7TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT (Clay County)

Clay County (Liberty, MO)

CIRCUIT CIVIL

Circuit and associate civil case information is available for all public cases that were pending as of, or filed after January 1, 1995. All civil judgments entered prior to January 1, 1995 are not included in Case.Net, unless the judgment was revived after that date. If you are looking for a judgment entered prior to January 1, 1995, you must review the judgment index located at the Clay County Courthouse, Circuit Division, in Liberty, Missouri.

CIRCUIT CRIMINAL

Criminal Traffic, Misdemeanor, Felony and DWI case information is available for all public cases that were pending as of, or filed after January 1, 1995. All Criminal judgments entered prior to January 1, 1995 are not included in Case.Net. If you are looking for a judgment entered prior to January 1, 1995, you must review the judgment index located at the Clay County Courthouse, Circuit Division, in Liberty, Missouri.

TRAFFIC

Traffic tickets and infraction case information is available for all public cases that were pending as of, or filed after January 1, 1995. Judgments entered prior to January 1, 1995 are not included in Case.Net. If you are looking for a judgment entered prior to January 1, 1995, you must review the judgment index located at the Clay County Courthouse, Circuit Division, in Liberty, Missouri.

PROBATE

Probate case information is available for all public cases that were pending as of, or filed after January 1, 1977. Probate judgments entered prior to January 1, 1977 are not included in Case.Net. If you are looking for a judgment entered prior to January 1, 1977, you must review the judgment index located at the Clay County Courthouse, Probate Division, in Liberty, Missouri.

MISSOURI ELECTRONIC FILING SYSTEM

Effective January 1, 2012, electronic records are viewable at the public access terminal at the court house. Case records in Clay County are available electronically for the above referenced case types beginning April 11, 2014. Contact the court for the availability of electronic records prior to this date or exclusions in the above referenced case types.

CASE NUMBERING

Civil, Associate Civil, Small Claims, Criminal, and Probate cases filed after April 3, 2006, will be assigned a new JIS case number. Traffic cases use the actual traffic ticket number. Therefore, all new cases filed in JIS after April 3, 2006, will have the following format:

2 – digit year
2 – character location code
2 – character case type code (CV – Civil, CR – Criminal, PR – Probate, etc.)
5 – digit sequential case number

Please substitute the case category listed below for the XX. Each of the following case categories will start with case #00001 at the beginning of each calendar year.

Note: For Traffic cases, the citation or ticket number is the case number.

The court location is the location in which the case is initiated. The case is NOT assigned a new case number when it is bound over nor is it assigned a new case number when there is a change of venue within the circuit. This assures that as much as possible the original case number is carried throughout the life of the case.