Monroe County Clerk Profile
Monroe County's primary court-record clerk is the Clerk of Superior Court. The county Superior Court page identifies Lindsey Taylor as Clerk of Court, and the GSCCCA Monroe County clerk profile identifies Lindsey Taylor as Clerk of Superior Court, elected in 2021. GSCCCA lists the county code as 102 and the courts managed as Superior and Juvenile, while the State Court Structure Map notes that Probate and Magistrate have separate court clerks for their own matters.
The Clerk of Superior Court is central to Superior Court records in Monroe County. That includes civil pleadings, divorce records, felony criminal case documents, judgments, orders, and certified copies where access is permitted. The clerk profile also lists services that are not case searches, including appointment of notaries, passport applications, and recording discharges of soldiers. The legal organ listed in the research is the Monroe Reporter.
The GSCCCA clerk profile is the official state cooperative-authority source for Monroe County Clerk of Superior Court office details.
The profile is not a case-search form, but it confirms the clerk, address, courts managed, office contacts, services, and directions.
Monroe County Clerk of Superior Court
Clerk: Lindsey Taylor
1 Courthouse Square
P.O. Box 450
Forsyth, GA 31029
478-994-7022
Fax: 478-994-7053
lindsey.taylor@gsccca.org
Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Monroe County Clerk Duties
The Clerk of Superior Court handles the trial-court record side for Monroe County Superior Court. The county Superior Court page says civil cases and pleadings can be e-filed and copies of documents obtained through PeachCourt. It also links to e-filing for deeds, plats, UCCs, and tax liens through the GSCCCA system. The clerk's office is therefore both a court-record custodian and a gateway to statewide filing systems used in Georgia.
- Maintain Superior Court civil, criminal, divorce, and related court filings where public access is allowed.
- Provide copies and certifications for court documents that are held by the clerk.
- Coordinate e-filing and court-document access through PeachCourt for civil and criminal records.
- Connect real-estate filings, deeds, plats, UCCs, and tax liens to GSCCCA filing and search services.
- Manage listed clerk services such as notary appointments, passport applications, and soldier-discharge recording.
Probate Court keeps marriage, estate, guardianship, conservatorship, vital-record, traffic, and misdemeanor matters identified by the county. Magistrate Court keeps small claims, dispossessory, garnishment, deposit-account fraud, good-behavior warrant, and pre-warrant application materials. Asking the Clerk of Superior Court for those separate lower-court records may add delay because the custodian is different.
Monroe County Certified Copies
Certified copies are used when a plain printout is not enough. Divorce decrees, final judgments, orders, and other Superior Court documents may need a clerk certification for legal, title, benefits, or agency use. PeachCourt may help locate a case or obtain available documents, but the clerk should confirm whether the copy must be certified and how the fee must be paid.
- Identify the case type first. Superior Court divorce, felony, and civil case files route to the Clerk of Superior Court, while Probate and Magistrate records route to those courts.
- Gather the case number if known, party names, approximate filing or judgment date, and the exact document needed.
- Check PeachCourt for account-based case or document access if online access will help identify the filing.
- Contact the clerk by phone, email, mail, or in person to request the certified copy and confirm the current fee.
- Pay only after the office confirms the amount, delivery method, and whether the document is available for public release.
Monroe County Clerk Fields
The research did not locate a broad public Monroe Superior Court case-search form with open fields. It did identify PeachCourt account access, the GSCCCA clerk profile, and the official fee PDF. For a direct clerk request, include enough detail for staff to identify the file and the copy type without guessing.
| Portal or Request | Fields / Buttons / Access Notes | Use |
|---|---|---|
| PeachCourt access | Login/account access page, Register link, Forgot password link, and "Smarten Up" education link. | Georgia Courts says users must have an account to search provider court records. |
| GSCCCA clerk profile | Clerk name, title, year elected, party, office address, hours, phone, fax, county code, courts managed, legal organ, chief deputy, population, services, contacts, directions. | Office profile and clerk-service verification, not a case-search form. |
| Direct certified-copy request | Case number if known, party names, document type, number of copies, certification need, requester contact, delivery method. | Use for clerk counter, mail, phone, or email requests. |
| Superior Court fee PDF | Fee schedule document with transfer and law-library notes. | Confirm costs before filing or requesting mailed copies. |
Monroe County Clerk Fees
The Superior Court cost PDF is the controlling local fee document identified in the research, but extracted text did not provide a complete certified-copy table. The visible notes still matter. They show no fee for family violence, transfer-fee handling, a Probate Court transfer note, a Magistrate Court transfer note, and warnings about law-library, ADR, and POPIDF-B amounts in Magistrate transfers. A separate 2024 fee-change PDF says cases received on or after July 1, 2024 should include an additional $4.00 and explains a $3.00 Monroe County law-library fee increase on each civil proceeding in Magistrate, Probate, and Superior Courts.
| Item | Amount or Status | Official Note |
|---|---|---|
| Family violence filing | No fee | Visible Superior Court cost PDF note. |
| Probate Court transfer cost | $50 plus add JOF fee of $125 | Superior Court incoming-transfer note. |
| Magistrate Court transfer | $58 base fee, $5 sheriff's return, and $125 JOF | Superior Court transfer note. |
| Law-library fee increase | $3.00 increase on each civil proceeding; July 1, 2024 cases should include an additional $4.00 | 2024 Monroe fee-change PDF. |
| Plain or certified copy | Specific amount not located in extracted Monroe sources | Confirm with Clerk of Superior Court before mailing payment. |
Note: Fee totals can change, so mailed requests should not include payment until the clerk confirms the current amount.
Monroe County Clerk Access
Georgia Courts E-Access lists Monroe Superior with a provider route, and the research notes that users are redirected to the provider and must have an account. PeachCourt is the account access page identified for Monroe Superior case and document access. The page exposes registration and login functions, while full county case-search fields are behind account access.
GSCCCA serves a different role. The Monroe County clerk profile is public, and GSCCCA systems are linked from the county Superior Court page for deeds, plats, UCCs, and tax liens. That means a court case search and a real-estate filing search are not the same task. Court case documents use the court provider or clerk. Real-estate records and filing services use GSCCCA routes.
| System | Best Use | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| PeachCourt | Civil and criminal e-filing and court documents for provider counties. | Account access required; full search fields are not public before login. |
| GSCCCA clerk profile | Clerk identity, contact data, courts managed, services, directions, and office contacts. | Not a Superior Court case-search form. |
| GSCCCA filing systems | Deeds, plats, UCCs, tax liens, and related real-estate filings. | Separate from divorce or felony court case-file copies. |
Monroe County Clerk Channels
Monroe County Clerk of Superior Court records can be pursued through several channels. Online access uses PeachCourt where provider access is available. In-person requests use the courthouse office during posted hours. Mail requests may use P.O. Box 450, Forsyth, GA 31029, and phone or email can confirm the fee, copy type, and whether a record is held by the clerk before money is sent.
Use the fax number only when the office says fax is appropriate for the request. Certified copies usually require payment and office processing, and some records may be unavailable to the general public because of juvenile confidentiality, sealing, adoption restrictions, or redactions. Juvenile records are listed under the clerk's courts managed by GSCCCA, but Georgia juvenile records are not treated as ordinary public files. For marriage or estate records, use Monroe County Probate Court rather than the Superior Court clerk.