CLERK OF CIRCUIT COURT & COMPTROLLER

Description: Do you have a handicap that requires accommodation from the Court or when doing business with the Clerk of Court? This page has information on the assistance that is available.

Description: Are you an attorney looking for information that will be useful for you with regards to the Hillsborough County Clerk of Court & Comptroller or from the 13th Judicial Circuit Court? This page may have the information that you can use.

Description: Looking to contact (email) the Clerk's Office? Then this page is the one you are looking for.

Description: Family Law cases include Dissolution of Marriage (divorce), Annulment, Name Change, Adoption, Delayed Birth Certificates, Support (Foreign and local), Custody, Paternity and Alimony. Find information about this and more on this page.

Description: Are you not finding the records or data that you expected on the Clerk website? The Clerk may likely not be the custodian of those records. Check here first before calling, emailing or coming down in person to find out now if some other agency holds those records and how to reach that agency, or to find out what records the Clerk is the custodian of.

Description: If you are looking for information about evictions, unlawful detainers, the eviction process, landlord rights and responsibilities, tenant rights and responsibilities, and homeless resources, this page has the answers.

Description: Do you have questions about probate, wills, guardianship, trusts, local and foreign wills, filing a will, estates, probate proceedings, what happens if there is no will when someone dies, and the fees, then this page will get you those answers.

Description: Are you a member of the media with an inquiry, question, looking for information? This page has information on Clerk Communications contacts.

Description: Are you looking for copies of a blank form or forms you can download? The Clerk has many forms, but is not the custodian of all forms that you might possibly need. If you don't find the form you need here, you can usually buy it from an office supply store. This page has some blank forms for bond agent registration, change of contact information, child support, circuit civil, county civil, evictions, small claims, domestic partnership registry, domestic violence, injunctions for protection, dating violence, repeat violence, sexual violence, e-filing, expungement and sealing, family law, adoption, alimony, child support, name change, paternity, petitions, custody, visitation, timesharing, circuit civil felony, health education and life planning, home solicitation, indigency screening, lobbyist, marriage license, baker act, marchman act, mental health, official records, declaration of domicile, redaction request, passport, probate, document request, value adjustment board, vab hearing, and more.

Description: Do you have questions about the official records of Hillsborough County, how to record an official record, how to get a copy of an official record, what the fees are to get copies, how to electronically record an official record, how to view an official record, how to enroll in a subscription to view official records online, the redaction of confidential information from official records that can be viewed online, deeds and quit claim deeds, what types of documents can or should be recorded, getting certified copies of official records, how to record or domesticate a foreign judgment, how to record a declaration of domicile, and much more, then this page will take you to the answers.

Description: High Profile Case(s) can be accessed through the link under Additional Viewing on the HOVER Home page.

Description: Do you have questions about the Hillsborough County Domestic Partnership Registry, how it differs from a city DPR, what form or affidavit you need to register, the benefit of registering with the Clerk, how the registry works, what if you get married or divorced or separate after registering, confidentiality, the rights and legal affect of a registered domestic partnership, the HELP (Health, Education and Life Planning) Registry, fees, and much more, this page will get you to the answers.

Description: What is notarizing, apostille certification, remote notarial acts? Why is it important to have documents notarized? What different types of notarial acts are there? What notary services does the Clerk's Office offer? What is Notarial or Apostille Certification? How do you become a notary in Florida? This page has all of the answers to these questions.

Description: Are you a property owner that believes that the County Property Appraiser has over assessed your property or improperly denied an exemption or classification or the County Tax Collector improperly denied you a tax deferral? If so, the Value Adjustment Board or VAB may be able to help address your complaint. This page has the information you need.

Description: Are you looking for information about sealing or expungement of criminal history records, or how to expunge a criminal record? This page has those answers.

Description: Do you have questions about misdemeanor records and court files, non-criminal traffic tickets, charging documents from law enforcement agencies, arraignments, processing cash bond refunds, court, and much more, this page has those answers.

Description: The Juvenile Dependency page has answers to questions relating to juveniles who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected, surrendered for the purpose of adoption, or who are persistent runaways, habitually truant or ungovernable.

