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At the Clerk’s Office’s intake counter, the Deputy Clerk present can go over your petition and other papers before you file them to see if the Deputy Clerk can spot any deficiencies in the petition and related documents you are preparing to file so that you can correct them before filing. Most of the time the Deputy Clerk will spot any deficiencies you need to correct. (The Clerk’s Office would much prefer to have any deficiencies be corrected by you before you file; having to issue deficiency notices after you file is more work for the Clerk’s Office.)