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Magistrate Court

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. 

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Filing Fees

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Contact

Keisha Chambless
Chief Magistrate

Phone: (770) 781-2211

Location

Magistrate Court

1090 Tribble Gap Rd.
Cumming, GA 30040

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