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Meriwether Clerk of Superior Court

Kyemeshia T. Gibson is the Meriwether County Clerk of Superior Court. The office serves Superior and Juvenile courts from 100 North Court Square, P.O. Box 160, Greenville, GA 30222. The phone number is 706-672-4416, and the fax number is 706-672-2679. The Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority profile lists the office hours as 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, county code 99, and the legal organ as the Meriwether Vindicator.

The Clerk of Superior Court should not be confused with Meriwether County Clerk Allyson Stephens, who handles county-government open records and meeting compliance. The County Clerk page routes criminal, civil, divorce, and child-custody court records to the Clerk of Superior Court at 706-672-4416. Sheriff's reports and investigative records are routed to the Sheriff's Office. That routing should be followed before filing a general county open-records request.

Meriwether Clerk Record Duties

The Clerk's Court Info page divides the office into civil, criminal, real estate, juvenile, jury, trade-name, notary, and lien functions. The Civil Division files, processes, stores, and retrieves Superior Court civil records. It also manages appeal records, mails court calendars to counsel and parties, prepares civil cost bills, manages the adoption docket, and scans all civil proceedings into the computer system.

• Criminal Division files misdemeanor and felony criminal cases, citations, accusations, indictments, pleadings, bond forfeitures, grand jury presentments, and prisoner reports.
• Juvenile Division handles Clerk records for deprivation, unruly conduct, delinquency, and certain minor traffic matters under Georgia juvenile law.
• Real Estate Division records land transactions, plats, liens, lis pendens notices, preliminary notices of lien rights, and notices of commencement.
• Jury Services maintains jury records, summons lists, days served, work excuses, and juror payment records.
• Trade name and notary services are handled through Clerk and GSCCCA processes, with online notary application steps.

The Clerk site says all court pleadings, Superior criminal cases, warrants, and jury lists are scanned. That local detail is useful when a record is not easy to find online, because the office may still have an internal scanned image or index path.

Meriwether Clerk Online Records

The Clerk homepage links to Case Search, court calendars, legal forms, legal notices, jury information, and official links. The Case Search link points to the Clerk's WebCaseManagement portal, but the research inspection found repeated redirects and could not confirm the full field list. If the portal does not load, call the Clerk instead of assuming the record does not exist. Current calendar links are also public through the Clerk court-calendar page, including civil and criminal calendar materials.

Statewide and document-specific channels supplement the local Clerk site. GSCCCA search tools cover real estate, UCC, liens, plats, notary indexes, PT-61 items, and certified-search functions. GSCCCA eCertification supports digital certified document requests and authentication-code lookup. Kofile provides a Georgia land-record portal with Meriwether County as a selectable county, but those land-record systems are not the same as a criminal or divorce case docket.

The GSCCCA Meriwether clerk profile is the statewide authority source for local clerk details.

The profile confirms the elected clerk, court coverage, office hours, county code, and Clerk Authority contact context for Meriwether County.

Request Certified Clerk Copies

Certified copies are official copies with a clerk certification, often needed for legal filing, appeal records, divorce decrees, name-change proof, title issues, or out-of-county use. A plain photocopy or online image may be helpful for reading a file, but it may not satisfy an agency, court, or title company. Start by identifying the document and custodian before requesting certification.

1. Identify the case or record type: Superior civil, criminal, divorce, custody, juvenile, real estate, lien, plat, jury, trade name, or notary.
2. Gather the case number if known, party names, filing year, document title, and whether a plain or certified copy is needed.
3. Try the Clerk's case-search or calendar tools for public case clues, then call 706-672-4416 if the portal does not show the file.
4. Ask the Clerk whether the record can be certified locally, through GSCCCA eCertification, or through a land-record search system.
5. Pay the current copy, certification, search, filing, service, or mailing fee required by the custodian.

Note: Juvenile, adoption, sealed, and restricted records may require party status, attorney involvement, or a court order before copies are issued.

Meriwether Clerk Request Fields

The research did not locate a single court-record request form with a full visible field list for the Clerk. A good Meriwether County Clerk of Superior Court request should still include the details that staff need to identify the file. For county-government open records, the County Clerk page states that written requests give requesters additional time and cost accountabilities under the Open Records Act and that the county will notify the requester within three days about availability. Court records, however, should first go through court-record channels.

Meriwether Clerk Fee Schedule

The Clerk's Court Info page lists several filing and service amounts. Copy and certification charges were not found in the inspected text, so those should be confirmed before ordering. Civil and domestic filings can also involve service, transfer, class, or form requirements that depend on the case. The fee table below uses only amounts documented in the Meriwether research.

Meriwether Clerk Forms and Notices

The Clerk's legal forms and legal notices pages support several record workflows. The forms page routes users to civil, criminal, and other filing forms. Legal notices include the Superior Courts of Georgia cost schedule, Filing Activity Notification System information, notary instructions, notary changes effective January 1, 2025, UCC forms notice, civil case filing and disposition forms, parenting class notices, and plat filing requirements. Those notices matter for people filing a divorce, recording land documents, using a notary application, or monitoring property filings.

Digital certified-document access is handled through GSCCCA eCertification.

eCertification is useful when a participating digital certified document is accepted for the user's purpose, while local Clerk staff remain the key contact for case-specific questions.

Meriwether Court Clerk vs County Clerk

The split between the Clerk of Superior Court and the County Clerk is one of the most important local record rules. The County Clerk, Allyson Stephens, handles county open-meeting compliance and county-government open-records requests at 17234 Roosevelt Highway, Building B, Greenville, GA 30222. The county open-records email is openrecords@meriwethercountyga.gov, and the County Clerk phone is 706-672-1314 ext. 3460. That office states that the Open Records Act covers production, inspection, and duplication of existing records, not the creation of new documents or spreadsheets.

For Superior and Juvenile court files, use the Clerk of Superior Court. For Sheriff's Office reports or investigative material, use the Sheriff's Office. For Probate Court filings, use probate channels. Using the correct custodian saves time and prevents a request from being redirected after the three-day county response window starts.