Find Taylor County Marriage Records

Taylor County Marriage License Office

Marriage licenses in Taylor County are handled by the Taylor County Clerk, not by the Circuit Court Clerk. The County Clerk is listed at 203 North Court Street, Campbellsville, KY 42718, with phone 270-465-6677, fax 270-789-1144, email tcclerk@taylorcounty.us, and public hours Monday through Friday 8:00-4:30 plus Saturday 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. The clerk site includes a Marriage License menu item, but the detailed marriage license text was not available in the research capture. For that reason, applicants should call the clerk before visiting to confirm the current fee, accepted payment methods, and whether any local worksheet must be completed before the license is issued.

Kentucky county-clerk practice places the license application at the county clerk office. Both parties generally appear together, show government-issued identification, give personal and prior-marriage information, sign the application or oath, and receive a license valid for use in Kentucky. No blood test is required under the statewide practice described in official Kentucky clerk materials. Taylor County-specific instructions should still be confirmed with the local clerk because the accessible Taylor County page did not publish a full application checklist.

The Taylor County Clerk home page is the local starting point for marriage license contact details.

The clerk contact block matters because marriage-license questions, local payment rules, and older county marriage records start with that office.

Apply for Taylor County Marriage Records

Applicants should prepare for a county clerk counter process rather than a court filing. The Taylor County Clerk can confirm any local appointment policy, but the research supports an in-person license workflow with identity proof and payment. If either applicant has been married before, bring enough information to complete the prior-marriage field accurately. If either applicant is close to an age threshold, call first because Kentucky under-18 marriage rules involve court-related requirements under KRS 402.210 as cited by official Kentucky clerk pages.

1. Contact the Taylor County Clerk at 270-465-6677 or review the clerk site before visiting so the fee and payment method are current.
2. Go to the County Clerk at 203 North Court Street with both applicants present unless the clerk gives a different instruction.
3. Bring government-issued identification and the personal details needed for the marriage license application.
4. Complete the license fields, prior-marriage questions, oath, and signatures required by the clerk.
5. Pay the Taylor County marriage license fee and ask how soon the completed marriage return will be recorded after the ceremony.

Note: The research did not locate an accessible Taylor County fee amount, so the clerk's current quote controls.

Taylor County Marriage Application Fields

The exact Taylor County worksheet was not captured, but the research identified the fields expected from Kentucky county-clerk practice and from official application references. Treat the table as a preparation inventory, not as a substitute for the clerk's current form. It is still useful because most delays at the counter come from missing identification, incomplete prior-marriage details, or uncertainty about whether an age rule applies.

Taylor County Marriage and Divorce Fees

Fee handling is split just like the records. Taylor County marriage-license costs are local County Clerk charges. Divorce case and decree copy costs are court clerk costs. State certified certificates are Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics charges. The research file flagged the local Taylor County marriage license fee as not available in accessible official text, so the table uses the official source channel instead of inventing amounts.

Search Taylor County Marriage Records

For a local marriage license or older marriage entry, start with the Taylor County Clerk. The County Clerk's recording resources include genealogy uses, and the office is the local custodian for marriage licenses. The clerk site also links to a document-search system for recorded instruments, but the research did not capture a marriage-specific online index. A practical search should use names, approximate date, and whether the requested record is a license record, a certified certificate, or genealogical proof.

The Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics is the state certificate channel. OVS states that it maintains marriage records from June 1958 to the present. For Taylor County marriages before June 1958, OVS directs users back to the county clerk where the license was issued. OVS office hours are Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Eastern, excluding official state holidays, and requests are processed in the order received.

The Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics home page is the statewide certified-copy source for vital records.

The state office is useful when a standard certificate is enough, but it does not replace the County Clerk for older Taylor County license research.

Find Taylor County Divorce Records

Divorce records are court records. In Taylor County, the full divorce file, decree, pleadings, custody orders, and property orders should be requested through the Office of Circuit Court Clerk at the Taylor County Judicial Center, 300 E. Main St., Campbellsville, KY 42718. The phone number is 270-465-6686. A person who only needs a certified divorce certificate from June 1958 forward may use OVS, but a certificate is not the same as the full court case. The full case can include petitions, motions, notices, orders, decrees, and related docket entries.

Some divorce material may be restricted or redacted. Social Security numbers, financial-account numbers, child-related details, sealed filings, and protected personal information should not be expected in a public copy. If the divorce is old, the Circuit Court Clerk may need to identify case or file locator information before a State Records Center or Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives request can proceed.

Taylor County Certified Copies

A certified copy is used when an agency, court, school, passport office, benefits office, or financial institution needs proof that the record is official. For Taylor County marriage certificates from June 1958 forward and Taylor County divorce certificates from June 1958 forward, OVS is the statewide certificate source. For a local marriage license record, call the Taylor County Clerk. For a certified divorce decree or signed order, call the Taylor County Circuit Court Clerk.

The Kentucky marriage and divorce certificates page states the June 1958-present certificate coverage.

The certificate page helps separate state certificates from courthouse case files, which is the main source of confusion in divorce-record requests.

Older Taylor County Marriage Records

Older Taylor County marriage and divorce records need special care because the statewide certificate channel does not cover every year. OVS states that its marriage and divorce certificate files begin in June 1958. Before that date, a marriage search should go to the county clerk in the county where the license was issued. For Taylor County, that means the Taylor County Clerk. A divorce decree search before June 1958 should go to the circuit court clerk in the county where the decree was granted, which means the Taylor County Circuit Court Clerk for local divorce cases.

Genealogy and family-history searches may involve more than one office. The Taylor County Clerk Recording Department says its records room is a resource for genealogical research, and the clerk's recording workflow assigns book and page numbers to recorded documents. A marriage record may be held through clerk marriage-license records, while a later estate, deed, lien, or power of attorney may appear in recorded instruments. A divorce file is different because it is a court case, so the Circuit Court Clerk is the starting point for decrees and case papers.

Kentucky Vital Records Office

Kentucky OVS is the certificate channel for Taylor County marriage and divorce records from June 1958 to the present. It processes requests in the order received and warns that unexpected delays may prevent same-day service. Older marriage records go back to the county clerk where the license was issued. Older divorce decrees go back to the circuit court clerk in the county where the decree was granted.