Access Adair County Clerk Records

Adair County Circuit Court Clerk

The local trial-court clerk for Adair County is Dennis Loy, Circuit Court Clerk. The office is at the Adair County Judicial Center and is the first local stop for Circuit Court, District Court, Family Court division, traffic, criminal, civil, divorce, probate case, and docket record questions. Kentucky Court of Justice guidance says requests for copies of case court records begin with the clerk of the court that heard the case, so the county Circuit Court Clerk is the proper contact for most Adair court case files.

The Adair County Circuit Court Clerk should not be confused with the Adair County Clerk. Lisa Greer's County Clerk office handles marriage-license issuance, land records, recorded wills after probate, county clerk open-record requests, vehicle records, and local recording fees. The split matters because a divorce decree, felony case, traffic citation, or probate case file routes through the court clerk, while a marriage license, deed, mortgage, lien, or recorded will copy routes through the county clerk.

Adair County Clerk Record Duties

The Circuit Court Clerk maintains the local court record path for both Circuit Court and District Court matters. Circuit Court covers felonies, civil cases over the District Court limit, divorce, adoption, contested probate, injunctions, writs, real-property title disputes, and appeals from District Court or administrative agencies. District Court covers misdemeanors, traffic, violations, city and county ordinances, small claims, civil cases of $5,000 or less, probate of wills, juvenile matters, arraignments, and felony probable-cause hearings.

• Accept and maintain case filings for Adair Circuit Court and District Court matters.
• Provide case-record review and copy access when records are public and available.
• Route older files through State Records Center or KDLA procedures when needed.
• Support court payments, including eligible ePay matters and local cash, check, or money-order options.
• Answer court-date, bond, jury service, docket, and case-status questions within the limits of the office role.

The County Clerk performs different record duties. That office publishes a local open-record request process, a contact form, and a fee schedule for recordings such as deeds, mortgages, liens, powers of attorney, wills, and affidavits of descent. If a request involves a clerk-held county record instead of a court case file, the County Clerk's open-record request page provides the route.

Request Adair County Certified Copies

A certified court copy is used when a plain screen print or portal result is not enough. Divorce decrees, dispositions, judgments, orders, and probate case filings often require certification for use with agencies, another court, schools, employers, or out-of-state offices. Kentucky Court of Justice records guidance says the request starts with the clerk of the court that heard the case. For Adair County Circuit, District, and Family Court records, that means the Office of Circuit Court Clerk.

1. Identify the case number, party names, court level, and document type before contacting the clerk.
2. Search KYeCourts or CourtNet first if the goal is basic public case information rather than a sealed official copy.
3. Contact the Adair Circuit Court Clerk at 270-384-2626 if the record is unavailable online, older, disposed, restricted, or needed as a certified copy.
4. Ask whether the file is held locally, stored at a records facility, or subject to KDLA archived-record procedures.
5. Pay the current copy and certification fees required by the clerk before pickup, mailing, or other release.

Older records need extra care. KCOJ says some older files may remain with the clerk, may have moved to a record facility, or may have been destroyed under retention schedules. State Records Center requests require case or file locator numbers, and those records cannot be searched by name or Social Security number alone.

Adair County Request Fields

The Adair County Clerk's open-record page is the clearest local written-request model for non-court county records. It says a person who cannot print the form may make a written request that includes identity and contact details, a precise list of documents, residency, and helpful facts. Court case requests should still start with the Circuit Court Clerk, but the same practical rule applies: exact case and document details reduce delays.

Adair County Clerk Fees

Kentucky court fees changed under Supreme Court Administrative Order 2026-15 effective July 1, 2026. The order lists copy of document at $0.25 per page, certification at $5, digital or video copy at $25 per media, audio recording at $15 per media, Circuit civil filing at $188, District civil filing at $94, small claims at $38, and probate of estate at $50. Confirm the current amount with the Adair Circuit Court Clerk before paying because local case type and timing can change what applies.

The County Clerk fee schedule applies to county recordings, not ordinary court case files. Local examples include deed recording at $50, mortgage at $80, power of attorney at $50, judgment lien at $46, will at $47, and affidavit of descent at $50, with added page fees in some filings. The County Clerk page also says open-record copy fees must be paid in advance before copies can be obtained.

Adair County Clerk Forms

The Adair County Clerk site provides a contact form and an open-record request route for clerk-held county records. For court filings, Kentucky Court of Justice legal forms cover many statewide case types, including probate, divorce, fee waiver, specialty-court referrals, and other court forms. Use the correct office based on the record type before sending private information or payment.

• Adair County Clerk contact form - required first name, last name, email, subject, message, and reCAPTCHA.
• Adair County Clerk open records request - clerk-record request instructions and submission channels.
• Kentucky Court of Justice legal forms - statewide court forms for case filing and related requests.

The County Clerk open-record page says requests can be hand delivered to 424 Public Square, Suite 3, emailed to Lisa Greer, mailed to the same Public Square address, or faxed to 270-384-4805. The office states that it responds within five business days of receipt.

The Adair County Clerk contact form is part of the county-record request path for clerk-held records and general clerk messages.

The form supports county clerk contact, while court case copies still route through the Office of Circuit Court Clerk.

The Adair County Clerk open-record request page is the local source for written clerk-record request elements and submission channels.

That open-record page is useful when the request is for County Clerk records rather than a Circuit or District Court case file.

Mail and Online Court Access

Online court access in Adair County is statewide rather than county-only. KYeCourts guest access and CourtNet search provide public case information where available, while the Kentucky docket portal handles court-date searches by county, division, date, courtroom, and subdivision. Payment options listed for the local court include cash, check, money order, and ePay. If a record is too old or not available to guest users, the clerk can explain whether the next step is a local copy request, a State Records Center request, or KDLA archive research.

KYeCourts guest access is the basic public case-information route. Kentucky Court of Justice court-record request guidance explains the clerk-first approach for copies and older files. For county clerk records, the local Adair County Clerk open-record process remains separate from the Circuit Court Clerk's court case records.

The Kentucky Specialty Courts landing page is included because specialty-court records and referrals still connect back to ordinary case files handled by court clerks.

Specialty Court participation does not create a separate Adair courthouse record counter; the underlying case remains tied to the court file.

The Kentucky Drug Court page documents statewide coverage, including all Kentucky counties.

Drug Court eligibility or referral questions should be checked through the case court, attorney, or statewide program source.