Frequently Asked Questions

The federal Judiciary does not recommend sharing PACER accounts. Anyone sharing a username and/or password can potentially update information, like the password, and inadvertently lock out other users who also share the account. To reset your password, you will need to know associated email address and username, or account number, or date of birth, and security questions.   

NextGen CM/ECF also allows you to use the same username and password for both PACER and electronic filing. As a filer, you will be required to link your CM/ECF filing account to your individual PACER account.

Using a PACER Administrative Account (PAA), your firm can manage the billing for all individual accounts. Learn more about about a PAA.

Yes. Any balance (including credit) will be transferred to the linked PACER Administrative Account.

Changing a password, updating contact information, setting security information, or changing account preferences are not be possible without upgrading the PACER account.

For a PACER Administrative Account, it is not possible to perform management functions such as adding or unlinking an account, viewing a list of accounts, or assigning cost center information in addition to the functions mentioned above for a PACER account, without upgrading the account.

Client code requirements are automatically applied to new accounts added to a PACER Administrative Account and any prior client code requirements are overwritten.

Yes. An email will be sent to both users when an account is unlinked from the PACER Administrative Account.

Accounts linked to a PACER Administrative Account will not generate a bill; all charges will be billed to the PAA.

If a user registers with a credit card and then is added to a PAA the credit card they used during registration will not be charged.

A user cannot add an account to your PACER Administrative Account. You must invite the user and they must accept the invite. As the PACER Administrative Account user, you can unlink the account at any time, and the individual user can also unlink at any time.