Find Trigg County Circuit Court Clerk

Trigg County Circuit Clerk

The court-record custodian for Trigg County trial courts is the Office of Circuit Court Clerk, led locally by Lisa Thomas, also listed in official materials as Lisa Fuller Thomas. Kentucky circuit court clerks are elected county officials who serve six-year terms and work within the Kentucky Court of Justice. In Trigg County, that office supports Circuit Court and District Court from the same justice center in Cadiz, so it is the practical starting point for court case files, docket questions, jury information, court costs, fines, bonds, and file-location questions.

The Circuit Court Clerk is not the same office as the Trigg County Clerk. The court clerk keeps Circuit, Family, District, and Business Court records for the judicial branch. The County Clerk, Carmen Finley, keeps county records such as deeds, mortgages, marriage licenses, notary bonds, veterans discharge recordings, delinquent tax files, elections, and motor-vehicle work. That distinction matters because a divorce decree, felony case, misdemeanor docket, traffic citation, or probate court file routes through the court clerk, while a deed, mortgage release, recorded will, or marriage license usually routes through the County Clerk.

Trigg County Clerk Duties

Kentucky describes circuit court clerks as the officials responsible for custody, control, and safe storage of Circuit, Family, District, and Business Court records. In Trigg County, that means the clerk's office receives lawsuits and court papers, supports hearings and trials, schedules juries, receives fines, handles bond money, and helps the public locate case records that are open for inspection. The office also directs older-file requests when a case has moved from the courthouse to a records center or state archive.

• Circuit Court files, including felony, higher-value civil, appeals from District Court, and family-court matters where applicable
• District Court files, including misdemeanors, traffic, small claims, probate of wills, preliminary felony matters, and ordinance cases
• Jury information, court-event questions, fines, costs, and bond-money processing
• Local case-copy questions and older-record routing through the State Records Center or KDLA when needed

For in-person court business, the Justice Center is the office to use. The official page lists parking along the sides of the building, an accessible clerk's office, and elevator access to courtrooms. Circuit Court Motion & Rule Day is the second Wednesday, with Circuit Civil at 9 a.m. and Circuit Criminal at 1 p.m.; other motions and hearings should be checked with the clerk or judge's office before travel.

Request Trigg County Copies

Certified copies are issued by the custodian of the record. For Trigg County court case documents, start with Lisa Thomas's Circuit Court Clerk office. A certified copy may be needed when a court order, judgment, divorce decree, disposition, or probate order must be shown to another agency or court. A plain copy may be enough for personal research, but a certified copy adds the clerk's official certification. The research file did not locate a Trigg-specific court-copy fee schedule, so the fee, payment form, and delivery method should be confirmed with the clerk before submitting a request.

1. Identify the case as closely as possible. Use case number, party names, court division, filing year, citation number, or docket date if known.
2. Call the Circuit Court number for Circuit cases or the District Court number for District cases. If the case type is unclear, start with the Circuit Court Clerk office.
3. Ask whether the file is local, archived, sealed, restricted, or held by a state records facility. Older files may require locator details before copies can be requested.
4. Confirm the copy type, certification need, current fee, accepted payment method, and whether pickup, mail, or another delivery option is available.
5. Submit the request with enough identifying information for staff to locate the record. Do not assume that a name alone is enough for older State Records Center files.

For archived records, the Kentucky Court of Justice records request page explains that local clerks identify the records facility and provide case or file locator numbers. State Records Center requests require those locator numbers and may be submitted through the official state.records@ky.gov channel or by phone at 502-564-3617.

Trigg County Request Channels

Trigg County court records can be checked through several channels before a copy request is made. KYeCourts guest access provides statewide public case information. The statewide docket search shows scheduled court appearances and warns that the docket is subject to change. The clerk's office handles local copy and file-location questions by phone or in person. Older court files may move to the State Records Center or Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives after the local clerk identifies the case and locator information.

The County Clerk's web contact form is not a court-case request form, but it is useful for county records such as land records, marriage-license questions, delinquent tax records, and notary matters. The form inventory in the research identified required first name, last name, address, city, state, email, subject, and comments fields.

Trigg County Clerk Fees

The official Trigg research located several County Clerk costs and access notes, but it did not locate a Trigg-specific court copy or certification fee schedule for the Circuit Court Clerk. Court-copy costs should be confirmed before ordering. County-record costs are included here because many people reach the wrong clerk first, especially when they are looking for recorded wills, deeds, tax records, or marriage-license materials instead of a court case file.

The KYeCourts guest portal also links to payment of court fees, fines, or costs. Its public notice states that civil filing fees for Circuit and District Courts increase effective July 1, 2026 under Supreme Court Orders 2026-15 and 2026-18, so current filing costs should be checked with the clerk before filing.

County Clerk Split

The Trigg County Clerk is Carmen S. Finley, whose office is at 38 Main Street, P.O. Box 1310, Cadiz, KY 42211. That office posts Monday-Friday hours from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., a main and real-estate phone of 270-522-6661, a motor vehicle phone of 270-522-0217, fax 270-522-6662, and email carmen.finley@ky.gov. County Clerk records and services are valuable, but they are not the court case files kept by the Circuit Court Clerk.

• Land records, including deeds, mortgages, assignments, releases, and easements
• Marriage licenses and older local marriage-record questions
• Recorded wills and documents after probate actions
• Notary bonds, veterans discharge papers, delinquent taxes, elections, and motor vehicle work

The County Clerk reports that recorded land instruments date back to 1820. The legal recording page notes that land records are available for public viewing at the office, while the helpful links page points to Ecclix for online access and says in-office access is available at no charge.

The County Clerk staff page and contact form help with county-office matters, not court-case copies. Use that channel for land, vehicle, marriage-license, election, tax, or notary questions. Use the Circuit Court Clerk for court filings, case files, dockets, probate court files, traffic cases, misdemeanor files, felony files, divorce records, and certified court copies.

Online County Records

The County Clerk's online-records path is Ecclix, and the office also links Doc Alert and an Open Records Policy. The Ecclix portal is the paid online channel identified by the County Clerk for county records.

Ecclix is relevant to county-record research such as recorded instruments, but it does not replace the Circuit Court Clerk for court case files.

The delinquent tax page is tied to county tax certificates and tax-sale steps, not a court docket.

That county tax channel is separate from court fines, bond money, and costs handled through the Circuit Court Clerk and Kentucky Court of Justice payment systems.

The Trigg County Clerk about page gives the county office context and staff information.

Use that county-office information when the record is a county record; for a Trigg County court record, return to the Circuit Court Clerk at the Justice Center.

The County Clerk contact form is another county-record channel for non-court office questions.

Because that form is for the County Clerk, it should not be treated as a court-record request form for Circuit or District Court cases.

The County Clerk links Doc Alert, a service that can help monitor recorded-document activity.

Doc Alert connects to county recorded documents. It does not send hearing notices or replace court docket checks for pending Circuit or District Court cases.