Magistrate Court has jurisdiction over all civil claims of $15,000 or less; distress warrants and dispossessory writs; county ordinance violations; bad checks; preliminary hearings; summons, arrest warrants and search warrants and an expanded jurisdiction of certain misdemeanors. Magistrate may also grant bail in cases where the setting of bail is not exclusively reserved to a judge of another court.
Magistrate Court Has Moved:
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Online Filings/Questions and Answers
We now take online filings. There is also a question and answer section that should be helpful for filings in the Magistrate Court. File Anytime!
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Court Resources UNIFORM MAGISTRATE COURT RULES
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Filing Fees
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