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Hancock County Circuit Court Clerk

Michael T. Boling, also listed locally as Mike Boling, is the Hancock County Circuit Court Clerk. The office is at the Hancock County Judicial Center, 310 Hawesville School Drive, P.O. Box 250, Hawesville, Kentucky 42348-0250. The main phone numbers are 270-927-8144 and 270-927-8145, the fax number is 270-927-8629, and the county government page lists MichaelBoling@kycourts.net as the local email contact. KCOJ lists court office hours as Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Circuit Court Clerk is not the same office as County Clerk Trina Ogle. Michael T. Boling's office handles case records for Circuit Court, Family Court, and District Court. Trina Ogle's County Clerk office handles land records, marriage licenses, elections, motor vehicles, county orders, notary bonds, liens, plats, and related county-clerk records at the Hancock County Administration Building on Main Cross Street.

The local county page for the Circuit Court Clerk confirms the Hawesville judicial center contact point.

This is the office to contact when the record sought is a case file, docket, certified court copy, traffic disposition, divorce decree, or probate filing.

Hancock County Clerk Court Duties

The Circuit Court Clerk keeps court records for the county's state trial courts. Hancock County is in the 38th Judicial Circuit and 38th Judicial District. Circuit Court handles felonies, civil matters over $5,000, divorces, adoptions, termination of parental rights, real-property title disputes, contested probate, injunctions, writs, and appeals. Family Court is a Circuit Court division for domestic relations and confidential family matters. District Court handles misdemeanors, violations, traffic, probate of wills, small claims, civil cases up to $5,000, juvenile matters, and preliminary felony hearings.

• Maintain Circuit Court, Family Court, and District Court case files.
• Provide official court copies and certified records when available and public.
• Support local court dockets, schedules, payments, bonds, and jury-related court services.
• Handle traffic, probate, misdemeanor, felony, divorce, civil, family, and small-claims record questions.
• Direct restricted, sealed, archived, or storage records through the proper court process.

Request Hancock County Certified Copies

Certified copies are official clerk-issued copies used when a court record must prove a case event, disposition, decree, judgment, or filing. Public case information in KYeCourts can help identify a case, but the portal does not replace a certified file copy from the Hancock County Circuit Court Clerk. Older records may require clerk staff to check storage or direct the requester to Hancock County Archives.

1. Identify whether the record is a court case record or a County Clerk record.
2. Gather the case number, party names, court division, approximate filing year, document type, and whether certification is needed.
3. Search KYeCourts guest access for public case information if the case is indexed.
4. Call or visit the Circuit Court Clerk at the Hancock County Judicial Center to confirm availability, fee, and delivery options.
5. Pay the current copy and certification cost using the payment method the clerk accepts for that request.

Note: KCOJ says AOC does not maintain court case records, so case-file requests start with the county clerk of the court where the case was heard.

Hancock County Records Request Fields

There is no separate Hancock Circuit Court Clerk form inventory in the research file, but KCOJ and the local court-record workflow show the details needed for a successful court copy request. The same fields also help when staff must distinguish similar names or locate an older file.

Hancock County Clerk Court Fees

The reviewed research did not include a Hancock-specific court copy fee schedule for the Circuit Court Clerk. KCOJ does list local court payment methods for Hancock County obligations: cash, money order, certified check, personal check from a local bank, and online ePay where eligible. Court filing and copy fees can change under Kentucky Supreme Court orders, so the clerk should confirm current copy, certification, filing, and payment-plan charges.

Hancock County Clerk Online Access

Online court access is statewide rather than a Hancock-only database. KYeCourts guest access provides public case information and ePay links. The KCOJ docket portal provides hearing docket searches. KCOJ request guidance says official court case records come from the Office of Circuit Court Clerk in the county where the case was heard. For Hancock County, that means Michael T. Boling's office in Hawesville.

Hancock County Clerk Office Split

The split clerk structure is the most important local routing rule. Court records go to Michael T. Boling at the Judicial Center. Marriage licenses, land records, vehicle licensing, voter registration, elections, notary bonds, delinquent real-estate taxes, county orders, records, and plats go to County Clerk Trina Ogle at the Hancock County Administration Building, 225 Main Cross Street, P.O. Box 146, Hawesville, Kentucky 42348.

Use the Hancock County County Clerk page when the record is a deed, mortgage, marriage license, tax lien, plat, recorded will, or county open-records request. Use the Circuit Court Clerk when the record is a case file, court docket, divorce decree, traffic citation, probate file, criminal case, or court judgment.