Searching Hawkins County Civil Dockets
For Circuit Court or General Sessions, search Hawkins County Online Court Records with Civil selected. Enter a full party name. Or use the original Case Year. Or try the final numeric segment of a formatted case number. Keep the likely court office checked. The portal offers no Chancery option. An empty result there does not end a Hawkins County docket search.
Chancery, probate, registry, support, and delinquent-tax questions go to Clerk & Master Brent Price. The Circuit Court Clerk handles Circuit Civil, with staff routing to Lucy Taylor. General Sessions civil work routes to Robin Greer or Wrendi Rushinsky. These names help direct a call; no single employee handles every request.
- Identify Circuit, General Sessions, or Chancery.
- Use the county portal only for its covered offices.
- Search by name, year, number, or case reference.
- Read filings, motions, settings, and entered orders in sequence.
- Ask the proper clerk for copies or current confirmation.
Hawkins Civil Docket Court Split
Circuit Civil and Chancery share civil terms. They keep separate records. Randall L. “Randy” Collier serves as Hawkins County Circuit Court Clerk. His office maintains the Circuit and General Sessions civil court records. Brent Price is Clerk & Master for Third Judicial District Chancery Court. That office keeps the Chancery docket. It also holds minutes, revenue, probate, registry, equity, support, and tax matters.
| Route | Coverage | Access |
|---|---|---|
| Circuit Clerk | Circuit and Sessions civil | County portal, phone, counter |
| Clerk & Master | Chancery, probate, registry | Phone, counter, Tybera filing |
The county portal is a public index. Tybera EFlex is a Chancery filing channel. Filing a document there proves neither a judge's signature nor full public access to attachments. Pick the court first, then the tool.
Inside a Hawkins Civil Docket
A civil docket is the chronological index, not the whole case file. It links a case number to pleadings, service, motions, settings, orders, and judgment. Enforcement or appeal appears there too. Hawkins County publishes no official local abbreviation list. When legal effect matters, read each docket entry beside the underlying signed document. A proposed order or uploaded draft is different. It is not an order signed by the judge and entered by the clerk.
| Case number | The court identifier that keeps the civil events together. |
|---|---|
| Parties | Public names and roles, subject to protection or redaction. |
| Filings | A complaint, petition, answer, notice, exhibit, or other lodged paper. |
| Motions | Requests for court action and the rulings that follow. |
| Judgment | The entered order, dismissal, settlement, or trial result. |
Hawkins Civil Workload Snapshot
The Tennessee AOC FY2025 tables report 524 Hawkins Circuit filings and 498 dispositions. Filing groups included 197 residential parenting or child-support counts, 118 orders of protection, 109 divorces, and 39 damages or tort counts. They also included 22 contract, debt, or specific-performance counts. These are report counts only. They are not a live calendar or a tally of unique people. They are not a forecast for any one case.
A March 2025 snapshot counted 58 Chancery and 46 Circuit Civil pending records. Chancery included older age bands, while 45 of the 46 Circuit records fell in the zero-to-three-year band. That gap shows why Hawkins County civil docket research must name the venue and the date of the data.
Civil Case Types on the Docket
Hawkins Circuit entries span damages and tort claims. They also include contracts and debts, domestic cases, protection matters, and other broad civil work. Chancery keeps equity, probate, conservatorship, guardianship, support, delinquent-tax, and registry matters. General Sessions holds limited civil jurisdiction. No county source publishes a single safe dollar-threshold chart for every venue. So never use a fee label to decide jurisdiction.
- Contract, debt, property, and specific-performance claims
- Damages, personal injury, tort, and wrongful-death matters
- Divorce, parenting, support, and protection cases
- Probate, conservatorship, guardianship, and registry matters
- Appeals, writs, transfers, and post-judgment work
Hawkins Civil Docket E-Filing
Tybera EFlex through TN-CIS handles Hawkins Chancery e-filing. It is not the county public case search. The filing guide requires PDF documents, separates lead and supporting documents, sets a 25 MB document limit and a 50 MB envelope limit, and directs filers to submit redacted and nonredacted versions where needed. Its statistical data sheet stays outside public view.
