Updated 11/11/2020
You can access your account information through the Maintain Your ECF Account menu to update your office/address/telephone number, email preferences and filing agent information. You may also deactivate a filing agent.
Step-by-Step Instructions: Updating Your Office, Address or Telephone Number
- Select Utilities > Maintain Your ECF Account.
- When the account screen displays, edit as appropriate.
- Click Submit.
- Click Submit to search for Open cases and Closed cases.
- Select to Update All cases.
- Click Submit to complete the update.
Step-by-Step Instructions: Updating Your Email Preferences
- Select Utilities > Maintain Your ECF Account.
- Click Email information.
- Edit as appropriate.
- Primary email address - Enter an email address to receive Notices of Electronic Filing (NEFs). Reenter the primary email address to verify.
- Secondary email address - You may have NEFs sent to other email addresses in addition to your primary address. When entering email addresses, separate each address with a semicolon or press "Enter" after each address so one address appears on each line.
- Send the notices specified below - Select one or both options.
- Send notices in cases in which I am involved - Check to receive NEFs in cases in which you are a participant. IMPORTANT! You are allowed one free look for each PDF associated with the notice, which expires 15 days from receipt of the notice.
- Send notices in these additional cases - Users can elect to receive NEFs in cases in which they have an interest but are not case participants. Check the box, enter a case number and click Find This Case. There is no limit to the number of additional cases that can be listed. IMPORTANT! You will not receive a free look for these PDFs.
- Send notices for adversary proceedings in which I am directly involved and for their related bankruptcy cases - Select this option if you would like to receive NEFs of bankruptcy matters when your appearance is only entered in the adversary proceeding.
- Send notices for adversary proceedings in which I am directly involved but not for their related bankruptcy cases - Select this option if you would not like to receive NEFs for related bankruptcy cases.
- Send a notice for each filing - Select to receive email notices as activity occurs throughout the day.
- Send a Daily Summary Report - Select to receive a single summary report at the end of the day.
- Format notices
- HTML format will include hyperlinks to the PDFs.
- Text will feature the URL of the PDF document, which can be copied and pasted into the location bar of your browser.
- When done, click Return to Account screen.
- Click Submit.
- Click Submit to complete the update.
Step-by-Step Instructions: Updating Filing Agent Information and Permissions
- Select Utilities > Maintain Your ECF Account
- Click More user information.
- The filing agents associated with your account displays in the gray box. Click the hyperlink of the agent you wish to update.
- The Filing Agent Information screen displays.
- Edit as appropriate.
- To edit the filing agent's permission to pay fees on your behalf:
- Click Update permissions.
- Select Y or N to allow Internet Payment.
- Click Return to account screen.
- Click Submit.
- A message displays confirming the update to the filing agent account. Click OK.
- Click Return to Account screen.
- Click Submit to complete the update.
Step-by-Step Instructions: Deactivating a Filing Agent
- Select Utilities > Maintain Your ECF Account.
- Click More user information.
- The filing agents associated with your account displays in the gray box.
- An active filing agent is shown with a check in the box next to the filing agent's name. To deactivate the association, uncheck the box and click Return to Account screen.
- Click Submit to complete the update.