Description: Are you looking for information about filing an appeal, what happens after you file an appeal, can you file an appeal without an attorney, and what it costs to file an appeal, this page has information that can help answer those questions.

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Description: Clerk of the Court & Comptroller Legal Information and Disclaimer Statement.

Description: Before you visit the Clerk's Office in person, review the information on this page first. It might save you a visit or make you better prepared for your visit so you don't have to come back again.

Description: The Clerk’s Office is committed to the solicitation of minority businesses or small business enterprises to provide meaningful economic opportunities in the procurement process. We encourage all of our suppliers to utilize minority businesses or small business enterprises whenever possible.

Description: The Clerk’s Office is committed to the solicitation of minority businesses or small business enterprises to provide meaningful economic opportunities in the procurement process. We encourage all of our suppliers to utilize minority businesses or small business enterprises whenever possible.

Description: If you are looking for information on programs and services for mental illness, drug abuse, developmentally disabled, tuberculosis, adult protective services, adjudication of incapacitated persons, restoration of capacity for persons having previously been declared incapacitated, and pre-need guardians, along with information about risk protection orders, the Baker Act and the Marchman Act, this page will help you.

Description: This page provides information about the Clerk, working for or with the Clerk's Office and ways to contact the office.

Description: ClerkExpress is an online service that lets you view what the wait times are for various services at each service location for the Clerk and, for some services, you can "get in line". For other services, you can schedule an appointment online. Visit this page to schedule an appointment for service or to find out if now is a good time to come down and get service from the Clerk.

Description: Florida CCOC Budget Submission for Hillsborough County

Description: Preorder case files for Circuit Civil, County Civil, Family Law, Felony, and Misdemeanor through this page.

Description: Are you looking for information about the Clerk's electronically certified documents? Did you receive a Hillsborough County Clerk eCertified document and are wondering if it is authentic? What sort of records is the Clerk able to provide electronic certification for? How electronic certification works? This page has the answers to all of these questions.

Description: If you are looking for information about the Civil Courts, Circuit Civil, Probate and Guardianship, County Civil, Lawsuits, Small Claims, Family Law, Child Support, Adoption, Foreclosure Sales, Juvenile Dependency, Mental Health, Domestic Violence, restraining Orders, File / Filing without an Attorney, Tax Deed Sales, Criminal Courts, Traffic Courts, Appeals, Bond Agent Registration, Expungement /Expunging Records and Sealing Records, Juvenile Delinquency, Circuit Criminal, County Criminal, Traffic Court, Viewing Case Files Online and requesting Copies of Court Documents, this page has links to information on all of this.

Description: This interactive map is being provided as a free service to the public to enable the lookup of a Hillsborough County street address to determine which division (east or west) of the 13th Judicial Circuit Court a case should be filed under

Description: Annual Budget Book All Functions

Description: County Audit Report 393 Quarterly COCC Follow Up

Description: County Audit Report 392 Quarterly BOCC Follow Up

Description: Are you looking for information on getting married in Florida and in Hillsborough County? Do you want to know who you are allowed to marry, if you need a marriage license, who can perform the marriage ceremony, if a blood test is required or a waiting period, what it will cost? How about getting marriage and divorce records? How about changing your name once you are married? All of this information and more can be found in this section.

Description: Are you looking for information about how you can represent yourself in court without an attorney, which is also called a Self-Represented Litigant or Pro Se. If you are a low income resident, are you looking for information about how you can get free or low cost legal assistance? This page has those answers.

Description: Come here to get information on traffic tickets and parking citations, paying tickets, requesting a court hearing or setting a court date, driver school, submitting proof of compliance and school completion certificates, driving history, look up your case, and much more. [Pay ticket, set court date, request court hearing, traffic ticket, traffic citation, request hearing, court date, traffic court, request court date]

Description: Are you trying to figure out how to look up information about your traffic ticket online, but you have misplaced your traffic ticket, and do not know the number? No worries, you can look it up with your name. This page has step by step instructions on how to do that.

