Locate Dubois County Clerk Records

Dubois County Clerk of the Courts

Dubois County has a unified Clerk of the Courts rather than a split district clerk and county clerk structure. The official county Clerk page lists Amy L. Kippenbrock as Clerk of Courts. The office of County Clerk is elected and serves a four-year term. In court-record terms, the Clerk is the public counter and records administrator for the county's trial-court files, including civil, juvenile, criminal, family, probate, traffic, and small-claims records handled through Dubois Circuit Court and Dubois Superior Court.

The Dubois County Clerk contact page provides the office address, main phone, clerk phone, clerk email, and staff contact list. The same courthouse also houses the Circuit Court and Superior Court counters, which keeps most trial-court records access centralized in Jasper.

The county's contact page is the source for direct Clerk office routing.

The official Clerk contact page shows where Dubois County residents request clerk service and contact staff.

Use that contact source for the Clerk's current office phone and email before sending a copy request.

Dubois County Clerk Record Duties

The county describes the Clerk as more than a records counter. The Clerk files, records, and enters all orders from civil, juvenile, and criminal courts. The office probates wills and testaments, issues marriage licenses, receives and pays out money collected from support payments, collects fines and court costs, and administers official court records for all trial court cases. That makes the Clerk a central office for court records even when a judge, court reporter, sheriff, or prosecutor created part of the underlying case history.

• File, record, and enter court orders from civil, juvenile, and criminal courts.
• Administer official trial-court records for Dubois Circuit Court and Dubois Superior Court.
• Issue marriage licenses and certified marriage-license copies.
• Probate wills and testaments for Circuit Court probate matters.
• Collect fines, fees, court costs, and court-related payments.
• Serve on the Board of Election and County Election Board.

The same office duties explain why certified copies and many court-record questions route to the Clerk rather than directly to a judge.

Request Dubois County Certified Copies

Certified copies are used when a plain printout is not enough. A certified pleading or decree carries the Clerk's certification, and an exemplified copy adds a higher authentication level. In Dubois County, the Clerk's Office is the practical channel for certified court copies, marriage-license copies, older records not available online, and case documents that cannot be downloaded from MyCase. A party should first identify the record type and the case or license information, then ask the Clerk for the copy level needed.

1. Search Indiana MyCase if the case number, court, party names, or filing date are not already known.
2. Confirm whether the requested item is a court pleading, decree, marriage license, probate filing, or another record type.
3. Contact the Clerk's Office by counter, phone, mail, or email with the case details and copy type.
4. Pay the plain copy, certification, exemplification, or marriage-license copy fee that applies.
5. Use the Clerk's Public Record Request Form when a formal request is needed for a record not otherwise available.

Note: A MyCase docket entry may help identify a record, but it is not a certified copy from the Clerk.

Dubois County Clerk Form Inventory

The Clerk paperwork page lists forms and packets, but the research did not capture each PDF field. The safer way to describe the form inventory is by form name and use, without claiming a field is required unless it appears in the captured source. The form route is still important because it documents the official local channels for public-record requests, estate claims, ticket review, self-represented divorce, small claims, and hearing requests.

The Clerk paperwork source is the official place to check the available packets.

The Clerk paperwork page lists the Dubois County records request and court form routes.

Because direct PDF field inventories were not captured, requesters should read the current form before filing or mailing it.

Dubois County Clerk Fees

Dubois County publishes both copy fees and filing fees through the Clerk. Copy fees matter for people who already have a case or license record and need a plain, certified, or exemplified copy. Filing fees matter when starting a civil, divorce, probate, guardianship, adoption, traffic, small-claims, or diversion matter. The table below combines the local fees most relevant to Clerk records and certified-copy service.

The fee schedule is published by the county for court costs and filings.

The court cost and filing fee page gives Dubois County Clerk records users the current fee categories.

Confirm the current amount with the Clerk before filing, especially when service fees or extra defendants apply.

Dubois County Clerk Marriage Records

The Clerk issues marriage licenses and provides certified marriage-license copies. The marriage page directs couples to pre-apply through the Indiana portal and then come to the Clerk's Office to finish paperwork. Marriage-license hours differ from general county office hours. Applicants use the Clerk for identification review, residency rules, fee payment, and the issued license. Certified copies of marriage licenses are available in the Clerk's office for $4.00 each.

The marriage license source is separate from the general Clerk page.

The Dubois County marriage license page shows the Clerk's marriage records rules, hours, fees, and pre-application route.

Marriage record users should use the license page for application rules and the Clerk counter for certified copies.

Dubois County E-Filing Since 2017

Dubois County has had mandatory e-filing since August 25, 2017. The Indiana Judicial Branch Dubois County page states that attorneys are required to e-file in this county and others are encouraged to e-file. E-filing affects how new pleadings enter the court file, but it does not replace the Clerk's role as the administrator of official trial-court records. For public case lookup, MyCase is the statewide public portal. For certified copies, older documents, formal public-record requests, and non-online documents, the Clerk remains the official local route.

Modern court users often need both systems. MyCase can identify the case number, court, status, filing date, and docket history where public. The Clerk can provide the official copy or tell a requester how to proceed when a document is not available online. Attorneys must follow e-filing rules, while self-represented people should check the Clerk paperwork page and Indiana court instructions before filing.

Dubois County Historical Clerk Records

Older records have a local access path through the Dubois County Records Library. The Records Library is in the basement of the courthouse and lists civil, probate/estate, criminal, wills, and marriage records from 1839 to current. It also lists deeds, old survey books, plats, miscellaneous records, land transfer books, grantee and grantor indexes, commissioners record books, and genealogy records. That makes the library useful when a record is too old for routine online case access.

All county records before August 1839 were destroyed in a fire. That fact should guide historical searches, especially for probate, marriage, civil, criminal, and genealogy records.

The Dubois County Records Library page identifies the courthouse basement collection for older clerk and court records.

For records before modern systems, the Records Library may be more useful than an online case search.

Dubois County Clerk Election Duties

The Clerk also serves in local election administration. The county describes the Clerk as a member and secretary of the County Election Board. Election duties include administering elections, overseeing, conducting, and certifying election results, issuing certificates of election to successful local candidates, controlling voter registration, and administering oaths of office to appointed officers. These duties are separate from court-record copy service, but they explain why the Clerk's Office appears in both court and election contexts.

The Clerk FAQ is useful for several practical record questions, including marriage-license location, bond refunds, birth-certificate routing, and the limit on warrant information from the Clerk.

The Clerk common questions page gives Dubois County residents practical records answers tied to the office.

FAQ answers can route a requester to the correct office before a copy or case question is sent to the Clerk.