§ 9-11-133.Forms meeting requirements for civil case filing and disposition information

Unlike every other section in this article, this one prints no sample pleading. It is a directive statute, assigning responsibility for creating the standardized data forms every civil filer in Georgia fills out at the courthouse, rather than showing sample language for a complaint, motion, or judgment.

The statute puts the Judicial Council of Georgia in charge of promulgating those forms, subject to the Supreme Court’s approval. That is why the forms themselves do not appear printed in the Code alongside the complaints and motions elsewhere in this article — they are administrative documents the Judicial Council issues and updates outside the statutory text.

The section singles out two of those forms by name: the general civil case filing information form and the domestic relations case filing information form. Both must include an acknowledgment from the filer that the complaint and any exhibits or attachments comply with the redaction requirements of Code Section 9-11-7.1, which govern how sensitive personal information is kept out of publicly filed court records.

The section’s amendment history — revisited repeatedly since its original 2000 enactment — tracks how Georgia’s case-filing and redaction requirements have kept evolving as courts refine how they track civil case data.