Dade County Clerk Records
Kathy D. Page is the Dade County Clerk of Superior and Juvenile Courts. The Dade clerk homepage identifies the office as the official clerk resource for citizens and others who need services from the Office of the Clerk of Superior and Juvenile Courts. The Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority profile lists Kathy D. Page as Clerk of Superior Court, year elected 2005, with courts managed as Superior, Juvenile, and Board of Equalization. It also lists Rachel Costa as Chief Deputy, Rachel Costa for Criminal and Juvenile Divisions, and Karen Pittman for Real Estate and Jury Divisions.
The clerk is the main record custodian for Dade Superior Court and Juvenile Court filings. Dade County's duties page states that all real estate records and most court records are public and may be viewed in the clerk's office. That public access is practical, not automatic online access. Searchers may need the online calendar, the official docket link, the property index, an e-filing account, an in-person visit, or a direct request for a certified copy.
Dade County Clerk of Superior and Juvenile Courts
Clerk: Kathy D. Page
255 W. Crabtree Street, Suite 103
Trenton, GA 30752
Mail: P.O. Box 417, Trenton, GA 30752
706-657-4778
Fax: 706-657-8284; jury line: 706-657-5879
Kathy.page@gsccca.org
Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
The Dade Clerk homepage is the starting point for calendars, docket links, e-filing resources, jury details, fees, notaries, and property index access.
The homepage helps separate court calendars, docket access, property records, and filing services before a visitor contacts the counter.
Dade Clerk Court Duties
The Dade County Clerk of Superior Court page traces the office to the first Georgia Constitution in 1778 as one of the county constitutional offices. The county duties page describes the clerk's core work as record keeping, information management, financial management, and court support for each Superior Court judge. The mandated duties include attending to the needs of the court, filing and maintaining criminal and civil dockets, keeping domestic dockets, filing and indexing real estate and personal property records, and maintaining the documents, microfilm, and dockets required by Georgia law.
- Maintains criminal, civil, domestic, adoption, appeal, jury, and juvenile-related records.
- Coordinates and prepares court calendars and attends court sessions.
- Records deeds, UCC filings, trade names, armed forces discharges, and other real estate or personal property documents.
- Issues subpoenas, administers oaths, executes notary public commissions, and reads jury verdicts in court.
- Collects fines, filing costs, and statutory funds tied to Superior Court filings.
The official Dade clerk duties page lists the office's record, jury, calendar, real estate, adoption, garnishment, appeal, and notary functions.
Those duties explain why one clerk counter can be relevant to a civil case, a felony case, a deed, a jury question, or a certified court copy.
Request Dade Certified Copies
A certified copy is the clerk-issued version of a court document with the official certification needed for legal use. A plain online printout can be useful for reference, but it is not the same as a certified copy. For Dade County Clerk records, start with the clerk if the record is a Superior Court or Juvenile Court filing, judgment, order, docket entry, appeal record, or certified real estate copy. Use Probate Court, Magistrate Court, or Trenton Municipal Court only when that office created the record.
- Identify the court and case type. Superior and Juvenile records go to the Clerk of Superior and Juvenile Courts.
- Gather party names, case number if known, document title, and filing year or date range.
- Call or visit the clerk to confirm availability, certification cost, copy page count, payment method, and pickup or mail options.
- Submit the request through the office channel the clerk gives you: in person, mail, email inquiry, or another approved method.
- Ask for certified or exemplified copies if the record must be used in court, with another agency, or in an out-of-county filing.
The county profile for the Dade Clerk of Superior Court publishes the local address, phone, hours, and email path.
Use that county profile to verify the current counter details before sending a payment or visiting for a sealed copy.
Dade Records Request Fields
Dade County's open-records form is a county administrative fallback, while clerk-held court copies should usually be requested from the clerk. Still, the form field inventory is useful because it shows the facts a requester should be ready to provide for any Dade records request. The form states that the county will notify a requester if records cannot be produced within three business days and will produce records as quickly as practicable.
| Field | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Records requested | Yes | Describe the Dade County record to inspect, copy, or obtain. |
| Telephone number | Expected | Used if there are questions about the request. |
| Alternate telephone number | No | Optional backup contact line. |
| Email address | Expected | Useful for response, cost notice, or clarification. |
| Requesting party's name | Yes | Name of the person making the request. |
| Address | If mail response needed | Mailing address, city, state, and ZIP. |
| Signature and date | Yes | Requester signature and request date. |
Under O.C.G.A. 50-18-71, Dade's form may charge search, retrieval, copy, and supervision fees based on the lowest-paid qualified employee, with no charge for the first 15 minutes. The county form says copy pages are $0.10 unless another law provides a different amount, estimated costs above $25 require notice, and estimates above $500 may require advance payment.
Dade County Clerk Fees
The Dade County Superior Courts cost schedule effective July 1, 2024 supplies the main clerk fee schedule in the research. Fees can depend on filing type, service, certification, page count, and whether staff assistance is needed. Confirm any filing total with the clerk before paying because service fees, post-judgment fees, and transfer calculations may change the final amount.
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Civil, modification, garnishment | $213.50 plus applicable service fees |
| Family violence filing | No fee |
| Post-judgment proceeding | May be $58.00 |
| Appeal for tax assessment | $25.00 |
| Preparation of appeal record | $1.00 per page |
| Seal or certification | $2.00 in addition to other costs |
| Uncertified copy, no assistance required | $0.50 per page |
| Uncertified copy, assistance required | $1.00 per page |
| Certified or exemplified copy | $2.50 first page; $0.50 each additional page |
| Deeds or any real-estate instrument | $25.00 |
| UCC-1 financing statement | $25.00 |
| Certificate of pending action or unsatisfied judgment | $3.00 |
The GSCCCA Dade clerk profile provides statewide clerk directory context for Kathy D. Page, the Dade office, and division contacts.
The GSCCCA profile is a useful cross-check when the local clerk site is unavailable or a requester needs division-level contact context.
Dade Clerk Access Channels
The clerk's online tools are not all the same type of service. Court calendars show scheduled civil and criminal calendar PDFs. The Court Docket quick link points to an official Dade Superior Court docket portal, but research inspection found a certificate mismatch and repeated redirect issue from the shell environment. The correct practical advice is to try a standard browser and call the clerk if the docket link fails. E-filing portals support filing and registered-user workflows, not public certified-copy replacement.
- Court calendars for civil hearing, pretrial, trial, arraignment, felony calendar call, and misdemeanor calendar call PDFs.
- Court docket as the official docket channel, with possible browser or certificate issues noted in research.
- PeachCourt for Georgia civil and criminal e-filing.
- Icon EZ-Filing for criminal case e-filing.
- GSCCCA eFile for real estate and UCC electronic filing.
For court file copies, the access sweep still ends at the clerk when a document must be inspected, certified, mailed, or verified against the official file. For county records not held by the clerk, Dade County routes open-records requests to the Administrative Office, and sheriff records requests go to the Sheriff's Office email listed by the county.
Dade Property Index Records
The clerk's real estate and property index work is a distinct access path from case copies. The Dade property-index page links current property records through Kofile and historical land records from 1849 to 1997. The page warns that online data is a public resource for general information, that accuracy and completeness are not guaranteed, that the primary sources at the Clerk of Superior Court must be consulted for verification and certification, and that the online data is not a legal document.
The Dade property index search page is the official local gateway to current and historical land-record searches.
Use the property index for research, then request certification from the clerk when a deed, lien, plat, UCC record, or other instrument must be legally relied on.
Note: Dade County Clerk records may be public at the counter even when the matching online tool is incomplete, gated, or temporarily unavailable.