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Posey County Clerk Office

The official county office page names Kay Kilgore as Clerk of the Posey Circuit/Superior Courts. That wording matters because Posey County does not split court records between separate district and county clerks. One elected clerk office serves both the Circuit Court and Superior Court clerk counters, so a person asking for a court file, marriage-license copy, traffic payment record, or filing-fee answer can start with the same clerk phone line.

Posey County court business is divided between two Mount Vernon locations. Circuit Court clerk work is handled at the Main Street courthouse counter, while Superior Court clerk work is handled at the Third Street location. Both counters use the same clerk phone number and official clerk email. The clerk page also links public case records to MyCase, which means the online search and the local copy desk work together rather than replacing one another.

Posey County Clerk Duties

The Posey County Clerk of the Posey Circuit/Superior Courts receives filings, keeps court records, collects many court fees, and supports public access to local case information. The official clerk page lists court filings, traffic payments, marriage licenses, passports, election-related work, and public case access through MyCase. The clerk does not decide cases or give legal advice. The clerk's role is to process filings and preserve the court record so the case file can be searched, copied, and certified when public access rules allow it.

Most record questions fall into a few practical groups. A public user may need a case number, a certified judgment, a divorce decree, a marriage copy, a traffic receipt, or a copy of a filing that is not available online. The fastest path is usually to search MyCase first, then contact the clerk with the case number, party names, document type, and copy need. When a hearing date, continuance, or judge-specific question is involved, the court office may need to answer instead.

• File and index court papers for Posey Circuit Court and Posey Superior Court.
• Provide public case access through Indiana MyCase and local clerk-copy channels.
• Collect filing fees, traffic payments, copy fees, and certification charges listed by the county.
• Issue and record Posey County marriage licenses after the state online application is completed.
• Support passport, election, and other clerk duties identified on county office pages.

Posey County Record Channels

Public case information begins with MyCase, where Indiana courts provide free statewide case search and some documents. The Indiana Judicial Branch says users can find case information and some documents at MyCase. If the needed document is missing, the local court or clerk is the fallback. This is common for older records, documents not loaded into the public portal, certified copies, and records with access limits.

The clerk accepts in-person questions at both court counters and can be reached by phone. Marriage-copy requests may be made by phone or email under the county's marriage-license instructions. Traffic mail payments go to the Circuit Court clerk address and must use the payment methods the county lists. For other mailed copy requests, the safer practice is to call first, confirm the fee and copy type, and include enough case detail for staff to find the record.

The federal court screenshot assigned to this clerk page comes from the Southern District of Indiana Evansville Division page.

That federal image helps draw the line between county clerk files and federal records, since Posey County federal cases are not copied through the local clerk.

Request Posey County Certified Copies

A certified copy is a clerk-stamped copy that proves the copy came from the court record. It may be needed for a divorce decree, judgment, name-change order, guardianship order, estate document, marriage record, or another legal use. An online document image may be useful for review, but it is not the same as a certified copy unless the clerk issues it as certified.

1. Search MyCase or your own papers for the case number, court, party names, and document name. If the case is older or not online, use the best party-name and date range available.
2. Call or visit the Clerk of the Posey Circuit/Superior Courts to confirm whether the document can be copied, whether certification is available, and what fee applies.
3. Submit the request through the channel the clerk confirms. For in-person requests, bring identification and enough information to locate the file. For mail, include contact details and payment as instructed.
4. Ask whether the copy will be plain, certified, or exemplified. A certified copy is the common legal-record need, while other forms may be required for out-of-state use.
5. Review the copy before leaving the counter or before using it in another agency process. Names, case number, seal, and certification date should match the requested record.

Posey County Copy Fields

Posey County research did not locate a separate online court-copy request form. A written request should still use the same fields a clerk needs to identify and produce the record. The case number is the best locator. Party names, document type, and court name help when the number is not known or when the case has several similar filings.

Posey County Clerk Fees

The county clerk page posts filing fees for common case types and separate marriage-copy amounts. Those fees are useful when planning a filing or asking why a receipt includes court costs. The research did not locate a complete plain-copy or certified court-document fee table beyond marriage copy and certification charges, so users should confirm copy charges before mailing payment.

Posey County Clerk Forms

The clerk's office links common public resources rather than publishing one local form packet for every case type. Marriage applicants start in the state marriage portal, then appear together at the clerk. Divorce, guardianship, small-claims, protective-order, and other self-help forms may be linked through Indiana Legal Help or state court resources from county pages. The correct form path depends on the case type and whether a lawyer is involved.

Traffic payments are more prescriptive. If a person admits the violation, the county traffic page says a money order or cashier's check can be mailed to Posey County Circuit Court Clerk, 300 Main St., Room 115, Mount Vernon, IN 47620. Personal checks are not accepted for mailed traffic payments. Payment must arrive before the court date, or the person must appear in court and a license suspension may follow.

The assigned PACER image comes from the PACER Southern District of Indiana lookup.

It reinforces that federal CM/ECF records use PACER, while Posey County court copies remain a local clerk and MyCase issue.

Posey County Online Limits

MyCase is the main public portal for Posey County court records, but it does not make every file or every document public. Indiana court access rules exclude some records from public access, and older documents may not be imaged online. The official MyCase help material also separates public access from party and attorney access, which can affect what documents a signed-in party or attorney can see.

Records involving juveniles, CHINS matters, adoptions, mental-health treatment, protected identifiers, and sealed or expunged criminal records can be restricted. In those situations, the clerk may be able to say that a record is not publicly available, but staff cannot disclose confidential content to a general requester. If a document is public but not online, the local clerk remains the right copy channel.

The final assigned clerk image is from the Southern District of Indiana case-search information page.

Federal search guidance belongs to federal cases, so county users should not ask Kay Kilgore's office for PACER filings or bankruptcy records.