Find Kerr County Civil Dockets

Searching Kerr County Civil Dockets

Kerr Odyssey Public Access is where a Kerr County civil docket search starts. Pick Civil, Family, and Probate Case Records from the landing page. Skip the criminal, jail, bond, law-enforcement, and incident categories; those cover different record types. A case number is the best search term. Party-name searches work too. But common names and spelling differences can produce false matches or hide real ones, so double-check the results.

The clerk offers other routes beyond the portal. Court-specific civil and family PDF dockets are posted for public access. Help is available by phone or at the counter, and narrow records requests are an option. re:SearchTX adds a statewide angle, with Cases, Filings, Text, and Hearings modes plus filters for location, category, party, attorney, judge, and date. It is handy for finding cases across the state. The local file and certified copies still live with the Kerr County clerk, though.

1. Choose the local civil, family, and probate category.
2. Enter the exact case number, or a party name with a narrow date range.
3. Verify Kerr County, the court, case type, and filing year.
4. Open the docket and separate filing dates from hearing dates.
5. Confirm the setting or request the precise filing from the District Clerk.

Kerr Civil Portal Choices

Odyssey and re:SearchTX answer different needs. Odyssey is the primary local index for Kerr County civil, family, and probate cases. re:SearchTX spans participating courts across the state and can expose filing and hearing search modes for those same case types. eFileTexas is for filing documents. A filing account does not unlock sealed or protected records for anyone.

When the portal stalls, older official links still point to a legacy Kerr endpoint. Do not keep hammering a dead browser path. Call the clerk instead, and name the case, the court, and the document you need.

Inside a Kerr County Civil Docket

The 198th and 216th District Courts publish their civil docket lists as setting channels. Each list should carry the court, date and time, full case number, style of case, setting type, and the motion or trial description. Check the appearance line for attorneys or self-represented parties. Note any result or continuance actually shown. If a field is missing, do not invent it.

A row on a setting PDF is only a sliver of the full register of filings in a Kerr County civil docket. The index may be public while a document image stays sealed or unavailable.

Kerr Civil Dates Are Different

Dates on a civil docket mean different things. A filing date is when the clerk accepted the instrument. A setting date is planned. The court expects to hear or address the issue then, while a signed order carries its own date showing when the judge acted. Those dates can sit days or months apart. Mixing them up can make an active case look finished, or a finished case look still pending.

Motion

A request asking the court to take a stated action.

Setting

A scheduled court event, not proof that the event occurred.

Continuance

An order or action that moves a setting to a later time.

Default judgment

A judgment entered under procedural rules when a party fails to respond or appear; it is more than a docket label.

Final order

An order intended to resolve the case or a severable part, whose effect must be read from the signed text.

Read the document date, the file stamp, and the event description together. A motion to set is not the hearing itself, and an unsigned proposed order is not a final ruling.

Civil Case Types on the Docket

The 198th and 216th District Courts handle this work. They hold general civil and family jurisdiction over Kerr County cases. That spans civil claims, divorces, and land or title disputes. Texas Government Code Section 24.007 governs civil jurisdiction. It is the source, not a simplified county-page summary. The district-court threshold sits above $500. County Court at Law does civil and family work too. Justice courts take small claims, debt claims, evictions, and other civil matters within their limits.

• Contract, debt, and other civil claims
• Property, title, and land disputes
• Divorce and parent-child matters
• County Court at Law civil cases
• Justice-court small claims, debt claims, and evictions

Probate and guardianship follow separate county routes. Their setting lists sit apart as well. Family cases deserve extra caution, since a public case index does not make children's names, school details, medical facts, or protected family-violence information fit for republication.

Kerr Civil Filing and Images

Attorneys and parties file electronically through eFileTexas where required. The public searches through Odyssey or re:SearchTX. Filing access is not the same as public image access. A filer account cannot bypass a sealing order, a protected-identifier rule, or limits on which documents are available. Keep the two roles separate. The official eFileTexas source shows the statewide filing route used for Kerr County civil work.

Submitting a document is one act. Searching the Kerr County civil docket afterward is another. The first does not grant the second. On re:SearchTX, the index and docket viewing can be free. Document images may carry charges. The stated rate is $0.10 per page, capped at a $6 document maximum in general, though the live checkout controls the final cost. A downloaded image is not a certified copy.

Civil Docket Settings and Hearings

Kerr County keeps the 198th and 216th civil and family dockets on separate district lists. County Court at Law needs more than a call for a civil setting. A party contacts the coordinator at 830-792-2207. The process then continues with a written motion to set, a signed order, and the required notices. Uncontested divorces and default judgments generally require an appearance anyway. An exception applies only if the court recognizes one. Confirm any current setting with the court coordinator. District questions go through 830-792-2290. A reset, continuance, signed order, or emergency venue move may post after a static PDF was produced. Jury lists show planned trials, not verdicts. A motion list does not show who won.

Note: Keep a copy of the signed setting order and confirm the venue when a Kerr County PDF and later notice differ.

Kerr Civil Venue Changes

Flooding in July 2026 upended how the public reaches Kerr County court records. Water damaged the lower level of the courthouse badly. So the District Clerk moved public access to the Hill Country Youth Event Center at 3785 Texas Highway 27. Meanwhile, 216th civil settings shifted to Gillespie County, and other district work landed in alternate facilities. The County Clerk said operations would return to Suite 122 on September 2. Before you travel, confirm how access actually stands that day.

A docket may still list the old courthouse address. That tells you nothing about where the hearing now sits. Call 830-792-2281 for District Clerk access and 830-792-2290 for district scheduling questions. A temporary venue outside the courthouse, or even outside the county, changes nothing. The Kerr County case itself stays the same.

Civil Docket Access Rules

Kerr County civil court records lean toward openness. Most indexes are public, and many filings are too. The right of access has limits, though. Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 76a spells out the public process, notice, and findings required before court records can be sealed. A clerk cannot seal a case as an informal favor. And an open index never licenses the release of every protected exhibit or personal identifier inside a docket.

Family docket entries call for extra care. Never copy a child's name, address, school, medical facts, or protected family-violence details into any public example. When the rest of the record can lawfully be released, ask the clerk for a redacted copy instead.

Kerr Civil Copies and Fees

Civil and family filings for the 198th and 216th district courts run through the Kerr County District Clerk. The County Court at Law page says its civil cases go through that office as well. A copy request works best when it states the court, the case number, the exact instrument, the date range, plain or certified status, copy count, and how you want delivery. Email, fax, mail, courier, and pickup routes all depend on the current form and office conditions.

Older fee figures give way to whatever the current 2026 request form or fee authority says. Certification proves the clerk supplied an official copy. It says nothing about whether the allegations in the filing are true.