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Paulding County Clerk Contact

The Paulding County Clerk of Superior Court is a constitutionally mandated office responsible for maintaining official records of the Superior Court of Paulding County. The current clerk listed in the research is Sheila M. Butler, and the GSCCCA listing identifies her as the Paulding County Clerk of Superior Court, elected in 2019, county code 110. The chief deputy clerk is Lori Jennings.

The Clerk of Superior Court handles the broad court-record set: civil and criminal case files, real estate documents, other vital records, and the jury system. In practice, the same Room 1023 public counter and phone number also matter for State Court case questions because the county's State Court clerk page points users to the same case website and the same public-facing records phone number.

The GSCCCA clerk listing adds useful local verification facts. It lists Paulding County as county code 110, names the legal organ as the Dallas New Era, and gives a GSCCCA fax number of 678-224-4750 in addition to the county page's 770-505-3863 fax listing. Because two fax numbers appear in official-source research, callers should confirm the correct destination before sending time-sensitive copy requests or filings.

What Paulding County Clerk Handles

The primary clerk page should be read with Georgia's court map in mind. Paulding County's Superior Court is the general jurisdiction trial court for felonies, divorce, equity, land-title matters, and broad civil jurisdiction. The Clerk of Superior Court keeps the records that flow from those cases. State Court has a separate Clerk of State Court page for civil, criminal, and traffic divisions, but the county research resolved no secondary clerk page for this build.

The State Court clerk context still belongs here because users often begin with a case type rather than a court name. A misdemeanor, traffic citation, or State Court civil matter may use the Clerk of State Court workflow, while a felony, divorce, equity, or title-to-land case points back to Superior Court. The public phone number, public room, case-management link, and many copy questions overlap in the county material, so the first practical step is identifying the case type.

Real estate and jury records are also part of the Superior Court clerk profile in the county source. Those categories may not look like ordinary lawsuits, but they still explain why this clerk office is a core records stop for Paulding County residents.

• Maintains Superior Court civil and criminal case files.
• Maintains divorce records filed in Superior Court.
• Maintains real estate documents and other vital records listed by the county.
• Supports the jury system for Paulding County court operations.
• Provides a public case-management route linked from county pages.
• Works alongside State Court clerk functions for misdemeanor, traffic, and concurrent civil matters.

The assigned image set includes the Silver Comet Trail county information page, a county context source rather than a clerk-record portal.

County context pages help orient local users, but case files and certified copies still route to the clerk offices and official court systems.

Request Certified Clerk Copies

A certified copy is a court or record copy bearing official certification. It is often needed for legal filing, agency review, name-change proof, property work, or case enforcement. Paulding County users can start with the county case-management portal for case identification, then request certified copies through the Clerk of Superior Court or, when available, through GSCCCA eCertification. Existing certified electronic documents can also be authenticated by document code through the GSCCCA portal.

1. Identify the court first: Superior Court for felony, divorce, equity, title-to-land, and broad civil matters; State Court for misdemeanor, traffic, and concurrent civil matters.
2. Search the county-linked case-management portal when the case is likely in Superior or State Court.
3. Write down the case number, party names, document title, and filing date if known.
4. Contact the Clerk of Superior Court in Room 1023 or by phone for certified copy requirements and current fees.
5. Use GSCCCA eCertification when a participating certified electronic document is available.
6. For older, restricted, or non-digitized records, ask the clerk whether in-person review, party status, or a court order is required.

The county's Drug Court page is one successful image source assigned to the clerk page and shows a court program that can generate Superior Court records.

Specialty court program pages are useful context because the clerk's file is where many filed orders, pleas, and case events are preserved.

Clerk Request Field Checklist

The research did not identify a single public Clerk of Superior Court request form with fixed fields. A useful request still has a predictable set of details. Missing case numbers slow the search, so names, dates, court type, and document names should be supplied as clearly as possible. For criminal cases, the county's case-search instructions say to use last name comma first name when no case number is known and to include the dashes in the six-digit case-number format when a case number is known.

Paulding County Clerk Fee Schedule

The research file contains several useful local fee rules, but it does not provide a full Clerk of Superior Court certified-copy schedule. The table below separates known local fees from related court and records charges. Confirm current clerk copy and certification amounts before ordering, especially for large files, certified decrees, older records, or mailed requests.

The Accountability Courts page is another successful clerk-page image source and describes programs whose filed court events may appear in case records.

Program pages do not replace clerk fee confirmation, but they explain why a case file may contain specialty court orders and compliance events.

Online Filing and Copy Channels

Paulding County research identifies several electronic channels. The Clerk case-management portal is linked by the county for viewing all cases. The county's CASE SEARCH page gives criminal search instructions, including last name comma first name when no criminal case number is known, the dashed case-number format, and the green plus sign used to view pleadings. The portal itself returned a 403 response during command-line inspection, so the county's own instructions are the reliable source for search behavior.

Certified electronic copies route through GSCCCA eCertification when the document is available there. State Court civil e-filing uses PeachCourt. State criminal e-filing uses EZ-File. Magistrate small claims and landlord/tenant e-filing uses NCourt/Pauldingcourt.com. Traffic payment is separate from filing, with eligible citations paid online through the county-linked traffic payment route, by mail, or in person. Sheriff's incident, accident, and arrest reports are not clerk case files and use the Sheriff's Records Division open-records process.

That split prevents a common records mistake. Filing a civil complaint through an e-filing channel is different from ordering a certified copy of a filed order. Paying an eligible traffic citation is different from viewing every document in the traffic case. Requesting a Sheriff's arrest report is different from searching the court charge record after prosecution begins. The clerk page is most useful when the user has a court filing, court order, judgment, decree, or certification request.

The assigned image list also includes the PACER bankruptcy court lookup for the Northern District of Georgia Bankruptcy Court.

PACER is a federal court system, so it should be used for federal bankruptcy records, not Paulding County Superior Court or State Court files.

Note: The failed manifest rows for a Drug Court PDF and bankruptcy court homepage had no usable image filename, so they are not displayed.