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To contact the Travis County District Clerk's office helpline via phone call 512-854-9457 or email us at districtclerkhelp@traviscountytx. To request official or certified copies, visit the Records Request Form.
Public access to records and proceedings holds the courts accountable by ensuring any errors, oversights, and injustices are perfectly transparent. Ultimately, this freedom helps elevate our justice system to the highest standard of accuracy and integrity.
You can file your mechanics liens with the Travis County Clerk's Recording Division by postal mail, by courier, or in person. The County Clerk also accepts electronic filings of documents from an authorized eRecording submitter.
Do judgments expire in Texas? Judgments awarded in Texas to a non-government creditor are generally valid for ten years but can be renewed for longer. If a judgment is not renewed, it will become dormant.
For general information about the open records process, please visit the Office of the Attorney General's website or call their Open Government Hotline at (512) 478-6736 or (877) 673-6839.
The district clerk performs duties such as recorder and custodian of all pleadings, instruments and papers that are part of any legal cause of action in the district courts.
If your local courts do not have an online record search system or if only some of them do, you can try calling your court and asking the clerks there to check their records for a judgment (or active case) naming you as a defendant.
Judicial records are open to the public unless exempt from disclosure, and where a respondent does not raise exemptions and the special committee cannot conclude any apply the records must be released.
You can access various court records through legal databases like Lexis, Westlaw, and Fastcase. State Law Library patrons can use Fastcase remotely to find final opinions for select Texas and federal appellate cases. Lexis and Westlaw are available at the library in person.