Description: Do you want to look up a traffic ticket online and pay the fine online using a credit card? This page shows you how to do this step by step.

Description: Have you elected to go to traffic school after paying for your traffic ticket, and you want to make sure that your school submitted the completion certificate to the clerk? This page will provide you with step by step instructions on how to check for yourself online.

Description: Are you looking for step by step help on how to look up your traffic ticket online, then pay for your traffic ticket online and elect traffic school to avoid points? This page has the information you are looking for.

Description: Are you looking for information on how you can request a court hearing for your traffic ticket and make that request online? This page has those answers and step by step instructions for you.

Description: Are you looking for information on how to request a court hearing for a traffic ticket or a parking ticket? This page has the answers you are looking for.

Description: Answers about parking tickets issued by the Hillsborough County Sheriff, how to pay for parking tickets, how to challenge parking tickets, can be found on this page.

Description: Do you have a traffic ticket that requires you to submit proof of compliance, such as correction of an equipment defect, or proof that you have valid insurance, registration and/or driver's license? This page gives you step by step instructions on how to submit that proof online.

Description: What is traffic school, driving school, basic driver improvement school? How do you sign up? Are you eligible? What sort of tickets can you elect driving school for? Answers to these questions and many more are on this page.

Description: What is a no contest plea? Why might I want to do make one? How do I make a no contest plea? All of the information you need to know about no contest pleas are located on this page.

Description: If you have a hearing coming up, it is your responsibility to make sure that the Clerk always has your current mailing address. This page has information on submitting change of contact information to the Clerk.

Description: Do you have questions about civil traffic tickets? What are all of your options with this type of ticket? Can you go to traffic or driver school? Can you pay the fine? Can you challenge the ticket? This page has the answers.

Description: Have you received a ticket and were told you had to go to court, that it was a criminal ticket? You will have lots of questions about this type of ticket, and this page has the answers. It is important that you appear in court for this ticket; failure to do so may result in a warrant for your arrest. Get everything you need to know here.

Description: Are you looking for information on mandatory traffic tickets? Why might a traffic ticket require a mandatory court appearance? What are your options with this type of ticket? Why might there be different fine amounts for this ticket than what appears on the ticket?

Description: Are you wondering about points on your driver's license, what points are for, how many points you get for certain violations, how you can keep points off your driver's license, how long points stay on your driver's license? Answers to these questions and more are on this page.

Description: Do you have questions about proof of compliance tickets? These are tickets for unsafe or defective equipment, or for not carrying proof of current driver's license, registration and insurance. You will find the answers to all your questions about this type of ticket on this page.

Description: This page contains a complete list of the self-service options that that Clerk offers 24/7, via telephone and/or online. You would be surprised to see just how much you can take care of yourself without having to come to the Clerk's office, at any time of the day or any day of the week!

Description: If you are looking for information about child support payments, payment history requests, modifying child support orders, late child support payments, reinstating drivers license after suspension for non-payment of child support and more, this page should have the answers you seek.

Description: Are you late making your child support payments? Are you the custodial parent who has not been receiving the child support payments? Has your driver's license been suspended for not making child support payments? Do you have a court judgment for child support? You will find answers you need here.

Description: If you are looking for information on issuing a foreign subpoena pursuant to UIDDA Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act in Hillsborough County Florida, this page will contain those answers.

Description: Have you filed your initial eviction complaint against a tenant for reasons other than non-payment of rent, and you want to know what's next, this page has the information you need.

Description: If you are looking for information about a court or a county virtual, remote, online or zoom information, this page can direct you to where to go to get support

Description: Are you looking for a recording or transcript from a court hearing? The Clerk is not the custodian of these files but this page will direct you to where you can order those files.

Description: Have you already filed an eviction complaint against a tenant for non-payment of rent? This page will show you what to do next.

Description: If you are looking for information about final judgments for past due rent, this page may have the answers you need.

Description: Are you looking for information about residential property evictions, where you have a tenant with whom you have a lease agreement who is required to pay rent in order to stay there, and you want to evict that tenant? This page has the information you are looking for.

