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Marion County Clerk's Office

The Marion County Clerk's Office is a unified Clerk of the Circuit Court for Marion County, Indiana. The official duties page states that the office is established by the Indiana Constitution to serve as record keeper for the constitutionally created Circuit Court. The Clerk is elected by Marion County residents and is limited to two consecutive terms.

Indy.gov identifies Myla Eldridge as Clerk. The office is also a financial office for the courts: it collects, disburses, and reconciles court-case money. That includes filing fees, court costs, judgment money in civil cases, fines, deferral and pretrial diversion fees, bail bond money, restitution, and probation-related fees in criminal and infraction cases.

The official agency page is a useful starting point for the Marion County Clerk's Office and its public service links.

That page confirms the local office identity and keeps the request path tied to the city-county government site.

Marion County Clerk Duties

The Clerk's Office is not only a copy counter. It is the keeper of trial court records, a court money office, and a set of specialized divisions. The Clerk also serves as Secretary to the County Election Board and trustee of child support collections ordered through the office. For court record users, the key distinction is that case status may be searched online, while official copies and certifications come through Clerk channels.

• Court Filing at the Community Justice Campus handles filing channels and links to the online court record request portal.
• The Criminal Division at the Community Justice Campus uses criminalrecords@indy.gov and supports criminal case record functions.
• The Records Department and Microfilm Library use the public records phone line and online record request path.
• The Marriage License Division operates from the City-County Building and uses marriage@indy.gov.
• The Probate Department is tied to the Community Justice Campus and the civil/probate filing structure.
• The Clerk keeps basic Indiana Department of Revenue tax warrant details, but IDOR maintains detailed tax warrant files.

The Clerk duties page has the most useful division list for Marion County court record users.

The division layout matters because marriage, criminal, probate, and public terminal questions do not all start at the same counter.

Request Marion County Clerk Records

Marion County Clerk records can be requested online, in person, by mail, at public terminals, or through a government-entity path. The ordinary public web portal is for court or marriage records, divorce decrees, civil case files, criminal case files, judgments, orders, and other official court documents. If the requester is a government entity, the research identifies a separate official request workflow.

The government-entity request path is documented separately from the public Clerk record request form.

That distinction helps public users avoid the wrong form when a request is not being made by a government office.

Certified Marion County Clerk Copies

A certified copy is a Clerk-issued copy with an official certification, often needed for legal, title, banking, benefits, immigration, or institutional use. A plain online document may help with research, but it is not always enough when a third party asks for a certified court record. The Clerk's copy page supplies the fee rules and payment limits.

1. Find the case number or record details in MyCase, the marriage lookup, a prior document, or the parties' records.
2. Choose the correct channel: online portal, in-person counter, mail form, or public terminals if more search work is needed.
3. State the document name and request certification if an official certificate is required.
4. Provide enough identifiers, such as names, case number, record type, and date range, so staff can locate the file.
5. Pay the Clerk's copy and certification charges by an accepted payment method when the request is processed.

Note: The Clerk can provide official financial balances when online MyCase amounts may not reflect recent charges, payments, or interest.

Marion County Request Fields

The static source did not expose every runtime label inside the online record request portal. The research does identify the request categories and the information a complete Marion County Clerk request should include. A strong request gives staff the record type, enough identifiers, and the copy format needed.

Marion County Clerk Fees

The official record-copy page gives copy, certification, and payment rules for Marion County Clerk records. It also states that personal checks are not accepted. Certified marriage copies by mail have a separate money-order rule from the marriage record process, while most court-copy requests use the general copy and certification schedule.

Marriage Probate Tax Warrants

The Clerk's Office handles several record areas that do not fit neatly into a simple court-copy request. Marriage licenses are issued by the Clerk after an online application and in-person review, then the officiant returns the signed license for recording. Divorce decrees are court records requested through the Clerk online tool or printable divorce decree form, and divorce case status may be searched in MyCase under civil and family records.

Probate matters are handled through Marion Superior Court's civil/probate structure and the Clerk's Probate Department. A person may deposit a will with the Clerk before death at the City-County Building or the Community Justice Campus. Tax warrants are narrower: the Clerk keeps basic IDOR tax warrant information such as warrant number, name and address, amount due, and open or satisfied status, but IDOR maintains detailed tax warrant files and confirms partial payments.

For estate and will issues, the county probate record path is separate from Marion County probate records details.

Restricted Marion County Clerk Records

Indiana law and court rules restrict some Clerk records. Juvenile case files require party-of-record status and valid identification. The Clerk also states that no information about pending actions, motions filed, payments received, fees owed, or restitution due or paid will be released by phone, mail, or email for juvenile court records.

Confidential, sealed, and expunged records are not available through ordinary public search. Protection order cases are not found in MyCase because protected-person names and certain identifying information are excluded online. For small claims, the Clerk's record-copy page says the Marion County Clerk's Office does not maintain Small Claims Court records, so requesters must contact the specific small claims court directly.