General Information

• Custodian of court records for three courts: Chancery Court, Probate Court and Child Support Court
• Attending court sessions and keeping the Minutes of these courts
• Filing Lawsuits in several types of cases, including, but not limited to:
  • Divorces
  • Contract Debt
  • Land Disputes & Partition Suits
  • Conservatorships & Guardianships
  • Adoptions/Name Changes
  • Prisoner Writs of Certiorari
  • Child Support Cases
  • Paternity
• Collection of delinquent taxes for Johnson County and Mountain City, Tennessee
• Tax Sales & Auctioning of real and personal property, if necessary, when ordered by the Court
• Filing of Wills and Intestate Estates and Small Estates
• Investing Funds on behalf of minors or wards
• Collection of filing fees, state and county litigation taxes and costs & reporting collections and cases, and making distributions to the proper entities monthly
• Issuing summons and subpoenas for court, attachments for land and persons
• Maintaining the docket for the Chancellor and the attorneys, setting cases for trial for motions and hearings
• Working with the Chancellor and other Judges and the Child Support Referee, the attorneys, the bailiffs, the Sheriff’s department, the litigants, the public, the child support office and state agencies
•  Fingerprinting (Coming Soon) 

Our office strives to be courteous and helpful to those that we come in contact with, whether their matter is a Chancery matter, or if we need to refer them elsewhere.