How 14 Day Amendment works

Recently updated on February 3rd, 2025 at 09:06 pm

LegalAtoms allows the 14 Day Amendment Feature which is the ability for courts to hold a judicial re-send the case to a petitioner for corrections Here are the steps involved

Step 1:  Petitioner submits the case

Here’s how it would appear on the clerk’s dashboard

 

Step 2:  Clerk accepts the case

This also involves assigning a Cause number in the court system, which is equivalent to the case number issued to a client once their filing is officially accepted.  That is done by

  • Enter the cause number
  • Add the Email content to accept the submission, you can also use the response templates
  • Click on the Approve and Email button

Step 3: Judge Denies the Order with the ability to Amend

Typically a judicial officer would review the case documents, and then click on Start to enter the questionnaire where they can indicate their intent for Grant or Deny. Within the questionnaire, the Judge would make these three selections in the green box, which will set the stage for a later step  whereby the client will have the ability to create a fresh set of documents.  

Step 4: Make Edits and Sign the Temporary Order Documents

After Deny the protection order, the document starts auto generate and you will see the temporary order document HTML version on your dashboard within a few seconds.

Verify these documents are generated under (Temporary Order Documents, and Temporary Order Packet) if the judge deny the temporary order

This document generation depends on whether you choose the email method or not “PO 025 Order to Allow Service by Mail”.

1. PO 070 Denial Order
2. PO 027 Order to Allow Electronic Service
3. PO 025 Order to Allow Service by Mail

 LegalAtoms allows to judge add signature to a temporary order document using the Edit HTML feature. Follow the given steps to add signature in the document.

  • Click the Edit icon/button to open the document in edit mode.

  • In the document editor, click on the top left Edit button to switch to Edit HTML view.
  • Scroll through the Edit HTML document to locate the judge section where the signature should be placed.
  • Place your cursor in the desired location for the signature. Judge can upload signature or can add signature as a plain text.
  • Judge can add name in the input field “Print Judge/Court Commissioner Name”.

  • Once the judge have added the signature and name, click on the Close icon button to save the changes to the document.
  • The changes will be auto save and reflected in all the documents within the section.

  • After changing the document manually via Edit HTML feature judge can not amendment to the question he can only view the questionnaire.

 

Step 5: Judge clicks “Next” and Notify Clerk

Simply click on the Notify button to send the Denial order documents to the clerk and petitioner. A popup will appear where the Judge can add a message and click the Notify button.

After Notify the clerk, the document will start auto-generate, after generating the document an email with the attached zip PDF document will be sent to the clerk and petitioner.

 

The clerk or judge can’t view the Refile section questionnaire and documents until the petitioner Refiled the case.

At the client side, a new copy of the questionnaires with previous responses prefilled is created. This provides the client an ability to create a fresh set of documents without modifying the previous filings.

Step 6: Client makes Amends and Re-submits

The client now sees all the previous questionnaires and documents, and a new set of documents for the resubmission. This ensures that the history is retained, and the client has a new copy of questionnaires and documents to work with. Suppose the client modifies their statement   They would go through the standard steps of a submission which are:

  • Complete all questionnaires
  • Run the automated checks
  • Regenerate the documents
  • Click on the Submit

The clerk and petitioner are notified via email and the case is moved to the top.

Step 7: Clerk would again have to Accept/Reject/Request More info

The clerk sees a new Initial Filing section added after the Temporary Order section. At this point the cycle begins again as in Step 1 above. The cycle can continue an arbitrary number of times i.e. the court can keep on denying arbitrary number of times. There is no maximum limit in LegalAtoms.    

Case Dismissal

Suppose the petitioner doesn’t respond within 14 days, then LegalAtoms sends an email notification to the Clerk that the 14 day period has expired.

The 14 day period is from the moment Judge clicks Notify to inform the petitioner about the denial with no hearing.

The email has the following text:

14 days have elapsed for this case which was in the 14-day-amendment state:

Case Title: Petitioner PLastName Vs. Respondent RLastName

Cause # 34r3434 which  

If the Court wants to dismiss the case, they can do that by clicking the Dismiss button at the bottom. This will add a new document section containing the Denial Order