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Marshall County Circuit Clerk Offices

Circuit Clerk Angie Johnson serves Alabama's Twenty-Seventh Judicial Circuit in Marshall County. She took office on January 15, 2019 after years of work connected to district-attorney offices in Marshall and Shelby counties. The official Circuit Clerk biography describes her court-system background and local service.

The Guntersville office is in the Marshall County Courthouse and has the public access computer for court-record searches. The Albertville division routes divorce, child support and protection-from-abuse, and juvenile calls. Both courthouse offices publish weekday hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The split matters because a visitor may save a trip by calling the division that handles the record first.

Marshall County Clerk Record Duties

The Circuit Clerk receives filings, maintains state trial-court case files, routes court business by division, provides available case information, and handles costs or payments assigned to the office. The office is not the custodian for every public record in Marshall County. Probate cases, land indexes, recordings, and marriage certificates go to the separately elected Probate Judge. Municipal courts keep city traffic, ordinance, and misdemeanor records.

• Circuit Civil and District Civil records, including evictions and small claims
• District Criminal, Circuit Criminal, and county traffic records
• Divorce, child support, protection-from-abuse, and juvenile routing
• Jury functions, absentee election functions, and passport routing
• Case schedules, public file information, and court-record copy requests

The official phone directory routes Guntersville calls by option: traffic and conservation at 1; drug court and worthless checks at 2; District Criminal at 3; Circuit Criminal at 4; absentee elections at 5; jury at 6; Circuit Civil at 7; and District Civil, evictions, small claims, and passports at 8. Albertville uses option 1 for divorce, 2 for child support and protection from abuse, and 3 for juvenile.

Mail routes depend on the task. Traffic payments and civil certified-mail service instructions use Circuit Clerk, 424 Blount Avenue, Suite 201, Guntersville, AL 35976. Traffic mail has its own plea and payment rules, while civil service requires prepared postal materials for a post-office box or out-of-state address. Call the division before mailing an ordinary copy request so the package includes the right fee and return instructions.

Request Certified Marshall County Clerk Copies

A certified copy bears the Clerk's official certification and may be needed when another court, agency, or legal process requires an authenticated filing or order. A portal case report is not automatically a certified document. Start with the case number when possible, plus party names, division, and the exact document.

1. Identify whether the case is Circuit, District, domestic relations, juvenile, traffic, or municipal.
2. Use Alacourt ACCESS, the county docket, or the public computer to locate a case number when the record is publicly searchable.
3. Call the correct Clerk division and name the document, such as a judgment, order, or divorce decree.
4. Ask for the current certification and copy charge, payment method, and pickup or mail options.
5. Submit the details and payment as directed, then verify that the returned copy carries the certification needed.

Older, sealed, confidential, or non-electronic files may require direct staff review. Juvenile and other restricted records are not available as ordinary public copies. For a city case, contact that city's municipal clerk instead of the county Circuit Clerk.

Marshall County Request Form Fields

Court case-file requests go to the Circuit Clerk division. Marshall County also publishes a Commission Records Request Form for non-court county records. It is not a substitute for a court-copy request, but its field inventory shows the details the county expects for a formal public-record request. The form says a picture ID is required.

For a court record, add the case number, party names, court division, document title, and number of copies even though those fields belong to the Clerk request rather than the Commission form. Specific details reduce the chance that staff will search the wrong file.

Marshall County Circuit Clerk Fees

Local Circuit Civil and District Civil pages publish filing and process charges. These are not a complete certified-copy schedule. Confirm the current amount for the service and number of defendants before filing. The following figures are the researched local charges.

District Civil adds $10.00 for each additional defendant and $50.00 for additional plaintiffs, capped at $500. A non-jury District Civil appeal to Circuit Court is at least $202.00; a jury appeal is at least $302.00. Certified-copy costs were not captured, so obtain that quote directly.

Other listed civil charges include $30.00 for a writ of possession and $30.00 for an attachment. Circuit Civil lists an additional-defendant sheriff-service charge of $10.00, while the general service fee for civil papers handled through Sheriff Phil Sims's office is $25.00. The filing office should calculate the full amount because one case can require more than one service or party charge.

Marshall County Clerk Filing Channels

The official District Civil page links small-claims and Statement of Claim forms and gives instructions for evictions, service, and appeals. The Circuit Civil page publishes higher-level civil fees and service directions. An individual age 19 or older may file a small claim without a lawyer, while a corporation must be represented by an attorney. The plaintiff needs a correct defendant address or place of employment.

• Small Claims and Statement of Claim forms for district-level civil cases
• Unlawful-detainer guidance for possession and money claims
• Circuit Civil service instructions, including certified-mail preparation
• AlaFile electronic filing for attorneys

When certified mail is used for a post-office box or out-of-state address, the local civil pages direct the filer to prepare the envelope, green card, and certified-mail sticker with the Circuit Clerk's Guntersville address as the return address. Court staff can explain the process but cannot choose claims or draft pleadings.

Search Marshall County Clerk Records

Alacourt ACCESS provides paid, on-demand Alabama trial-court searches by name or case number. The county 58 docket page offers public setting-date links and an optional last-name filter, but warns that some cases may not appear electronically. The Guntersville public computer is the local fallback. Attorneys can use AlaFile for electronic filing. County traffic and criminal fine payments may use AlaPay and the Alabama Traffic Service Center. Call the Clerk to confirm a setting or identify a non-electronic file.

Municipal and federal clerks maintain separate records. The official Boaz Municipal Court page illustrates a city court that keeps its own traffic and misdemeanor schedule and court-clerk contact.

That separate city channel is important when a Boaz police citation does not appear in the county court route.

Bankruptcy is also outside the Marshall County Circuit Clerk's state-court file. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Alabama maintains federal bankruptcy records.

A bankruptcy search therefore goes through the federal court and PACER, not the county Circuit Clerk or Alacourt trial-court search.

Marshall County Clerk Service Limits

Court personnel may explain how court works, give general information about rules and procedures, provide schedules, and share information from an available case file. They cannot give legal advice, recommend wording, predict what a judge will do, contact a judge privately for a party, alter an order, or decide a deadline. A record request and a request for legal strategy are not the same service.

For parking, entry rules, or an accommodation, call before arriving. The official sources do not publish courthouse parking rates or a security-screening list. The District Civil page says reasonable accommodations will be made when a person is physically unable to complete necessary paperwork.

The Alabama court-record privacy rules also affect what staff may release. Sealed, confidential, restricted, and court-ordered private files are not available through an ordinary public request. Public copies should not disclose protected Social Security numbers, financial account numbers, minor information, or other confidential identifiers. Ask the Clerk about the authorized access process when a public copy is redacted or unavailable.

Note: Probate, municipal, and federal records each have their own clerk or office and are not complete substitutes for the Circuit Clerk file.