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Washington County Tennessee Consolidating Court Locations

Effective October 26, 2009, the four court locations in Washington County, TN will house at the new Justice Center Address at 108 W Jackson Blvd, Jonesborough, TN 37659. The limited jurisdiction civil General Sessions Court and Probate Court are moving from Johnson City to Jonesborough. The 1st District Circuit & General Sessions Court located on E. Main in Jonesborough will also move into the Jackson Blvd. location.

At this time, it is not known if the Johnson City phone numbers will remain the same or be changed. For questions, call the 1st District Circuit Court at 423-753-1611.

 

Fee Increases At Clerk's Office - Macomb County, Michigan

November 1, 2009 there will be fee increases for court record copies and for certified copies of certain public records. At the 16th Circuit Court, plain copies will increase from $.40 per page per copy to $1.00 per page. The $10.00 certified fee remains the same; however, certified copies of vital records will increase to $15.00 for the first copy and $5.00 for each additional copy. Search fees for the Clerk's records did not increase.

The fees for copies or searches from the Register of Deeds remain the same.
See www.macombcountymi.gov/clerksoffice/#

Hamilton County Courts, Indiana

In late September, 2009, the Circuit & Superior Courts of Hamilton County Indiana switched their case file management to the Odyssey case management system provided by the Indiana Supreme Court. As a result, online access to the court record index is now available at http://mycase.in.gov/default.aspx.

Previously, courts place the record index with https://www.doxpop.com. While Hamilton County records may still be accessed from Doxpop's subscription system, the range of records date from 01/1987 to 9/21//2009. Thus, since the switchover, new cases and updates to existing cases for Hamilton County are no longer updated on Doxpop.

San Bernardino Superior Court Looking to Close Redlands Division

The San Bernardino Superior Court recently announced its intention to close the Redlands Division effective October 12, 2009. 

The current plan is to transfer all Probate matters to the Civil Division at 303 W Third Street in San Bernardino and to transfer Traffic matters to the Traffic Court at 351 N Arrowhead also in San Bernardino.

The court is looking for public comments to be received by August 21 at 5PM via email to Redlands@courts.sbcounty.gov. For more information, visit
www.co.san-bernardino.ca.us/COURTS/flash.asp.

Changes at California Courts

For further details, visit the state courts site at A number of statewide changes were recently instituted by the Judicial Council of California.

Document Certification Fee - Effective July 29, 2009, the fee for certifying a copy of a paper, record, or a proceeding on file increased from $15.00 to $25.00.

Case Filing Fees - Also effective July 29, 2009, the fee for filing most any case in the CA court system increased by $5.00 per filing.

Mandated State Court Business Day Closures - Per the Council, all state courts will be closed on the third Wednesday of each month, from September 2009 through June 2010.

For further details, visit the state courts site at www.courtinfo.ca.gov/.

Contra Costa Superior Court Fees

Effective this week, the Superior Courts in Contra Costa County, CA are participating in a Pilot Study Program for criminal record searching.  All of the Superior Courts in the county are now adding a $15 surcharge for any name lists presented that have 51 or more names, per 70627(c).

Also, regardless of the number of names, there is now a $.50 charge to receive a printout of a case, per 70627(a). This is in addition to the standard $.50 copy fee, if a copy is needed.

Civil Judgments in South Dakota - Search Online

Access civil money judgments from 04/19/2004 forward on a statewide system at:

https://apps.sd.gov/applications/judgmentquery/login.aspx

Charges for searches with a credit/debit card are $4.00 per name or date range search and an additional $1.00 charge to access the judgment docket. A subscription service with added features is also available.

Fire Closes Attleboro, Massachusetts District Court

The Attleboro, Massachusetts District Court is closed indefinitely due to extensive smoke and water damage caused by a fire that happened on May 22, 2009. Name searches can still be conducted at a neighboring courthouse, but access to record files is unavailable until further notice.

Thank you to County House Research, Inc for this news.

Winchendon District Court in MA Moving

The Winchendon District Court in Worcester County has relocated from Winchendon to the town of Gardner Massachusetts. The court is now housed at the Gardner District Court located at 108 Mathews in Gardner. The case records will not be co-mingled; Winchendon's records are to be kept separate from Gardner. The Winchendon Courts jurisdiction includes Ashburnham, Phillipston, Royalston, Templeton, and Winchendon.

New Hampshire Court Search Fees to Signficantly Increase

We learned that the NH Administrative Office of Courts, through administrative rule, is mandating a significant increase in many court fees, effective August 1st. For example, the current fee for searching civil or criminal records will increase from a  flat $10.00 fee for up to 9 names, and $25.00 for 10 or more names to the following fee structure: $20.00 for each of the first 5 names, then $5.00 per name afterword.  Following the new guidelines, if 9 names are ordered the fee is now $120. It used to be $10.00. Thanks to the folks at County House Research Inc. in Philadelphia for alerting us to this situation.