submit new filings until we have the issue cleared up. We will update this board as soon as we have a change in status.