Access Taylor County Circuit Clerk

Taylor County Circuit Clerk Office

The Kentucky Court of Justice lists the local court office as the Office of Circuit Court Clerk at the Taylor County Judicial Center. Circuit Court Clerk Susie Skaggs is named on the official county court page. The clerk phone is 270-465-6686, and the fax is 270-789-4356. This office is the practical records counter for Circuit Court and District Court case files, including civil, criminal, family, divorce, probate, traffic, small claims, juvenile, and domestic violence matters when access is allowed.

The clerk's role is different from the Taylor County Clerk at 203 North Court Street. The County Clerk handles land records, recordings, marriage licenses, vehicle-related filings, elections, and genealogy resources. The distinction is confirmed by the state structure map and by the research notes. Court users seeking a judgment, docket, sentence, divorce decree, probate filing, citation case, or certified court order should start with the Circuit Court Clerk rather than the County Clerk.

Taylor County Clerk Duties

The Circuit Court Clerk maintains court case records for the state trial courts operating in Taylor County. The office receives filings, helps route docket and copy questions, collects court payments where applicable, and provides local case-file information. The AOC background-check page makes one point especially clear: an AOC criminal record report is not the official court record. The official court record is housed in the Office of Circuit Court Clerk in the county where the case was filed.

• Maintain Circuit Court files such as felony, civil, family, divorce, and appeals from District Court.
• Maintain District Court files such as traffic, misdemeanor, small claims, eviction, probate, juvenile, and domestic violence matters.
• Answer local case-file and docket questions when public access is allowed.
• Route older records toward State Records Center or KDLA channels when files have moved from local custody.
• Support payment lookup and court-cost questions tied to KYeCourts ePay or local case records.

Request Taylor County Certified Copies

Certified court copies are used when a person needs proof of an official judgment, order, decree, disposition, sentence, or docket action. In Taylor County, a certified copy of a court record should be requested from the Circuit Court Clerk unless the file is old enough to require State Records Center or archive routing. If the request involves a marriage license or recorded deed, use the County Clerk instead.

1. Identify the case type, party names, approximate filing year, and case number if available.
2. Call 270-465-6686 to confirm whether the Taylor County Circuit Court Clerk has the file locally.
3. Ask for the current copy, certification, retrieval, and mailing fees before sending payment.
4. Submit the request in person or by the method the clerk gives, including a return address when mailed copies are needed.
5. If the file has moved, use the State Records Center or KDLA process with the locator numbers supplied through court-record channels.

Taylor County Request Field Inventory

The research did not locate a Taylor County-specific court copy form, so a request should include the fields the Circuit Court Clerk needs to identify the file. Older State Records Center requests are stricter because they require case and file locator numbers and cannot be searched by name or Social Security number. A clear request lowers the chance that the clerk must call back for basic identifiers.

Taylor County Circuit Clerk Fees

Some fee information in the research is statewide rather than local. The KYeCourts guest login and Kentucky Supreme Court fee orders noted that civil filing fees increase July 1, 2026, and search-result text for Order 2026-15 listed a Circuit civil filing fee of $188 with exceptions. The research also captured the AOC expungement certification mail fee and driver-record fees, but those are not ordinary court-copy charges. For certified court copies, the Circuit Court Clerk should quote the current per-page, certification, and mailing amounts.

Note: Do not use the County Clerk recording fee PDF for Circuit Court case-copy fees.

Taylor County Clerk Records Split

The assigned manifest includes Taylor County Clerk images because local users often confuse the court clerk with the county clerk. The Taylor County Clerk Recording Department states that recordings are lodged, assigned book and page numbers, indexed, scanned, and made available through a search engine. That workflow covers recorded instruments such as deeds, mortgages, assumed-name certificates, powers of attorney, veterans discharges, lis pendens, liens, and related filings. It does not make the County Clerk the custodian of Circuit Court criminal, civil, divorce, traffic, or probate case files.

The recording page is still important because land, lien, power-of-attorney, veterans discharge, and genealogy searches may support a court or probate question without being court records themselves.

Taylor County Online Clerk Channels

For court case records, the public online path starts with KYeCourts guest access. For recorded land and related county clerk instruments, the Taylor County Clerk links to the Taylor County document search portal. The research captured limited portal fields because the system is vendor-hosted and JavaScript-driven, so exact internal search fields should not be invented. The official clerk page states that the portal provides access to the computer index and corresponding images.

The Taylor County Clerk document search portal is the official linked portal for recorded instruments.

This portal is useful for County Clerk records, while court judgments and docket copies remain a Circuit Court Clerk or KYeCourts issue.

Taylor County Older Court Files

Older Taylor County court files may not be available at the public counter in the same way as active or recent cases. Kentucky Court of Justice directs some older case-record requests to the State Records Center, and the research notes that those requests require case and file locator numbers. They cannot be searched by name or Social Security number alone. That is why the local Circuit Court Clerk remains the first call even when the final copy may come from a state storage or archive channel.

If the clerk says a file has moved, ask for the case number, file locator number, court name, county, and any date range that will help the State Records Center or Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. If the case is sealed, expunged, juvenile, adoption-related, mental-health-related, or otherwise restricted, the clerk may not be able to provide the public copy requested. In those situations, access may require party status, attorney involvement, a court order, or a different official process.