Description: Are you a property owner who has someone staying on your property that you have no lease agreement with and have not been requiring this person to pay rent to be allowed to stay there, but you now want them removed from your property? This page has the information you are looking for.

Description: Are you wondering what your options are for payment of fees and/or fines? This page lists those options and has links for any that are online payment options.

Description: This page contains all of the forms that the Clerk's Office provides for Value Adjustment Board cases, along with links to many forms provided by the State.

Description: This page contains all of the forms that the Clerk's Office provides for injunctions for protection for domestic violence (restraining orders), domestic violence, and vulnerable adults court cases. These might not be every possible form that you case may need. In case the form is not here, please visit the Law Library to get the other forms that you need.

Description: The Clerk's Office offers paid internship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students interested in gaining hands-on experience in various departments. Interns can work in fields such as Finance, Court Operations, Human Resources, Board Services, Operations, Audit, Information Technology, or Communications/Marketing. If you're passionate about working in government and gaining valuable experience, consider applying for an internship at the Hillsborough County Clerk's Office.

Description: Do you need answers to your questions about domestic violence, stalking, restraining orders or injunctions for court protection, repeat violence, sexual violence, repeat violence, court requirements, filing fees, the process to file for a restraining order, and much more, this page has the information you are looking for.

Description: Are you looking for information about applying for a U.S. Passport? Do you want to know what is required in order to apply for a passport and where you can get the application forms? Do you want to know what the passport photograph requirements are and where you can get your passport photos taken? Do you want to know what the fees are to apply for a passport via the Clerk's Office and how long it usually takes for the State Department to processes these applications? Do you want to make an appointment to apply for your passport at the Clerk's Office? Our Passport Services page will provide or link you to answers to all of these questions.

Description: If you are looking for forms for eviction court cases, this page contains all of the forms that the Clerk provides (but not necessarily every form your case might possibly need -- in that case, visit the Law Library for those additional forms)

Description: Do you have questions about foreclosure sales, researching or viewing upcoming foreclosure sales or auctions online, the Notice of Sale, when and where foreclosure sales are held, determining if a property has current liens or encumbrances, bidding on foreclosure sale properties, Right of Redemption, Certificate of Sale, Certificate of Title, foreclosure sale cancellation, surplus funds, and fees associated with foreclosure sales, this page has these answers.

Description: Are you looking for copies of the Hillsborough County Audit Reports from the last five years that are available online, this page has all of those reports available for download.

Description: Are you looking for information about evictions, the eviction process, specific types of evictions (commercial property, residential property, unlawful detainer/ejectment)? Answers to these questions and more can be found on this page.

Description: Are you a door-to-door solicitor who is looking for information on County Home Solicitation Sales Permits? You will find that information on this page, along with what the fees are and a link to schedule an appointment to apply for it.

Description: Holiday schedule for the Clerk of the Circuit Court, Hillsborough County, Florida

Description: Read the latest message from the Hillsborough County Clerk of Court and Comptroller

Description: Periodically, Clerk Cindy Stuart opens up our Passport office and offers passport application acceptance on a Saturday to help those customers who just cannot get here during the normal workweek to have their passport application reviewed. Check this link to see if a Passport Saturday is scheduled in the near future. Otherwise, you need to come in during normal Passport Acceptance business hours (Monday thru Friday).

Description: Are you a property owner that believes that the County Property Appraiser has over assessed your property or improperly denied an exemption or classification or the County Tax Collector improperly denied you a tax deferral? If so, the Value Adjustment Board or VAB may be able to help address your complaint. This page has the information you need.

Description: Sign up to speak during the public portion of the virtual VAB (Value Adjustment Board) meeting.

Description: The Clerk's Strategic Plan is the framework for our mission and our values, which are used to determine our goals..

Description: This page contains all of the Family Law court case forms that the Clerk's Office provides. It may not contain every possible form that your case may need; if you don't find it here, please contact your local Law Library for assistance with getting those other forms.

Description: Financial Reports for Hillsborough County, Florida

Description: If you are looking for the current list of approved pre-marital course providers for Hillsborough County, this page contains that list, sorted alphabetically.