Desoto Chancery Court Clerk
Official record keeper and administrator of the chancery court
Full office description
- Chancery Court Clerks receive, file, and maintain court paperwork for the Chancery Court. They also serve as the clerk to the county board of supervisors, including keeping board minutes, issuing checks for the board, and acting as county treasurer and auditor.
- Chancery Courts are for family law, including adoptions, custody disputes, and divorces, guardianships, sanity hearings, wills, equity, and challenges to the constitutionality of state laws. Court paperwork in all of these types of cases are filed with the clerk’s office, as well as land records.
- Some Mississippi counties have no county courts. In these counties, everything that is normally heard in a county court is heard by the chancery court. This includes youth court, delinquency, abuse, and neglect.
- These are 20 chancery court districts, with one elected clerk for each district.
How this impacts you
Judicial Efficiency — Chancery Court Clerks run the court system, deciding whether people who come to court can file paperwork online, how long they have to wait in line, and how often they need to come to the courthouse in person.
Public Health — Chancery Court Clerks decide the logistics of participating in court cases that have broad impacts on public health, including domestic violence, sanity hearings, and family-related cases that can impact the future physical and mental health of participants long term.
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Misty Taylor Heffner
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