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Franklin County Clerk Office

Franklin County uses a unified Clerk of the Circuit Court model. The research dated July 3, 2026 uses Ruth Rowlett as the working current clerk. Some county PDF material still lists Neysa R. Raible with a term ending December 31, 2026, but local reporting says Raible resigned effective June 1, 2026 and Ruth Rowlett was sworn in after a caucus. The county clerk department page displays Ruth R. Rowlett, while public naming also appears as Ruth A. Rowlett. The practical instruction is to use Ruth Rowlett and recognize that some county PDF material may be stale.

The clerk's office is on the first floor of the courthouse. Room 104 is the clerk area for probation fees, payment of fines, traffic tickets, probate, small claims, protection orders, child support, and marriage licenses. Room 103 is listed for election information. The office does not provide passport service and directs users to passport locations elsewhere.

For court-record users, the clerk is the practical fallback whenever a Franklin County case appears in MyCase but the document itself is not linked. The same office also handles certified marriage copies and divorce decrees, which Indiana courts state are not available as certified documents online. Calling before visiting is useful because the office closes for lunch and marriage-license issuance ends before the general closing time.

The Franklin County Clerk's Department page is the local source for clerk hours, payment methods, case-search links, traffic payment links, and marriage-license instructions.

That county page is the best local starting point when MyCase does not provide the document needed.

Franklin County Clerk Duties

The Clerk of the Circuit Court is the central counter for many court-facing tasks in Franklin County. MyCase gives free public access to many non-confidential Indiana court case entries, but the clerk remains the source for certified documents and for public records that are not linked online. Indiana courts state that if a public document is not available online, users should contact the county clerk where the case is heard.

The clerk's role is not the same as the judge's role, the prosecutor's role, or the sheriff's role. The judge hears and decides cases. The prosecutor files criminal charges for the State of Indiana. The sheriff handles jail, custody, bonds, and law-enforcement records. The clerk maintains the court file, takes clerk-routed payments, and issues copies when a public document can be released.

• Maintains court filings and copy access for Franklin County Circuit Court cases.
• Handles payments for fines, traffic tickets, probation fees, and other clerk-routed court costs.
• Issues marriage licenses after applicants begin through the state marriage portal.
• Receives probate, small-claims, protection-order, and child-support related clerk business.
• Provides certified copies for eligible marriage, divorce, probate, and court documents when available.
• Directs users to Indiana MyCase for public non-confidential case search and to ePay for eligible online payments.

Request Franklin County Certified Copies

Certified copies are different from online case printouts. A certified copy has the official seal or certification needed for legal use. Franklin County users may need certified marriage copies, divorce decrees, estate or will documents, final judgments, orders, or other court documents. MyCase can help identify the case number, court, filing date, and document event, but it does not replace clerk certification.

Do not send money for a copy until the clerk confirms the fee and request path. The research did not locate a Franklin County online copy-order form or complete local copy schedule. A good phone call gives the clerk the case number, document name, party names, and whether certification is needed, then asks which payment method and mailing instructions apply.

1. Search Indiana MyCase first if the case number or filing details are not known.
2. Write down the case number, party names, case type, document title, and filing or order date.
3. Call the Franklin County Clerk at 765-647-5111 to confirm copy availability, certification rules, and the exact fee.
4. Choose the request channel the clerk approves: in person, mail, phone guidance, or email for questions.
5. Pay using an accepted method: cash, money order, cashier check, or credit card with the local card fee.
6. Pick up the document or follow the clerk's mailing instructions after the copy is prepared.

Note: The research did not locate a Franklin County court-record copy request PDF, so direct clerk contact is the reliable request path.

Franklin County Request Fields

No official Franklin County clerk court-record request form with field-level instructions was located in the reviewed sources. A complete request should still give the clerk enough detail to find the file and quote the correct copy or certification fee. Treat MyCase as the index when possible, then give the clerk the exact case and document information.

Franklin County Clerk Fees

The official sources reviewed give several local payment rules and statewide fees that commonly involve the clerk. They do not give every Franklin County civil, probate, plain-copy, certified-copy, or search fee. Where a specific fee was not located in an official source, the accurate instruction is to ask the clerk before paying or mailing funds.

Franklin County Clerk Forms

The clerk page references forms available through the office, but the specific live form-field inventory was not captured in the reviewed official sources. For court records, the usable process is direct clerk contact. For marriage licenses, the active form path is the Indiana marriage-license pre-application portal, followed by an in-person visit to the Franklin County Clerk.

Traffic tickets and eligible fines can be paid through the statewide Indiana courts ePay Public Access portal. Public case searching uses MyCase. Public documents not online, certified copies, wills, divorce decrees, and older files route back to the Franklin County Clerk. Email is useful for clerk-office questions, but it should not be treated as a signed filing or a payment channel unless the clerk confirms the procedure.

Marriage-license work has its own timing. Indiana's statewide marriage application starts online, but applicants must still appear at the Franklin County Clerk's Office to complete issuance. Franklin County marriage licenses are issued from 8:30 a.m. to noon and from 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The clerk accepts cash, money order, cashier check, or credit card, with the published card fee applied to credit-card payments.

The Franklin County phone directory lists local numbers for the clerk, judge, prosecutor, probation, sheriff, and other court-adjacent offices.

That directory helps separate clerk copy questions from judge, prosecutor, probation, sheriff, or transportation questions.

Franklin County Clerk Access Channels

Franklin County clerk access is a chain. Start online with MyCase for public non-confidential case information. Use ePay only for eligible traffic tickets, fines, and costs. Visit or call the first-floor clerk counter for certified copies, documents not linked online, probate copies, divorce decrees, marriage copies, and older record questions. If mailing a request, call first because no Franklin-specific mailed-copy form or fee schedule was located.

The county's elected-official materials are still useful for addresses and court structure, but the clerk-name conflict needs care. The Franklin County elected officials page and linked PDF may lag behind the clerk change noted in the research. For current clerk naming in this build, Ruth Rowlett is used.

The elected-official page is still part of the local source set, but clerk contact should be checked against the live Clerk's Department page.