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Union Parish Clerk of Court

Union Parish has a unified Clerk of Court. The clerk's official site identifies Dodi Eubanks as Union Parish Clerk of Court and presents the office as the public records and filing hub for the parish. The courthouse counter remains the practical access point for certified copies, non-digitized files, older records, and questions about whether a record is held as a court filing, marriage record, succession filing, mortgage or conveyance record, or sheriff-created report. The same site highlights four major digital channels: eSearch, eFiling, eRecording, and OMA, the online marriage application path.

The Clerk of Court is not just a court counter. Louisiana clerks are elected parish officials and custodians for many records that other states split across offices. For Union Parish, the clerk maintains civil filings, criminal filings after charges are filed in district court, probate or succession records, marriage licenses, mortgage and conveyance records, and online record-image access where available. Court operations remain tied to the Third Judicial District Court, but the clerk is the office that receives and maintains many local filings.

Union Parish Clerk Services

The Union Parish Clerk services page organizes the office around court, records, marriage, expungement, downloadable forms, and electronic access tasks. The table below keeps the responsibilities tied to the researched local source instead of treating the clerk as a generic county office.

Union Parish Clerk eSearch

The clerk homepage states that subscriptions are available for online records and images. The dedicated eSearch page is the official access path for that service. The research capture did not expose a free open case-search form or full field labels in static text, so it should be described as subscription or registered access for online records and images unless direct portal access confirms a free public layer.

The manifest image source for online record access is the Union Parish Clerk eRecording page.

eRecording is separate from eSearch, but both show how the Union Parish Clerk supports electronic record workflows beyond the courthouse counter.

Union Parish eFiling and eRecording

The clerk's eFiling page is a filing channel, not a public case search. It is used to submit documents into the court-record system where allowed. The eRecording channel is different: it supports electronic recording of land and instrument documents, not court-case lookup. Separating these services prevents a common search error. eFiling sends documents to the court file, eRecording records eligible instruments, and eSearch is the online record-image access route.

The manifest image source for electronic filing is the Union Parish Clerk eFiling page.

The eFiling page supports filers who need to submit documents, while public searchers should use eSearch or the clerk counter for copy access.

Request Union Parish Certified Copies

Certified copies are clerk-issued copies that carry official status for agencies, courts, title work, estate matters, and personal legal proof. A printed online image may help identify the right file, but certification requires clerk action. The safest request starts with the record type, party names, case or instrument number if known, filing date range, and the exact document needed. For divorce, succession, civil, criminal, mortgage, conveyance, and marriage records, begin with the Union Parish Clerk of Court.

1. Identify the record category, such as civil case, criminal case, succession, marriage license, mortgage, conveyance, or divorce judgment.
2. Gather names, dates, case number or instrument number, and the specific document title if known.
3. Check eSearch if an online image or index will help locate the file.
4. Call or visit the Clerk of Court to confirm availability, certification process, and current copy fee.
5. Submit the request and payment by the method staff confirms, then pick up or receive the copy as directed.

Union Parish Request Fields

The research did not locate a single official Clerk of Court copy-request form with all fields. The clearest local public-records form-like process was the sheriff records request, which is not a clerk form but gives a useful model for the kind of identifying information local custodians need. For clerk-maintained records, add the case or instrument details that match the record type.

Union Parish Clerk Fees

The official research located concrete sheriff report fees but did not locate the Union Parish Clerk's plain-copy, certified-copy, filing, or subscription prices in official clerk text. That distinction matters. Sheriff fees apply to sheriff-created reports, photos, or media, not to Clerk of Court certified copies unless the clerk separately adopts the same amount, which the research did not show.

Union Parish Forms and OMA

The clerk's downloadable forms page includes local links and Louisiana Secretary of State UCC form resources. It should be checked before preparing UCC-related filings or local forms. The clerk also links the online marriage application, or OMA, which lets marriage applicants begin online and then bring the confirmation number or printed confirmation page for final processing. Marriage licensing remains a clerk function, not a separate state vital-record search for the local license.

The manifest image source for forms is the Union Parish Clerk downloadable forms page.

Downloadable forms are useful for prepared filings, while staff confirmation is still important when a form affects a court deadline or recording requirement.

The manifest image source for criminal services is the Union Parish Clerk criminal services page.

Criminal services belong on the Clerk of Court page because the clerk maintains court filings after charges are filed in the District Court.