Where our court information comes from.

The court information is the product. A wrong filing fee or an out-of-date form costs you a trip to the courthouse, so here is exactly how we get it and what we do not promise.

Official sources only

Every fact in a filing package traces back to the court itself — the clerk’s office, the state judiciary, or the statute. Blogs and content farms are used only to locate an official source, never as the source.

For every county we publish, we record and keep the clerk’s own page, that court’s published fee schedule, and the court’s own form PDFs. Your package uses the court’s real form, not our re-creation of it.

Checked twice, independently

A second, independent pass re-derives the facts that cost you money if they are wrong — the dollar limit, the filing fee, the service fee, the courthouse address and phone, the deadlines, and every form link. It is done without looking at the first answer, and wherever possible through a different source path: the statute rather than the clerk’s brochure, the fee schedule PDF rather than the summary page.

The two results are then compared field by field. Agreement from two independent routes to the same official source is what we treat as confirmed. Any disagreement is escalated to a person rather than averaged away, and a random sample of records is audited by hand regardless.

As of this writing, most of our live counties have completed that independent second pass and we are extending it to the rest. A county is never published on the strength of a single unchecked pass.

What has to be true before a county goes live

The record passes an automated shape and vocabulary check.
The court’s address, hours, dollar limit and fee schedule are all present.
Every form link resolves to the real form on the court’s own site.
Confidence in the fee is rated, and low-confidence records do not ship.

What we do not promise

Court fees, limits and forms change without notice — sometimes between our check and your filing date. Your package tells you to confirm the current fee with the clerk before you go, and you should. We also cannot promise an outcome: preparing your paperwork correctly is not the same as winning.

We are not a law firm and this is not legal advice. What that means →

Found something wrong?

Tell us and we will fix it — for your package and for the next person’s. A reader who catches a stale fee is doing us a favour, not a nuisance. support@smallclaimsdesk.com

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