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Fulton County Clerk Contact

Dawn Ziemek is the Fulton County Clerk of Courts. The official clerk page describes the clerk as an elected official, an officer of the court, the manager of court information, and the chief financial officer for revenue collected on behalf of the court. The same office also serves on the Fulton County Commission of Public Records. This is the central local office for Fulton Circuit and Superior Court record requests when MyCase does not provide the document or when a certified copy is needed.

Fulton County Clerk Duties

Fulton County is not a separate district-clerk and county-clerk jurisdiction. The research map identifies a unified Clerk of Courts tied to Indiana's Clerk of the Circuit Court structure. The clerk supports court information for Fulton Circuit Court and Fulton Superior Court, collects court revenues, receives certain probate filings, handles traffic payment administration after a local cause number exists, and supports marriage license functions under Indiana's statewide marriage-license process.

• Maintains and manages court information for the county trial courts.
• Receives requests for official copies when MyCase does not provide a document.
• Processes traffic payments that use a Fulton County cause number beginning 25D01.
• Receives estate claims addressed to Fulton County Clerk, ATTN: Probate.
• Deposits wills under the Fulton sealed-envelope procedure.
• Supports marriage license issuance for eligible Fulton County applicants.

The Fulton County legal resources page links public court records and MyCase access.

The legal resources page is useful because it points record seekers to public court records while the clerk remains the official copy source.

Fulton County Clerk Request Channels

Records access should start with MyCase for public, non-confidential Odyssey case information. If a document is not available online, Indiana Judicial Branch guidance says to contact the clerk in the county where the case is heard. For Fulton County, that means the Clerk of Courts at the courthouse. The county footer links NextRequest, but the research found that Fulton's NextRequest page reports no public portal access while in testing mode, so the direct clerk channels are more reliable for court records.

Request Certified Fulton County Copies

A certified copy is a clerk-issued copy that can be used when a court, agency, employer, benefit office, or other formal recipient requires proof from the official record. MyCase can help identify the case, but MyCase also warns that online information is not the official court record. For a certified judgment, final order, divorce decree, probate document, or criminal disposition, use the local clerk's copy process.

1. Search MyCase first to identify the case number, party names, court, and document title.
2. Write down whether the case is in Fulton Circuit Court or Fulton Superior Court.
3. Call the Clerk of Courts at 574-223-2911 to confirm the document is public and available.
4. Ask for the current copy fee, certification fee, payment method, and mailing requirements.
5. Submit the request in person, by mail, or by other clerk-approved channel.
6. Verify whether pickup, return mail, or additional processing time applies.

Note: The research did not locate Fulton County plain-copy or certified-copy fee amounts, so those amounts should not be guessed.

Fulton County Clerk Request Fields

No general Fulton County clerk public-record request form was located in the inspected pages. A clear request should still include enough information for staff to find the correct case and document. Probate estate claims have a specific field set, while ordinary court copy requests depend on the case number, party names, document type, and requested certification.

Fulton County Clerk Fees

The located fee table is mixed. Some fees and payment rules were found in official Fulton County or Indiana sources. Other common clerk fees were not located in the inspected sources and should be treated as unknown until the clerk confirms them. This protects readers from using a stale or invented amount.

Clerk Probate and Traffic Records

Two Fulton County record paths have unusually specific local rules. Estate claims must be filed in triplicate, must include the decedent name and court case number, and must include a written notarized claim statement, billing statement, and stamped claimant envelope. Deposited wills are sealed, indexed by testator, and not public records during the testator's life.

Traffic payments also depend on the clerk. The official traffic page says a person must use the Fulton County cause number, not the OTT number printed on the officer's ticket. If the cause number is missing, the payment may be rejected. The traffic clerk phone number listed in the research is 574-223-7711.

The manifest assigns a federal PACER image to this clerk page. The PACER lookup for the Indiana Northern Bankruptcy Court is a useful contrast because federal bankruptcy copies do not come from the Fulton County Clerk.

County trial-court records route to the Fulton clerk, while federal bankruptcy records route to federal CM/ECF and PACER.

Fulton Clerk Record Limits

The Fulton County Clerk of Courts is the local source for official county trial-court copies, but not every record tied to a Fulton County resident is a county clerk record. Jail records route to the sheriff or jail. State prison records route to IDOC. Federal civil, criminal, and bankruptcy records route to the Northern District systems. The Fulton County jail staff page is one example of sheriff-side information outside the clerk's court file.

Use the clerk for court records and certified court copies, but use the sheriff or jail for custody records that are not part of the court file.