The Clerk's Office has developed detailed instructions for filing a civil action on your own behalf. After reviewing these directions, the following links will walk you through the process of completing the four items required for filing a civil action.

1. Complaint
   
   
2. Summons
   
   
3. Civil Cover Sheet (JS 44)
   
   
4. Filing Fee or an Application to Proceed In Forma Pauperis

Before filing any document, please omit any sensitive information.  Refer to page 3 of the Instructions for Filing a Civil Action on Your Own Behalf.

After completing these materials, either bring or mail them to the Baltimore or Greenbelt Clerk's Office.

Baltimore Division
101 W. Lombard St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
(410) 962-2600

Nothing in these links or tutorials should be viewed as legal advice.