Kerr County Clerk | Welcome to Kerr County | Kerrville, TX (2024)

New office hours for 2024 will be Mondays through Fridays, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

**Campaign Finance Reports are located at the bottom of our webpage. We are currently working on publishing these and appreciate your patience.**

· For easem*nts, you search in the Last Name / Business Name box, and type “vol 01” or “vol 23” (easem*nts go up to vol 23). You do not need to use quotations.

· For regular deeds, you search in the Last Name / Business Name box volumes a – z and up to volume number 930 for terms like vol a, vol b, vol 027, vol 100, vol 930, so on and so forth. Any Deed volume after 930, use the Book and Page boxes.

· For deeds of trust, search in the Document Number box for terms like Dot_Vol_279, dot_vol_10 all the way to 002 (we do not have a volume 001 in electronic format). NOTE that there are underscores in the search terms for Deeds of Trust books.

· For Deed Index Books and Deed General Index Books, search those two terms in the Document Type box, i.e. Deed index books, deed general Index books.

· Caps and lowercase do not matter; it’s all the same.

Letters testamentary are always original issuances from the clerk. No copies are made. Only the executor, administrator, guardian or the attorney of record can receive such documents.

$25 for the first page, and $4 per each page, or part of a page, that follows. All of our fees are listed here.

$29 if the clerk acknowledges the form, or $23 if you have a notary acknowledge it. Sometimes, your bank or financial advisor may offer a free notary service to its customers, so you may decide you would like to call around for the best services offered.

$21 for the first copy, and $4 per additional copy (in the same transaction) due at time of service.

Yes. You will need to complete the second page attached to the form and follow the instructions about notarizing your signature and the copy of your driver's license. For further instructions, to ensure a smooth process and to avoid delay, it is best to call us at 830-792-2255.

Yes. If the remote system connected to the State Bureau of Vital Statistics is up and running, we will be able to get your birth certificate.

No. You will need to contact the county/parish/territory/province you were born in to obtain your birth certificate.

Normally, the process takes between 5 and 15 minutes.

Yes. You must schedule an appointment with us for the acknowledgment of paternity process. Allow up to 2 hours for the process to be completed. Both parents absolutely must appear in person for this process.

The birth certificate we issue to Kerr County-born folks will work for a passport (what we issue to Kerr County-born folks is considered the "long form", because it has longer information on there.) If we issue a birth certificate to someone who was born in a different county, then that is called an abstract (or a "snapshot") with very limited information on it. It is best to call the local Passport office at 830-792-2281 to check its policy to see if what we issued you will work for obtaining a passport.

NO. You must be an immediate family member to obtain a person's birth/death certificate.

Unfortunately, no. You will need to take the same steps as you did before to obtain a new one.

Once the officiant pronounces you man and wife, you are married. It is a criminal offense upon the officiant if the marriage license is not returned to the clerk.

Divorce proceedings take place through the District Courts. The filing authority for Kerr County is the District Clerk's office.

Absolutely NOT! It is a felony offense to remove any record from the County Clerk's records.

If either of you (or both of you) are actively in the military, then please call us at 830-792-2255 for instructions about obtaining your marriage license as an absent applicant. In all likelihood, we will be able to help you.

All requests for refunds are strictly monitored by the Kerr County Clerk. The policy is: "No refunds. All sales are final." There must be an error on the side of the clerk's office for a refund to be considered. Refunds, if approved, may not happen the same day.

We do not accept personal checks for most transactions, but we will accept a check from a title company, bank or law firm. We accept all major credit cards, but there is a 3rd party 3% convenience fee (a $2 minimum) on all transactions. We accept by mail or in-person a cashier's check or money order. Additionally, we also accept cash for in-person transactions. Call ahead to confirm if we will accept a personal check for your situation.

You can pay any amount of money toward someone's outstanding balance, whether they're in jail or not. If that person is in jail, though, you must pay in person and pay by cash, money order or cashier's check. No credit cards or checks will be taken to pay the outstanding balance of someone who is in jail.

To file your notice with us will be $2.00 fee

Our office post the Trustee-Foreclosures monthly.

Yes. Press Ctrl + Home or scroll to the top sections of this webpage for the links to see the different departments of records. We also keep the old books of Land/OPR records, including plats, if you would like to view the records in person.

We certainly can and will be happy to help to get you started on the public computers in the office. Unfortunately, we are unauthorized to conduct research. For extensive research, you will need to contact a local title company.

$23 each, due at time of service.

All attorneys must use the efile system as mandated by the Texas Supreme Court and Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. If you are having technical difficulties, then you will need to contact your efile provider for assistance.