Searching Warrick County Civil Dockets
Begin at MyCase Indiana. A cause number gives the cleanest result. No number in hand? Use the Name tab, enter the required last name or business name, select Warrick County, and choose Civil, Family, or Probate. A first name, case status, or filing dates can narrow a broad set of results, though File Date is not a hearing-date field. Once a match appears, open the Case Summary and compare the court, case type, filed date, status, and style before relying on it.
- Choose Case for a known number or Name for a party or business.
- Select Warrick County in the court list.
- Check the proper Civil, Family, or Probate family.
- Open the result and read its CCS from the newest event backward.
- Contact the clerk for an order, certified copy, or document that is not linked.
MyCase shows public, nonconfidential civil information at no cost. It is still not the official Warrick County court record. If a docket search comes up empty, strip out the advanced fields and retry the exact cause number without punctuation, checking the spelling as you go. Confidential matters will never appear there. When the online docket fails, call the clerk at 812-897-6160 or email clerk@warrickcounty.gov; the counter works too once you confirm the office location, and mail or fax is an option after the office confirms its payment and delivery terms.
Warrick Civil Cause Numbers
Every Warrick County civil cause number opens with county and court codes. A number like 87C01-YYMM-CODE-###### belongs to Circuit Court. The 87D01 and 87D02 prefixes point to Superior Courts 1 and 2. A code sits in the middle to sort cases into families. You will see CV for civil and SC for small claims. Then come EV for eviction, DC or DR for domestic relations, ES for estate, GU for guardianship, PO for protective order, and MH for mental-health matters.
The code tells you which court and what type of case. It does not decide what you can see. Indiana rules may limit some family, protective-order, mental-health, adoption, juvenile, and guardianship information. Search by the exact cause number when you can. A broad name lookup can tangle together several case families, courts, and years in one list.
Inside a Warrick County Civil Docket
Think of the civil CCS as a dated register. It logs what the court received and what it did. A Warrick County docket entry may list parties by role, counsel, related cases, motions, notices, referrals, hearings, orders, disposition, links to public documents, and a financial block. When remote access is allowed, you can view a linked file right there. No link? The paper copy may still sit with the clerk.
| Header | Cause number, court, type, filed date, status, status date, and flags. |
|---|---|
| Parties | Role labels and public party details, subject to limits and redaction. |
| CCS event | Date, description, judicial officer, result, comment, and linked document. |
| Related case | A connected cause number or proceeding when the system supplies one. |
| Financials | Charge, credit, payment, transaction, and balance-as-of data when present. |
The filing date is not the next hearing date, so do not mix them up. Likewise, an open or closed label on the docket is not a full account of how the case ended. Read the later orders and the disposition entries instead. Need the exact legal result? Ask the clerk for the judgment or the order itself.
Warrick Eviction Filing Change
Evictions in Warrick County follow their own track, and the code changed. Any eviction started on or after January 1, 2021 carries the EV case type, not the old SC label. So when you pull up a cause number in a docket search, read EV for what it is. An SC tag on a new filing would be a red flag. It could mean the entry predates the switch or the docket line was miscoded.
Filing works differently here too. The county clerk requires eviction papers to be filed in person. That rule comes from Indiana Supreme Court Order 20S-MS-1. Indiana's general attorney e-filing system cannot start this kind of Warrick County civil case. Once the clerk enters the case, though, the public can still pull a nonconfidential indexed CCS. MyCase provides it for the Warrick County court docket.
Civil Case Types on the Docket
A Warrick County civil docket reaches well past contract disputes. Circuit Court holds civil and probate jurisdiction. The Superior Courts split the general civil work between them. They divide small claims as well. Every filing lands with the same office, since the clerk serves as the shared filing and record hub. So a docket search for any of these court records starts in one place. The main case families you will see include:
- Small claims, collections, evictions, foreclosures, and other civil disputes.
- Domestic relations, dissolution, custody, and related family matters where public.
- Estates, guardianships, trusts, adoptions, and other probate work.
- Protective orders and mental-health proceedings subject to access limits.
- Tort, plenary, name-change, and miscellaneous civil filings.
