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Why court portals reject filings
The motion is ready. You go to upload it, and the portal rejects the file — wrong name format, over the page cap — at 4:58 on the filing day. The requirements were never secret. They just weren't in front of you until the worst possible moment.
The rules that trip people up
Every court and portal has its own constraints, and they vary:
- Naming conventions — a required format (document type, party, name, date), with firm abbreviations and file numbers disallowed.
- Size and page caps — Ontario's Case Center, for example, caps a single uploaded document at 500 pages.
- Volume splitting — a record over the cap has to be broken into volumes with continuous numbering and a master index.
- Format rules — bookmarked PDFs uploaded a particular way; some documents (draft orders, factums) in Word instead.
Get ahead of it
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