Please select from one of the following forms below.

Form One is for attorneys and Form Two is for users.
1) ECF Filer Registration Form
2) ECF User Registration Form

Fill out, sign and print the registration form and mail it in to us at:
United States Bankruptcy Court
Middle District of Tennessee
Attn: ECF Registration
701 Broadway
Nashville, TN 37203


In lieu of mailing you may also either fax the completed form to us at (615) 736-2305 or email the form as an attached file to tnmb_cmecfregistration@tnmb.uscourts.gov.

The Clerk's Office is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The Clerk's Office is closed in observance of the following federal holidays

New Year's Day (January 1)
Martin Luther King's Birthday (3rd Monday in January)
George Washington's Birthday (3rd Monday in February)
Memorial Day (Last Monday in May)
Independence Day (July 4)
Labor Day (First Monday in September)
Columbus Day (Second Monday in October)
Veterans' Day (November 11)
Thanksgiving Day (Fourth Thursday in November)
Christmas Day (December 25)

Attorneys admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee are also admitted to practice before the Bankruptcy Court. Contact the United States District Court at 615.736.5498 for its admission policies.

You may come to the Clerk's Office and request certified copies. There is a printing fee and a certification fee for each document to be certified. Alternatively, if you know the documents you are looking for, you can mail a request to the Clerk's Office. Your request must specifically identify the documents you want certified. Be sure to include the case name, case number, filing date and the title of the specific documents which you wish to have certified. In addition, please include your name, address and daytime contact number, so the Clerk can reach you if he has any questions about your request.

Also, if you request certified documents by mail, you must include payment for the Clerk's file research and certification with your request. The payment must be in the form of either a bank cashiers check or a U.S. Postal money order made payable to the United States Bankruptcy Court. The fees that apply when requesting a certified document by mail include: a per document research fee, a certification fee per document, and a per page photocopy fee.

The information contained in documents filed in bankruptcy cases are a matter of public record, and can be reviewed by members of the general public. The documents can be reviewed by members of the public in the Clerk's Office during regular business hours or, for attorneys and creditors who have access to PACER, over the Internet 24 hours a day.

Access to pleadings and papers filed in bankruptcy cases is not restricted unless there is some good basis for "sealing" information that is contained in them. To have a document filed "Under Seal" or "In Camera," a motion must be filed explaining the need to protect the information in that document from public view.

If you are a debtor, you should be aware that the filing of bankruptcy may affect your credit rating. Several reporting agencies report bankruptcy information and statistics to the public, and credit reporting agencies also regularly collect bankruptcy information.