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Ripley County Clerk Contact

The Ripley County Clerk is the filing and records office for the Circuit and Superior Courts. The official clerk page lists Liz Baumgartner as clerk, office address 115 N. Main Street, Versailles, Indiana 47042, mailing address P.O. Box 177, Versailles, IN 47042, phone 812-689-6115, fax 812-689-6000, and public hours Monday-Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The page links court filing fees, marriage licenses, child support, MyCase, local rules, and election information.

Because MyCase is a public search tool rather than the official record source, the clerk is the fallback for certified copies, unlinked public documents, older files, exact court balances, and local copy logistics. The clerk also handles marriage-license issuance and certified marriage copies. Divorce decrees are court records, so the clerk is the local copy source after the case is identified.

Ripley County Clerk Duties

The Clerk of the Circuit and Superior Courts supports the local trial-court system. The office accepts filings, maintains case records, collects court-related fees, issues certified copies, supports marriage-license work, and provides a local contact point when statewide online records do not answer a records question. The clerk page also links Ripley County current local rules, which matter for filing and court procedure.

• Maintains trial-court filings and case records for public and official copy access.
• Issues marriage licenses and certified copies of marriage licenses.
• Provides divorce-decree copy access through the court file when the decree is public.
• Processes court fees, child-support fee information, and other clerk office payments.
• Routes users to MyCase for online public case search before a local copy request.

Child-support questions have a local timing detail. The clerk child-support page says inquiries about support payments should be made after 2:00 p.m. because of mail processing, and it lists a $55 annual support and maintenance docket fee due by January 31.

Request Ripley County Certified Copies

A certified copy is a clerk-issued copy used when a record must be proved outside ordinary online lookup. Examples include divorce decrees, final orders, judgments, and marriage records. MyCase may show that a case or order exists, but a certified copy comes from the court or clerk maintaining the record. Older files and public documents not linked in MyCase should also be handled through the clerk.

1. Search MyCase first to find the case number, party names, court, filing date, and document name.
2. Call the clerk at 812-689-6115 to confirm the record is held locally and ask for the current copy fee.
3. Give the case number, party names, document type, and whether a certified copy is needed.
4. Submit the request in person or by mail to P.O. Box 177 after confirming payment and return-mail details.
5. Review the copy for the clerk certification before using it for a legal or administrative purpose.

Note: Do not rely on an online document image when a court, agency, school, or employer has asked for a certified copy.

Ripley County Request Details

The research did not locate a dedicated clerk web request form for court copies. A strong mail, phone, or counter request should still give the clerk enough detail to identify the case and document. Sheriff recordings use a separate sheriff public-records form, so court copy requests and law-enforcement recording requests should not be mixed.

Ripley County Clerk Fees

The county maintains a court filing fees page, and the research notes that the page states fees as of October 3, 2023. Static extraction did not reliably capture every copy and filing amount, so copy should not invent a plain-copy fee, certification fee, or probate filing fee. Confirm current amounts with the clerk before mailing payment or arriving at the courthouse.

Online and Federal Records

Ripley County trial-court records use Indiana MyCase and the local clerk, while federal records use a different system. Ripley County is in the federal jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, and bankruptcy matters use the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Federal docket searches use PACER or the PACER Case Locator, not the county clerk.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana is included in the clerk page image set because it marks the federal trial-court path for records outside Ripley County's state courts.

County court users should not expect federal cases to appear in MyCase or local clerk files.

The PACER federal court records portal is also assigned to this page.

PACER can be relevant for federal civil, criminal, bankruptcy, and appellate records, but it is separate from Ripley County Clerk copy service.

Older Ripley County Records

Older court, marriage, and genealogy records need extra care because they may not appear in MyCase and may not be stored in the same way as current Odyssey case records. The county fee page note says information dated before 1965 is located in the Ripley County Historical Society. That does not replace the clerk for current court records, but it gives searchers a local path when a pre-1965 marriage, court, or family-history record is not found through modern court channels.

For older record requests, gather names, approximate dates, record type, and any known case or book reference before calling the clerk. If the clerk determines the item is historical rather than an active clerk-held file, ask whether the Historical Society or another county office is the better next contact. Avoid mailing payment until the office confirms the record location and current fee.