Overview of Party Status

The Party Status feature allows your jurisdiction to record and maintain a history of a party's status. The person setting up your system can define codes for manually updating party status. In addition, a rule can be established associating a party status code with one or more docket codes for automatic updating. Check with your supervisor to determine how your jurisdiction uses the Party Status feature.

Your jurisdiction can use ACS Contexte without using any part of the party status feature. If so, forms displaying a party status field do not show party status.

If an action you take causes a docket code to be changed, deleted, or added to a case or party, the party status may be affected.

How the party status feature works

The person setting up your system creates party status codes on the Party Status Code Validation form (CTVPSTS).
If your jurisdiction wants automatic party status updating, the person setting up your system associates the party status codes with docket codes on the Party Status Rule form (CTRPSTS) and enters a date range to indicate the period during which the rule is in effect.

The person also can set the rule to automatically update the status of a filing party or associated party. If it is set for:

filing party and you associate one of the docket codes with a filing party on the Docket Association form (CDADOCT), the system automatically updates the status.
associated parties and you associate a docket code with an associated party on the Person Association form (CDQPASS), the system automatically updates the status.

If your jurisdiction chooses not to use the automatic update feature, the person setting up your system can define status codes on the Party Status Code Validation form (CTVPSTS), but not associate those codes with rules on the Party Status Rule form (CTRPSTS). With this type of setup, you can manually update a party's status on the following forms: