Access Bath County Circuit Court Clerk

Bath County Circuit Court Clerk

Kentucky has a split clerk structure in Bath County. The primary court-records clerk is the elected Circuit Court Clerk, Claudette Faudere. Kentucky Court of Justice says circuit court clerks are elected in each county, serve six-year terms, and are responsible for custody, control, and safe storage of Circuit Court and District Court records. The clerk receives lawsuits and court documents, is present during trials, schedules juries, receives fines, and handles bond money.

The official KCOJ Bath County page lists the Office of Circuit Court Clerk at the Bath County Judicial Center. That office is the correct place for Bath County court case copies, certified court records, court-date verification, District Court probate filings, traffic case files, criminal case files, divorce case files, and older court-record routing. Do not send those requests to the County Clerk unless the record is a County Clerk record.

Bath County Court Clerk Duties

The Circuit Court Clerk's role follows the Kentucky Court of Justice structure. Circuit Court is Bath County's general-jurisdiction trial court for felonies, civil matters over $5,000, divorces, contested probate, real-property title disputes, injunctions, and appeals from District Court or administrative agencies. District Court handles misdemeanors, traffic, violations, probate of wills, small claims up to $2,500, civil cases up to $5,000, juvenile matters, mental-health commitments, and domestic violence cases. The Circuit Court Clerk is the local records custodian for both levels.

• Accepts court filings and pleadings for Circuit Court and District Court cases.
• Maintains court case records, dockets, orders, judgments, dispositions, and copy requests.
• Receives fines, costs, and bond money when handled through the court clerk.
• Schedules and supports jury activity for Bath County court proceedings.
• Verifies court dates and case-copy access when online docket results are incomplete or stale.

Bath County Clerk Case Records

Court case records are not the same as County Clerk land or marriage records. For Bath County, the Circuit Court Clerk handles Circuit Court, Family/Circuit matters where applicable, District Court, traffic, misdemeanor, felony probable-cause stages, felony files, divorce files, probate filings, small claims, judgments, and court orders. Public information may be searchable in statewide KYeCourts tools, but complete case files and certified copies remain with the court custodian.

Request Bath County Certified Copies

Certified court copies are used when a plain online result is not enough. A certified judgment, disposition, divorce decree, probate order, or traffic disposition should come from the clerk that holds the court case. KCOJ's Request Court Records page says Circuit, Family, District, and Business Court records should be requested from the Office of Circuit Court Clerk in the county where the case was handled.

1. Identify the court, case type, party names, and case number if known.
2. Search KYeCourts or the docket portal first if a public case number or court date is needed.
3. Call the Bath Circuit Court Clerk at 606-674-2186 or 606-674-6821 to confirm copy availability and current fee.
4. Ask whether the document can be copied locally or must be requested from storage.
5. Pay the required fee and request certification if the copy must be used for an official purpose.

Note: A printed docket page is not a certified copy of the official court record.

Bath County Records Request Fields

No Bath-specific Circuit Court Clerk copy-request form was located in the research. The reliable request method is to contact the office with enough identifying information for staff to locate the file. For old records at the State Records Center, KCOJ says requests require case and file locator numbers and cannot be searched by name or Social Security number.

Bath County Clerk Fees

The Bath-specific research did not locate current court-copy fees for the Circuit Court Clerk. It did locate several adjacent fee rules that matter for court-record users. For court case copies, verify current charges with the Bath Circuit Court Clerk before ordering. For criminal-history reports, use the AOC Background Checks process. For expungement petitions, the official AOC forms provide the filing-fee notes.

Older Bath County Court Records

Older Bath County court records may not be at the public counter. KCOJ explains that records at the State Records Center require both case and file locator numbers, and those records cannot be searched by name or Social Security number. The practical path is to ask the Bath Circuit Court Clerk first, then use State Records Center or Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives instructions only after the local clerk identifies where the record is stored.

For public online searching, Bath County uses statewide Kentucky Court of Justice tools rather than a Bath-only portal. The guest Public Court Records portal provides free public case information after captcha. The docket portal lets users select Bath, choose Circuit or District, pick a date, and submit a docket search, but the result is not the official docket and must be verified through the clerk.

County Clerk Records Are Different

Bath County also has a separate County Clerk, Roger Coyle. His office handles motor vehicle licensing, voter registration, elections, land records, marriage licenses, notary bonds, delinquent real-estate taxes, recorded wills after probate, deeds, liens, and open-records requests for Clerk-held county records. That office is profiled separately because the records do not belong to the Circuit Court Clerk.

Use the Bath County County Clerk page for marriage licenses, recorded wills, land records, liens, elections, motor vehicle records, and County Clerk open-records channels. Use the Circuit Court Clerk for court case files, docket verification, certified court copies, fines, bonds, jury, and District Court probate filings.