Bollinger County Circuit Court Overview
Missouri's trial courts are circuit courts. Bollinger County is served through the 32nd Judicial Circuit area in southeast Missouri, with local court records and filings handled from the Marble Hill courthouse offices. The practical public-record split is the Circuit Clerk for court case files and the Recorder of Deeds or County Clerk for non-case county records such as marriage certificates and recorded instruments.
The Circuit Court is not just one case type. It can include circuit, associate circuit, probate, family, juvenile, small claims, municipal, traffic, and treatment-court divisions where those functions are organized locally. For a record search, the question is usually not whether the matter is a court record, but which division created it and whether the record is public, restricted, or available online.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri is separate from Bollinger County Circuit Court.
Federal matters from Bollinger County use federal court systems, not the local Circuit Court case file.
Bollinger County Circuit Court Offices
Bollinger County does not have a list of many separately numbered district courts like some states. The Missouri Circuit Court is the trial-court structure, and the local record user normally works through the Circuit Clerk at the courthouse. The table below uses the researched court and office roles rather than inventing numbered courts that do not apply to Missouri.
| Court or office | Type | Address | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bollinger County Circuit Court / Circuit Clerk | Trial court case records and dockets | 204 High St #6, Marble Hill, MO 63764-9136 | 573-238-2773 |
| Probate Division of Circuit Court | Estate, guardianship, and conservatorship records | 204 High St #6, Marble Hill, MO 63764-9136 | 573-238-2773 |
| Associate Circuit / Small Claims / Traffic route | Lower-level civil, misdemeanor, small claims, and traffic matters | 204 High St #6, Marble Hill, MO 63764-9136 | 573-238-2773 |
| Circuit 32 judge listing | Judicial office listing | 204 High St., Ste. 4, Marble Hill, MO 63764 | 573-238-1900 ext. 6 |
| Municipal Division route | City ordinance and municipal traffic matters where applicable | Case.net or local municipal clerk if applicable | Not located |
Bollinger County Circuit Divisions
The Circuit Court can handle civil lawsuits, criminal prosecutions, family-law matters, probate cases, juvenile matters, traffic citations, small claims, and municipal-division proceedings. The same courthouse address may appear across several case types because Missouri organizes these matters as divisions of the Circuit Court rather than separate county-created courts.
For civil cases, court records may show petitions, answers, motions, service returns, judgments, dismissals, garnishments, liens, landlord-tenant actions, and small claims. For criminal cases, records may show charges, pleas, bond, warrants, hearings, dispositions, sentencing, probation, revocation, fines, costs, and restitution. Family records can include divorce, custody, child support, paternity, modifications, and protection orders, with restrictions when children, safety, or sealed material are involved.
| Division route | Common records | Main access point |
|---|---|---|
| Civil | Petitions, motions, judgments, garnishments, and evictions | Case.net or Circuit Clerk |
| Criminal | Charges, docket entries, pleas, warrants, dispositions, and sentences | Case.net, Circuit Clerk, and agency records as needed |
| Family | Dissolution, custody, support, paternity, and protection orders | Case.net for public dockets and Circuit Clerk for decrees |
| Probate | Wills, estates, letters, inventories, guardianships, and conservatorships | Case.net or Circuit Clerk |
| Traffic and municipal | Citations, pleas, fines, failure-to-appear entries, and dispositions | Case.net, court notice, or clerk contact |
Circuit Court vs Lower Courts
Missouri does not use the same district-court, county-court, and justice-court layout found in other states. The Bollinger County trial-court record user should think in terms of Circuit Court divisions. Associate circuit, municipal, probate, small claims, and traffic matters may still appear as part of the local circuit system or through Case.net, but confidentiality and access rules differ by case type.
| Comparison point | Circuit Court | Associate / Small Claims | Municipal Division |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main role | Trial court of general jurisdiction | Lower-level civil, small claims, misdemeanors, and assigned matters | Municipal ordinance and city traffic matters |
| Record system | Case.net and Circuit Clerk | Case.net and Circuit Clerk | Case.net or municipal clerk where applicable |
| Examples | Felony, civil, family, probate, and appeals from lower assignments | Small claims, landlord-tenant, traffic, misdemeanor, preliminary criminal matters | City ordinance cases and municipal traffic tickets |
| Certified copies | Contact Circuit Clerk | Contact Circuit Clerk | Contact the listed court or municipal clerk if not available through Case.net |
Bollinger County Case Flow
A criminal case may begin with an arrest or law-enforcement referral, but the Circuit Court case record begins when a charge or filing is opened with the court. The prosecutor may file, amend, reduce, or dismiss charges. The docket then records hearings, motions, pleas, warrants, bond entries, disposition, sentencing, and payment or probation events.
Criminal flow: arrest or referral › prosecutor review › complaint or information filed › first appearance or arraignment › pretrial motions › plea or trial › disposition › sentencing › appeal if filed.
Civil flow: petition filed › service › answer or default › motions › hearing or trial › judgment › collection, appeal, or satisfaction.
