Access Union County Clerk Records

Union County Clerk Office

The Union County Clerk of Superior Court is Judy Odom. The county clerk page and the GSCCCA clerk directory both identify the office as the record keeper for Superior Court civil and criminal affairs and filings made in Union County. GSCCCA also lists the office as managing Superior and Juvenile courts. That matters for record searches because a felony case, a divorce decree, a civil lawsuit, a judgment, or a Juvenile Court access question does not route through the same office as a Probate Court estate or sheriff incident report.

The Clerk of Superior Court is also the county's real-estate recorder. Deeds, plats, covenants, restrictions, and other recorded instruments are maintained through this office, with statewide indexing and related search tools available through GSCCCA. The clerk's page states that deeds need a witness and notarization before recording. Plats need a survey with the signature, in black ink, of a certified engineer on the seal, and subdivision plats need County Engineer approval before they are recorded.

The local clerk page is the best starting point for office duties, links, jury forms, real-estate recording notes, and court filing resources. The official Union County page for the Clerk of Superior Court shows the same office role that appears in the research record.

The county page connects the Clerk of Superior Court to court filings, jury service, real-estate recording, and public access points that a requester can use before calling the office.

Union County Clerk Duties

Union County's court structure map names the Clerk of Superior Court as the unified primary clerk. There is no separate secondary clerk page for this project. The office keeps Superior Court civil records, criminal records, domestic-relations filings, and divorce decrees. It also serves as recorder for deeds, plats, covenants, and restrictions. Jury administration is part of the office's work too, including the Grand Jury pool and jurors for civil and criminal trials.

Many requests begin with a simple question: which office has the record? Union County's Open Records Request routing page sends court records, property deeds, divorce decrees, plats, covenants, and restrictions to the Clerk of Superior Court by phone. Sheriff citations, arrests, incidents, and investigations go to the sheriff instead. Probate records, marriage licenses, wills, and guardianship matters route through Probate Court.

• Superior Court civil filings, orders, judgments, and related case papers.
• Superior Court criminal filings, including felony case records after filing.
• Divorce decrees and domestic-relations records filed in Superior Court.
• Real-estate deeds, plats, covenants, restrictions, and recording indexes.
• Grand Jury and trial jury administration, including juror forms.
• Trade name information, affidavits, and DD-214 release information.

Note: Juvenile records may be managed by the clerk but are not searched like ordinary public civil or criminal files.

Request Union Certified Copies

Certified copies are used when a court, agency, title company, school, or other receiving party needs proof that the copy came from the official record. A plain photocopy may be enough for review, but a certified copy carries the clerk's certification. The research did not locate a Union County fee table for Clerk court-record copies, so requesters should confirm the current copy and certification cost before ordering.

1. Identify the record type. Say whether the request is for a Superior Court civil file, criminal file, divorce decree, deed, plat, covenant, restriction, or another clerk record.
2. Gather search facts. Use party names, case number, book and page, document type, filing date, or recording date when known.
3. Contact the Clerk of Superior Court at 706-439-6022 or visit the courthouse counter during posted business hours.
4. Ask whether the record can be issued as a plain copy, certified paper copy, or secured electronic certified copy through the statewide eCert route.
5. Confirm the fee, turnaround time, pickup method, mailing option, or electronic delivery path before paying.

The GSCCCA eCertification portal supports electronically certified court records and real-estate recordings as secured PDFs after the clerk processes the request. It is useful when a digital certified record will meet the receiving party's rules.

Electronic certification can reduce the need for a courthouse visit, but it still depends on clerk processing and on whether the requested document is eligible for that channel.

Union Clerk Request Details

The research did not locate a dedicated online Union County court-record request form for Clerk records. The practical request inventory is still clear from the county routing page and clerk duties. A complete request should identify the record, give enough names and dates to locate it, state whether certification is needed, and include contact information so staff can answer fee or availability questions.

Union County Clerk Fees

The available research did not identify an official Union County Clerk copy-fee schedule for Superior Court records, certified court copies, or real-estate recording charges. That absence should be handled as a fee-check step, not as a reason to guess. Some other Union County fees are published in the research, but those belong to the sheriff or Probate Court and should not be treated as Clerk of Superior Court charges.

Common Union Clerk Forms

The clerk page links several form groups. Jury forms include the Blank Juror Information Form, child caregiver affidavit, student full-time affidavit, active military exemption, over-70 exemption, unpaid primary caregiver affidavit, residency or name change form, doctor affidavit, and primary teacher-home study affidavit. Civil and domestic resources include a Pro-se Information Handout, Child Support Handout and Website, and the Domestic Relations Standing Order.

Some clerk links lead outside county pages because Georgia uses statewide agencies for many clerk-related tasks. The clerk page points to GSCCCA, the State Index Search for deeds and plats, the PT-61 transfer tax form, Family Violence and Protective Order materials, Georgia laws, the Georgia State Bar, Secretary of State, and Department of Revenue unclaimed property resources.

The statewide GSCCCA search page is the main public landing point for real-estate, lien, plat, UCC, PT-61, notary, certified-search, and premium-search options tied to Georgia clerks.

For Union County land and related index work, GSCCCA helps separate property-record searches from courthouse-only Superior Court case requests.

Online Union Clerk Access

Union County does not have one local branded Clerk search that displays every Superior Court file online. Access is split. Court-record copies, divorce decrees, and courthouse records route to the Clerk of Superior Court. Real-estate index searches, lien searches, plat searches, UCC searches, PT-61 searches, certified searches, and eCertification use GSCCCA tools. Georgia Courts eAccess may redirect users to provider sites and requires an account to search court records, so it should be treated as a statewide path rather than a Union-only database.

The GSCCCA eFiling portal also supports Superior Court clerks. For real-estate eFiling, the portal notice says that effective January 1, 2025, a person filing real-estate documents electronically must upload a government-issued ID under O.C.G.A. 44-2-39(b)(1).

That identity step applies to electronic real-estate filing, so filers should prepare ID verification before starting a recording submission through the statewide portal.