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Edgecombe County Clerk Overview

The proper court clerk for Edgecombe County state trial-court records is the Edgecombe County Clerk of Superior Court. The current Clerk is Honorable Carol Allen White, identified on the county Clerk page as Clerk of Superior Court Edgecombe County. The Clerk is an elected official with a four-year term and county-residency requirement. The office performs administrative, clerical, and record-keeping functions for both District Court and Superior Court, receives and disburses court fees and fines, and has judicial functions that differ from many other states.

The Clerk is also judge of probate. In that role, the office has exclusive original jurisdiction over wills and estate administration, including appointing personal representatives, auditing accountings, and removing representatives when necessary. The Clerk also presides over adoptions, incompetency and guardianship proceedings, condemnation of private lands for public use, and foreclosures. For marriage certificates and land records, use the Edgecombe Register of Deeds instead.

The Edgecombe Clerk of Court about page identifies Carol Allen White and describes the Clerk's court-record and probate duties.

That local office page is the key source for the Clerk's identity, scope, and role across civil, criminal, and estate files.

Edgecombe Clerk Divisions

The Civil Division is on the first floor of the Edgecombe County Courthouse. The local Civil Division page lists Superior Court civil lawsuits, District Court civil lawsuits, small claims, summary ejectment, money claims, domestic relations, liens, judgments, upset bids on tax-delinquent property, and deposits of disputed earnest money. It also notes public access computer terminals to VCAP, the civil case court database.

The Criminal Division is also on the first floor and schedules and retains records for criminal case matters. It handles open traffic violations, missed criminal court dates, felony cases, closed traffic and criminal misdemeanor cases, criminal record checks, expunction process, criminal bail bonds and bond forfeitures, misdemeanor appeals, and other Criminal Superior Court matters. The Juvenile Division is located in the Criminal Division in Tarboro. The Rocky Mount satellite office handles traffic tickets, criminal court, Child Support IVD, and juvenile delinquent court.

The Edgecombe Civil Division page lists civil case types and the VCAP public-terminal note.

The civil source matters for judgments, domestic cases, landlord-tenant records, and public terminal access in Edgecombe County.

Request Certified Clerk Copies

Certified copies are used when a court record must carry official proof from the Clerk's office. Common examples include divorce judgments, criminal dispositions, civil judgments, estate letters, and orders. The first step is to identify which division holds the file. Civil and domestic records go to the Civil Division. Criminal cases, traffic case files, and criminal record checks go to the Criminal Division. Estate files go through the Estates Division.

The NC Courts forms search is the source for statewide court forms that may support record checks, filings, and other Clerk-facing requests.

Forms may support some requests, but case copies still depend on the division that holds the Edgecombe court file.

1. Identify the case type, such as civil, criminal, traffic, domestic, probate, or special proceeding.
2. Search online through NC eCourts Portal if the party name or case number may be indexed.
3. Call the proper Edgecombe Clerk division and ask whether the file is available, restricted, archived, or online only.
4. Provide party names, case number if known, document type, number of copies, certification need, and return method.
5. Pay the applicable copy or certification cost using a payment method accepted by the Clerk for that channel.

Note: Certified copies of marriage certificates come from the Register of Deeds, not the Clerk of Superior Court.

Edgecombe Record Request Fields

Edgecombe's research captured two different request patterns. For court files, the requester should contact the relevant Clerk division with enough information to locate an existing case record. For NCAOC administrative public records, the state form uses Section A for the requester and Section B for the records requested, but NCAOC states it is not the custodian of court documents, case information, marriage certificates, or birth certificates. That is why county case copies should not be routed through the state administrative request form as the first choice.

Edgecombe Clerk Fees

The Edgecombe Clerk research provides clear fee and payment rules for several common channels. A name-based Edgecombe criminal record check has a $25 statutory fee and must be paid by cash or money order to the Edgecombe County Clerk of Superior Court. The local page says no personal checks or charge cards for that record check. For court copies through NCAOC public-record policy, the research lists $0.25 per page and notes that inspection is not charged, while extraordinary requests may cost more under G.S. 132-6.2(b).

The Edgecombe court costs and Financial Division page directs users to current state court-cost publications and says to confirm amounts with the proper Clerk division.

The local cost source is important because filing fees, copy fees, and payment rules vary by case type and request channel.

Edgecombe Criminal Record Checks

The Edgecombe criminal record check page gives one of the clearest request procedures in the research. The office directs users to form AOC-CR-314 through the North Carolina court system forms search. The requester must provide the name to be checked. In person, the requester visits Suite 102 on the first floor of the Edgecombe County Courthouse. By mail, the request must state that a criminal record check is requested, name the person to be checked, include a certified check or money order, include a self-addressed stamped envelope, and be mailed to Clerk of Superior Court, ATTN: Criminal Division - Records, PO Drawer 9, Tarboro, NC 27886.

The Edgecombe criminal record checks page states the $25 fee, mail process, and name-only limitation. The name-only warning matters because common names may return multiple Edgecombe defendants who must be distinguished by available identifiers.

Edgecombe Clerk Visit Notes

The Clerk also manages courthouse-facing duties that affect visits, hearings, and public access. The Edgecombe jury duty material tells jurors to use the County Parking Lot and enter the front entrance of the courthouse. It also gives local jury instructions, which is useful context when a records request, certified-copy pickup, or case-file review is combined with an in-person court appearance.

The Edgecombe jury duty page is the manifest source for courthouse visit and juror information tied to the Clerk's office.

The jury source helps localize the Clerk page because it confirms courthouse entry and parking details from an official Edgecombe Clerk resource.

Online, Local, and Federal Limits

Online case information starts with the NC eCourts Portal Smart Search for court records and case information, hearing search, payments, and judgment search. Public self-service terminals remain important because NC Courts says criminal case information can be accessed from public terminals in a clerk's office in any county. Paper files are accessed at the clerk's office in the county where the case is located, and copies are available for a fee. Edgecombe Civil Division public terminals to VCAP add another local access channel for civil case information.

Federal records are outside the Edgecombe Clerk's office. Edgecombe County is within the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, and federal civil and criminal case records are searched through federal systems, not the Edgecombe Clerk. Bankruptcy records are also federal, not county Clerk records.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina is the federal court source assigned to this Clerk page image.

The federal court image helps mark the boundary between Edgecombe county court files and Eastern District of North Carolina records.