- 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.