Tybera's listed charges include a $5 plus 2.5 percent credit-card fee, or a $1 electronic-check fee. Public document downloads run $5 plus $0.50 per page. A separate 2026 Chancery fee sheet lists $0.50-per-page copies and $5 certification or seal service. Fees can change, so confirm the current total with the Clerk & Master.
Civil Docket Settings and Hearings
Chancery publishes listed hearing dates with a 10:00 a.m. docket start. It uses no docket soundings. A party picks a listed date. Then a Notice of Hearing or letter goes to the Clerk & Master. Jury and multi-day trials need direct arrangement and confirmation through the Chancellor's office. Confirm Circuit and Sessions dates with the office that set them.
A continuance requires court leave and good cause. The local Request to Continue form records the current date, agreement or objection, and reason. It also notes the proposed reset date and court outcome. Absent settlement, a case cannot simply drop off the docket without a date-certain reset. The Hawkins County Court Dates page explains the full confirmation chain.
The form also notes lack of service or notice. It may cite a moot motion, settlement, or other stated reasons. Court-use boxes show whether the request was granted or granted over objection. They also show a denial, so the case remains set. Some mark another resolution. An emailed request alone never changes the docket.
Missing Hawkins Civil Docket Results
A Hawkins County civil docket search that comes up empty may simply mean the case sits in Chancery. Call Brent Price at 423-272-8150. The Clerk & Master works from 100 East Main Street, Suite 316, in Rogersville and also takes Chancery questions by fax at 423-272-7347 or email at brent.price@tncourts.gov.
Ask narrowly: Give the court, case number or reference, approximate year, document name, and whether an ordinary or certified copy is needed.
For Circuit or General Sessions cases, the Circuit Clerk's Rogersville counter and phone line serve as the fallback. Civil series from earlier decades may live on microfilm or in the Hawkins Archives. No single county channel or mail procedure covers every court, so confirm the copy cost, payment method, and delivery plan with the clerk before you commit.
Hawkins Civil Copies and Fees
Finding a Hawkins County civil case in an online index is not the same as holding the paper. The index tells you the case exists. Holding the paper is something else. An ordinary copy just reproduces a public document. A certified copy carries the clerk's authentication, which some official processes demand. Ask which kind the task needs before you pay for extra service.
The Chancery fee schedule effective January 2026 sets the copy price at $0.50 per page. Certification or seal service costs $5. Filing groups and special services are listed separately. Those filing fees do not decide which court has jurisdiction. They are also not the whole cost of a lawsuit. Service, publication, registry work, and downloads can each add charges of their own. Circuit fees follow a different schedule.
To get a useful estimate, give the clerk the Hawkins court name and the case number. Add the exact document, the rough filing date, and the page range if known. Include the delivery method and whether certification is needed. Ask for a quote before sending payment. If a document mixes public and protected content, request a redacted public copy. The clerk can withhold protected portions and release what remains open.
Civil Docket Access Rules
Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 34 generally opens court records. An exception can still apply. Tennessee Code sections 10-7-503 and 10-7-504 supply the broader public-record framework and its confidentiality bounds. Family, child, financial, medical, protection, and sealed material may be limited or redacted. And remember, a public index entry does not make every attachment public.
Public record rule: Request an existing, identified docket sheet, order, judgment, or filing. Accept lawful redaction where public and protected facts share a document.
The Tennessee Court of Appeals page explains where civil appeals go next. It marks the point where a Hawkins trial docket may pick up a separate appellate history.
Ask the clerk for the specific public portion you need. A certified copy is clerk-authenticated, unlike an ordinary portal view. Looking at a record may cost nothing, though copies, certification, service, and downloads can carry charges.