Probate flow: application or petition › letters or appointment › notices and inventory › claims and orders › accounting or settlement › discharge when complete.
Search Circuit Court Records
Case.net is the first online path for many Bollinger County Circuit Court records. Search by case number when a ticket, summons, notice, or pleading gives one. Search by litigant name when the case number is unknown, and add date of birth when the case is criminal or traffic related and the system allows it. Filing date, hearing, judgment, and payment routes may help when the search target is narrow.
- Open Missouri Case.net and choose the best search mode.
- Select the Bollinger County or 32nd Judicial Circuit option if a court selector appears.
- Enter case number, citation number, party name, or filing date details.
- Open the result and review parties, docket entries, hearings, disposition, and financial information.
- Call the Circuit Clerk for certified copies, older records, or documents that are not remotely available.
Case.net remote public access expanded for some public documents filed on or after July 1, 2023. Earlier documents, restricted documents, and certified copies may still require clerk counter or mail request handling.
Bollinger County Circuit Clerk
Governor Mike Kehoe announced Hattie Davis as Bollinger County Circuit Clerk on May 27, 2025. The Circuit Clerk maintains local court case filings and dockets, processes filings in the Circuit Court divisions, assists with public case-file access, certifies court documents, and helps identify whether a matter is searchable online or must be handled through the clerk.
The Circuit Clerk is the fallback office for divorce decrees, probate files, criminal dispositions, civil judgments, older case files, and certified copies. The Recorder of Deeds and County Clerk functions are separate from the Circuit Clerk for marriage licenses, recorded instruments, and non-case county records.
Bollinger County Circuit Clerk
204 High St #6
Marble Hill, MO 63764-9136
573-238-2773
County office hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday.
Bollinger County Appeals
Appeals from Bollinger County Circuit Court decisions usually go to the Missouri Court of Appeals unless the matter belongs directly in the Supreme Court of Missouri or is transferred there. A record user often needs the trial-court case number first, then the appellate case number if an appeal was filed. Appellate dockets are separate from the trial-court file and may use different search systems and document rules.
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals handles federal appeals, not Missouri state appeals from Bollinger County Circuit Court.
Use the Eighth Circuit only when the underlying case is federal, such as an Eastern District of Missouri case.
Federal Court Is Separate
Bollinger County federal matters route to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The geographically relevant federal courthouse listed in the research is the Rush Hudson Limbaugh Sr. U.S. Courthouse at 555 Independence Street in Cape Girardeau. Federal bankruptcy matters are handled by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, which also lists a Southeastern Division at the Cape Girardeau courthouse.
The Eastern District counties-by-division page places Bollinger County in the federal district structure.
Federal district and bankruptcy records use PACER, CM/ECF, or federal clerk offices rather than the Bollinger County Circuit Clerk.
The Eastern District Clerk's Office contact page gives federal clerk details for the Cape Girardeau courthouse.
The federal clerk can help with federal case access, but cannot certify Bollinger County Circuit Court records.
Federal Electronic Filing
Federal electronic filing is a separate system. Eastern District CM/ECF is used by authorized filers in federal district court. Bankruptcy CM/ECF is separate from district court filing. A Bollinger County Circuit Court user should not try to file a state court pleading through federal CM/ECF, and a federal user should not expect the county clerk to provide federal docket documents.
The Eastern District CM/ECF login is for federal district court filing and viewing by authorized users.
Use CM/ECF only for federal matters; Missouri Circuit Court public case information remains a Case.net and clerk-office issue.
The Eastern District bankruptcy court handles federal bankruptcy cases in a separate federal court system.
Bankruptcy records may affect debts, liens, or estates, but they are not Bollinger County probate or Circuit Court records.
Bollinger County Specialty Courts
Missouri recognizes treatment courts and other problem-solving courts, including adult treatment, DWI, veterans, juvenile, family, and mental-health oriented models where available. No official Bollinger County-specific treatment court page, handbook, eligibility sheet, local program page, or application form was located in the research sources.
Because Bollinger County is a small county in a multi-county judicial region, specialty-court services may be regional or case-specific. A person with a pending case should ask the assigned attorney, prosecutor, probation officer, court clerk, or judge whether any treatment-court referral route applies. Eligibility depends on case type, criminal history, assessment, prosecutor consent, and court approval.
Note: No official Bollinger County specialty-court program page was located, so no local eligibility promise should be inferred.
Bollinger County Circuit Limits
Not every Circuit Court record is open through a public search. Juvenile matters, adoption, sealed cases, expunged records, mental-health proceedings, protected-party details, and certain family records may be restricted. Public files may also redact identifiers such as Social Security numbers, financial account numbers, addresses in protected matters, minor names, medical details, and victim-identifying information.
When Case.net shows no record, the result does not always mean no case exists. The matter may be confidential, older, misspelled, under a different name, held only in clerk records, or affected by archival limits. For older Bollinger County records, courthouse fires in 1866 and 1884 can make State Archives and microfilm sources important.
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