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Pa. PACFile Help: Step by Step Guides - Common Pleas
PACFile help: Step by Step Guides - Common Pleas
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Step-by-Step Guides: Common Pleas Courts
The following links open PDF documents that offer step-by-step assistance with common PACFiling processes.
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Creating a PACFiling
How to File a Written Allegation of Delinquency
How to File a Delinquency Petition
How to Initiate a Dependency Case with a Petition or Application
How to File on an Existing Case (excluding Entry of Appearance)
How to File on an Existing Case - JV, DP, Other ( - Juvenile, Dependency, Other)
How to File an Entry of Appearance on an Existing Case
How to Create a New Adoptions Case
Working with Saved Filings
How to Continue Saved Filings
How to Approve, Submit, or Return a Filing
How to Correct and/or Submit an Approved Filing
Submission & Payment
How to Submit a Filing with a Fee and make a Payment
Proxying
How to Request Proxy Rights
How to Assign Proxy Rights from a Request
How to Assign Proxy Rights without a Request
Verify/Update Rights for a Proxy
How to Assign Organizational Proxy Rights without a Request
Person-to-Person Proxy Notification Types
Organizational Proxy Notification Types
Miscellaneous Guides
Dashboard Overview
Search for a Case and view the Docket Entries
View Documents from eService
Verify/Update your Police Officer Role
Verify/Update your Attorney Role
How to Request Access to a Court Calendar
Viewing a Court Calendar
Completing Case Participant Searches
Completing Calendar Event Searches
Search Security: Participant and Calendar Event Searches
Subscribe to Case Notifications
Accepted Fonts for PACFiled Documents
How to Merge Documents using Adobe Acrobat:
Version DC
Version XI
Version 2017
How to Save a Microsoft Document as a PDF (Choose based on the version you are using):
MS Word 2016 or Office 365
MS Word 2013 & 2010
MS Word 2007
MS Word 2003 and older
Attorney Manual
Attorney Manual - Version 23.1
Police Office Manual - Allegheny County only
Allegheny County Police Officer Manual - Version 23.1
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- Retrieved
- 2026-09-30
- Edition
- 2026-09-30
- Content hash
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