Access Union County Probate Records

Union County Probate Court Records

Union County Probate Court is a court of record. The county Probate Court page states that all filed documents must be recorded and kept available to the public except information that the law prohibits from public inspection, such as guardianships and weapons carry licenses. Public records are available for inspection during regular business hours, and records dating from 2014 to present are available online.

The local Probate Court handles probate of wills, administration of estates, appointment of guardians for minors and adults, involuntary hospitalization matters, oaths of office, marriage licenses, weapons carry licenses, and certain misdemeanors, traffic cases, and game or fish violations in counties without State Court unless a jury trial is requested. That broad jurisdiction means Union County probate records can overlap with marriage and traffic pages, while estate and guardianship filings stay centered on Probate Court.

The county page is the controlling local source for Probate Court hours, public inspection language, judge information, and the 2014-forward online record note.

Union County Probate Terms

Probate records use terms that do not always appear in civil or criminal court files. These short definitions help separate a will case from an estate administration, a guardian from a conservator, and a public estate index from a restricted protective filing. The court staff cannot give legal advice or tell a person which legal path to choose, so terms should be used as record labels, not as legal strategy.

Testator

The person who made a will.

Executor

The person named in a will to carry out its terms after court authority is granted.

Administrator

A person appointed to handle an estate when no executor is acting.

Intestate

Dying without a valid will.

Guardianship

A court-supervised arrangement for a minor or incapacitated adult's personal care decisions.

Conservatorship

A court-supervised arrangement for managing a protected person's property or financial affairs.

Search Union County Probate Records

Union County Probate Court records from 2014 to present are available online through Georgia Probate Records when the category is public. The Georgia Probate Records portal includes modules for estates, marriages, traffic, wills, guardianships, hearings or calendars, miscellaneous filings, weapons carry applications, marriage applications, and petition filing costs. Online access is useful, but it does not remove restrictions on guardianships, weapons carry license records, or other confidential items.

1. Choose the record category first: estate, will, guardianship, marriage, traffic, calendar, miscellaneous, or filing fee.
2. Use the Georgia Probate Records module that matches the category and select Union County where a county field appears.
3. For estates, search by decedent name, death date range, or filed date range.
4. For restricted categories, contact Probate Court instead of relying on a public search result.
5. For a filing fee estimate, use the petition calculator and then confirm the amount with Probate Court.
6. For legal questions about whether a filing is needed, consult a Georgia attorney because Probate Court staff cannot give legal advice.

The estate-search image comes from the Georgia Probate Records estate search module.

The estate module is the central online search channel for Union County estate records from the public 2014-forward online period.

Union County Estate Search Fields

The estate search form is built for a person who knows the county, a decedent or person name, or approximate dates. Date filters help when the spelling of a name is uncertain or when a common surname produces multiple results. The research did not find full unrestricted document downloads in the public module, so results should be treated as an index and search route unless a result proves otherwise.

Union County Probate Court Contact

Union County has one researched Probate Court contact for probate records. The judge is Kristin Stephens Stanley. The office is in the same 65 Courthouse Street court complex used by the Clerk of Superior Court, Magistrate Court, and Superior Court. Probate Court closes for lunch and ends walk-in customer hours before the full posted close time, so late-day filing or copy requests should be confirmed before travel.

Note: Probate Court staff can provide records access and filing information, but the county page says staff cannot give legal advice.

Union County Probate Filing Fees

Union County Probate Court links to a petition filing fee calculator rather than a static official fee schedule in the researched material. That means the safest fee workflow is to use the calculator as a planning tool, then confirm the actual filing amount with Probate Court before filing. Marriage fees are published separately, but estate, guardianship, and other petition fees were not located as a static Union County table.

The filing cost image comes from the Georgia Probate Records petition filing fee calculator.

The calculator is useful for planning, but the researched instructions still support confirming the final fee with Union County Probate Court.

What Union County Probate Records Show

Probate record contents vary by case type. Estate files may include a petition, will, oath, letters, inventory, accounting, notices, creditor information, orders, and closing documents. A will search may identify the will information, while the estate search may identify the decedent, filed date, and case reference. Guardianship and conservatorship matters may contain petitions, medical or capacity-related information, orders, accountings, and reports, but public access is limited by law.

The will-search image comes from the Georgia Probate Records wills search module.

The wills module gives a separate search path when the question is about a will rather than a full estate administration.

Restricted Union County Probate Records

Union County Probate Court's own public-access language names guardianships and weapons carry licenses as examples of information prohibited by law from public inspection. Other restricted or redacted records may include medical or mental-health information, minor-identifying information, sealed filings, financial account details, and records blocked by court order or statute. Georgia's Open Records Act supports inspection of public records, but exemptions under O.C.G.A. 50-18-72 and court confidentiality rules still apply.

The guardianship search image comes from the Georgia Probate Records guardianships module.

The module exists, but Union County research requires a clear warning that guardianship access may be restricted by law.

Marriage And Traffic Probate Records

Probate Court also holds Union County marriage license records and may handle certain misdemeanor traffic or game and fish violations. Marriage licenses can begin online, but both applicants must appear within two weeks to finish the process. Traffic dockets can be searched through the Georgia Probate Records traffic module when the citation is part of the Probate Court record path.

Those records are still Probate Court records, but they serve different user needs. Marriage license and certified-copy details are handled in the Union County marriage record process, while citation details belong with Union County traffic court records and the sheriff citation-processing path.