Match the prefix, the case-type code, and the filed date when you read an entry. A town name alone tells you nothing about which court is handling the matter. The state directory and the Odyssey list show no separate Boonville, Chandler, Newburgh, Lynnville, or Elberfeld court docket, so a Warrick County case lookup runs through the county's own courts rather than any town-level docket.
Warrick Civil Filing Volume
How busy are Warrick County civil dockets? Certified ICOR data counted 4,717 new civil filings across the county's courts in 2024. Small claims led the categories with 1,571. Collections followed close behind at 1,477. The same report logged 329 protective orders and 318 evictions. It also counted 145 domestic-relations cases without children, 109 with children, 119 mental-health matters, and 80 foreclosures. One caution: these are category filings. They are not unique people, and not the count of cases still pending.
Want the full set of aggregate court figures? The official 2024 Warrick ICOR data grid breaks the numbers down by case type.
Small claims and collections cases pile up fast, so tight filters matter when you search. Even so, ICOR cannot pull up a single civil CCS file.
Civil Docket Settings and Hearings
A Warrick County civil setting takes many forms. It might be a conference, a motion hearing, something tied to mediation, or the trial itself. The live Case Summary schema lists the details worth checking. You may see an event date, session text, judicial officer, comment, result, cancellation reason, and a second date label. Keep one caution in mind. A later reset or order can replace an older date. The newest court-issued entry is usually the better guide. When a setting stays unclear, the assigned court can confirm it.
Mediation practice in Warrick County varies by court. Superior Court 1 applies a broad mandatory-mediation rule across many civil, domestic, and estate cases. Circuit Court and Superior Court 2 instead require mediation before certain contested civil trials. That is why a docket search may surface referral, mediator report, failure to complete, later setting, and order entries. They appear ahead of trial. None of those mediation entries is the final judgment.
Warrick Municipal Violation Routes
Warrick County handles town ordinance cases even where no town court exists. Chandler spells this out plainly in its code. A contested violation gets filed with the appropriate Warrick County court. So does one that ends in default. Newburgh writes its own traffic and general-offense titles. Yet a public docket search through MyCase still points back to Warrick County rather than to any town forum. To pull the actual court docket, use the county's CCS case lookup. The Newburgh municipal code lays out how the town structures these ordinances.
The code tells you what local rules require, but the resulting case still lives in the county CCS. The official 2020 place rows list the incorporated communities of Warrick County.
Those communities are geographic context, not separate MyCase courts.
Civil Docket Access Rules
Indiana Access to Court Records Rule 4 sets the baseline. Most court records are open unless another rule says otherwise. Rule 5 then draws the protected lines. Sealed files, confidential cases, personal identifiers, and mental-health proceedings all sit outside ordinary public view. A category may look public. That does not mean every document inside it is. A redacted CCS docket can show less than the clerk's official file. Parties themselves may see more than the general public can. Access depends on who you are in the case.
Access distinction: Rule 4 states the general principle, while Rule 5 defines exclusions and redaction.
When a record is confidential, Rule 9 governs the request. You must file a verified written petition. It must meet the court's standards before any protected content is released. Asking under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act does not unlock it. The clerk cannot hand out sealed material just because someone cites that statute. The court-record rules control the case file.
Warrick Civil Fees and Copies
Fees in Warrick County are easy to state. A standard civil filing runs $157 with one defendant. Each added defendant costs $10 more. Small claims come in at $97, while an estate, guardianship, or trust filing runs $177. Want the sheriff to serve papers? That adds $28 per case. The clerk does not post a full local copy schedule. State materials put a legal or letter page at $1 and a certificate under seal at $1, pending the clerk's word on both.
Keep the charges straight. A filing fee opens or expands a case. A copy fee reproduces a record the clerk already holds. Certification adds the seal proving a copy came from the official file. A MyCase printout helps for reference, but it is no substitute for a certified judgment or order. When you request one, give the document's name and its CCS date.
One more trap to avoid: a payment portal is not a civil docket. The county's designated PayGov service handles traffic payments. It needs the case number plus the exact amount.
For any civil copy or filing charge in Warrick County, ask the clerk for the current total and the accepted way to pay. Find the record first with the Warrick County case lookup.