Access Boyle County Clerk Records

Boyle County Circuit Court Clerk

The State Court Structure Map identifies the primary clerk for Boyle County court records as the Circuit Court Clerk. The Kentucky Court of Justice county page lists Cortney Shewmaker as Circuit Court Clerk and places the office in the Boyle County Courthouse in Danville. This office serves the Kentucky Court of Justice side of local records, including Circuit Court, District Court, and Family Court case files. It is the office to contact for court case records, dockets, certified court copies, and questions about whether a public court file is online, clerk-only, restricted, or sealed.

The Boyle County Clerk is a different local official. County Clerk Casey McCoy handles marriage licenses, land records, recorded wills, liens, veteran discharge recording, motor vehicle work, elections, and open-records requests for that county office. The two offices share the courthouse, but they do not hold the same records. A divorce decree is a Circuit/Family Court record through the Circuit Court Clerk. A marriage license is a County Clerk record. A probate estate case is a District Court matter through the Circuit Court Clerk, while a recorded will fee appears on the County Clerk recording schedule.

Boyle County Clerk Duties

For court records, the Circuit Court Clerk receives and maintains filings in Boyle Circuit Court, Boyle District Court, and Family Court matters where the Kentucky Court of Justice assigns family jurisdiction. The office is the local point for felony, major civil, divorce, custody, traffic, misdemeanor, small claims, eviction, probate, guardianship, juvenile, and preliminary felony records. Online systems help with case and docket access, but the clerk remains the official contact for certified copies and file questions.

• Maintain Circuit Court case files for felony, major civil, family, divorce, and appeals from District Court.
• Maintain District Court case files for misdemeanor, traffic, small claims, eviction, juvenile, probate, guardianship, and preliminary felony matters.
• Confirm court dates, case numbers, and copy procedures when the public portals do not answer the question.
• Provide certified court copies when the requester qualifies and pays the required court fee.
• Apply Kentucky access limits for sealed, expunged, juvenile, adoption, mental-health, and protected-person records.

The Boyle County government County Clerk page supports the split-clerk distinction by identifying the separate county office. It is useful for land records and marriage licenses, but it is not the court clerk for Circuit or District case files.

The local government page helps users avoid sending court-record questions to the county recording office when the Circuit Court Clerk is the correct court contact.

Boyle County Certified Copies

A certified court copy is a clerk-issued copy that carries official certification for use in legal, licensing, school, employment, immigration, or agency settings. Public search results and docket entries are not the same thing. If the record must prove a divorce decree, judgment, criminal disposition, probate appointment, or other court action, the request should go to the Circuit Court Clerk, not to a third-party search provider.

1. Identify the court and case type first: Circuit, District, or Family Court, plus civil, criminal, traffic, probate, or divorce.
2. Gather the case number, party names, approximate filing date, and exact document needed.
3. Call 859-239-7442 for Circuit or Family matters, or 859-239-7362 for District matters, to confirm the copy process and fee.
4. Ask whether the file is public, sealed, expunged, archived, or subject to restricted access before sending payment.
5. Submit the request by the method the clerk confirms, then keep the receipt or pickup instructions with the certified copy.

For recorded County Clerk documents such as deeds, mortgages, or will recordings, use the County Clerk records process instead. That office lists eCCLIX access, open-records PDFs, and a records room phone number. The court clerk and county clerk may both be relevant to one family matter, but the certified copy source depends on the document.

Boyle Records Request Fields

The research located field details for Boyle County Clerk open-records request forms, and the same level of detail is useful when calling or writing the Circuit Court Clerk for court copies. Court requests should be specific enough for staff to identify the file without guessing. County Clerk open-records requests should identify the office record, recording data, or instrument details.

The County Clerk records page links an Open Records Policy, request-to-inspect PDF, and open-records public download. Court case records use the Kentucky Court of Justice and Circuit Court Clerk process rather than the County Clerk land-record system.

Boyle County Clerk Fees

The official research captured County Clerk recording fee highlights, not a full Circuit Court Clerk certified-copy schedule. For court copies, call the Circuit or District line before sending payment. For County Clerk recordings and related instruments, the published fee table includes the amounts below.

The Boyle County Clerk records page is also the source for eCCLIX public land-record access, DOC ALERT mortgage and deed notifications, e-recording vendor information, and County Clerk records-room contact details.

That records page is the correct Boyle County source for recorded instruments and open-records forms, while the Circuit Court Clerk remains the court file source.

Boyle County Clerk Forms

Boyle County court users should start with the Kentucky Court of Justice forms library for statewide court forms and the County Clerk records page for County Clerk open-records PDFs. The form source depends on whether the request involves a court case, a recorded instrument, or a county office record.

• Kentucky Court of Justice legal forms library - statewide forms for court processes.
• Boyle County Clerk open-records request forms - County Clerk inspection and copy requests.
• Kentucky expungement guidance - criminal-record sealing and expungement forms and certification steps.

Do not assume a County Clerk open-records form can obtain a Circuit Court case document. When the record is a court filing, docket entry, order, judgment, decree, sentence, or probate appointment, confirm the Circuit Court Clerk process first.

Boyle Clerk Mail and Online

Boyle County court case lookup is statewide rather than county-built. Use the Kentucky Court of Justice docket search for court dates and use KYeCourts / CourtNet guest access for available public case-search access. Expanded CourtNet access may require account status or paid Administrative Office of the Courts services, so public users should treat online access as a first step, not a guarantee of full document access.

County Clerk land-record access is separate. eCCLIX has a commercial user path for businesses and individuals who research documents as part of their work, and a private citizen path limited to Boyle County records, personal noncommercial use, and five searches per day at no charge. E-recording vendors listed by the County Clerk include Hopdox, CSC, Simplifile, and ePN.

The Kentucky Department of Corrections homepage is a reminder that court clerk records are only one part of the statewide records landscape.

For sentenced prisoners, parole, or probation records, the state corrections system is separate from Boyle County Circuit Court Clerk case files and should not be used as a substitute for a certified disposition.

Note: Absence from an online court or county portal does not prove that a file never existed, especially for sealed, expunged, archived, or restricted records.