Search the Martin County Court Docket

How to Search the Martin County Court Docket

Every Martin County docket search should begin with the Martin County County & District Clerk page. Click the Online Record Search link there. It opens the county's Local Government Solutions system, known as LGS. It is the best first online stop for a Martin County district or county case. The login screen shows email and password fields, Guest Login, New Account, help, and password recovery. What the search screen asks for past that point can vary. Do not count on any set combination of name, date, or case-type filters.

A cause number is your strongest key. A party name plus the likely court helps too. Remember that results are only an index of events. Not every filed paper must appear online. If LGS returns nothing for a Martin County court docket, try the court route. Do not conclude the case does not exist.

1. Identify the court named on the notice, citation, or pleading.
2. Open LGS from the county clerk page and use Guest Login or an account.
3. Search with the exact cause number, then the case style if permitted.
4. Save the court, status, newest event, setting, and document links.
5. Call the correct clerk or coordinator to confirm a setting or order.

Martin County LGS Search Limits

The Martin County LGS portal is county-linked. The Texas Office of Court Administration calls LGS the local case-management system. None of that promises complete online coverage. The public entry shows account controls. It offers no steady list of search fields, result columns, coverage dates, refresh times, or document prices. Go by what the live screen actually displays. Older Martin County court records may still live in paper books, indexes, microfilm, or storage.

A blank result can point to the wrong court, a restricted file, a misspelled name, a case outside online coverage, or a simple display delay. Call the combined clerk before you draw any conclusion.

What a Martin County Court Docket Shows

A docket is the court's chronological register. For a Martin County case it can show the cause number, parties, lawyers where public, filings, orders, hearings, and the outcome. One caution matters here. A docket line is not always the paper itself. An entry may note a signed order while the document image stays offline. For a plain or certified copy, turn to the clerk's case file.

Martin County justice-court dockets follow a rule-based field list under Texas procedure. Expect the case title, process and return, appearances, filed papers, adjournments, trial or jury events, verdict, judgment, and postjudgment activity. That inventory tells you what a JP court record holds without any private sample.

County Search and re:SearchTX

re:SearchTX adds a statewide repository on top of the county route. Official guidance describes quick searches. Search by partial docket number or case style. Account access, filters, filings, hearings, and documents appear where available. For numbers, state guidance recommends the numeric docket with dashes and no suffix. Treat that as a Texas tip. It is not a confirmed Martin County format.

A 2024 Texas Judicial Council report described an integration push for district and county clerks, with a November 2025 milestone. It does not prove that every Martin County historical, criminal, sealed, or restricted matter is now online.

Which Martin County Courts Keep Dockets

Routing by court first prevents the most common docket search error. The 118th District Court handles the felony cases. It also takes district civil, family, and other district matters. The constitutional County Court covers county civil, probate, juvenile, and misdemeanor work. Two grouped Justice of the Peace offices hear limited civil claims and evictions. Fine-only misdemeanors go there too. Magistrate matters also land in these offices. Stanton Municipal Court takes Stanton ordinance cases. Traffic matters and Class C cases land in that court as well.

The court named in the case controls, not just its Martin County address. A felony does not belong in a County Court misdemeanor search. A Stanton ticket may sit with the municipal court, while another citation could belong to a JP.

The 118th District's Two-City Route

The 118th District Court serves Martin, Howard, and Glasscock counties. The Office of Court Administration directory lists its primary location in Big Spring. The judge is R. Shane Seaton. The coordinator is Misty Deleon. So a Martin County district case can carry a Stanton clerk record plus a Big Spring coordination route. The listed coordinator number is 432-264-2225.

That split matters most on hearing day. A Martin County filing does not fix where the next setting happens. Read the newest notice or order, then confirm place and time with the coordinator. Transfers and consolidations should show up as docket events or orders. The original cause number may stay the best key.

Finding Martin County Court Dates and Settings

Martin County publishes no standalone public trial calendar or daily docket. The county Agenda Center covers Commissioners Court administration, not civil or criminal hearings. A current court date must come from three places. Try the case docket. Try a served notice or order. Or confirm directly with the court. The full Martin County court calendar process walks through each route.

Write down the court, cause number, case style, date, time, judge, location, and setting type. Then check for later entries. A reset can leave an old event in the history while the live hearing moves. Martin County has posted no permanent remote-hearing link, local setting-code list, or daily court calendar. Never guess a video link from an older notice.

Note: The newest signed order or confirmed setting controls over an older docket line or saved calendar result.

Martin County Setting Terms

Texas trial dockets share common labels, but Martin County has published no complete local code list. The entry context and the court's own notice still carry the most weight.

Docket call

A session used to learn which cases are ready.

Announcement

A status response about readiness, plea, settlement, or trial.

Continuance

An order moving a setting to a later date.

Reset

A new setting that replaces the prior event.

Disposition

The recorded result of a charge, claim, or case.

DWOP

Dismissal for want of prosecution, often tied to inactivity.

An arraignment, motion hearing, pretrial event, bench trial, jury trial, sentencing, or review each plays a distinct role. A "docket call" entry does not mean evidence gets tried that day.

Public Access to Martin County Court Dockets

Access to a Martin County court docket depends on what kind of record it is and who holds it. Texas Rule of Judicial Administration 12 covers judicial administrative records. It is not a doorway into a case file. The material that decides a case, called adjudicative records, comes through the clerk and the court rules instead. Some things stay closed or partly closed. Sealed matters and juvenile files may be withheld. The same goes for child-protection records, protected identifiers, and certain family material. Those may be redacted or released only by court order.

The Texas Public Information Act reaches many government records. Court case files are different, because judicial access rules govern them. So before filing anything, ask which route fits. A broad public-information request is usually the wrong tool for a pleading or a judgment in a Martin County case.

Restricted Martin County Docket Entries

A blank search result does not prove the case is absent. It may just be hidden. Juvenile records can be confidential. A court may seal a file or cut off remote access even while the counter stays open for other parts. Child-protection cases in Martin County run under a confidentiality order. Data can also be redacted from an image while an event label stays in view. Ask staff whether the record is restricted, sealed, too old for online coverage, filed elsewhere, or indexed under a different style. They can explain access. They cannot give legal advice. Keep the search date, terms, portal, and response. That gives any later inquiry a clear trail.

The Martin County Clerk and Docket Records

Martin County puts the County Clerk and District Clerk functions in one office. The County Clerk side holds County Court and probate records. The District Clerk side keeps the 118th District Court proceedings, judgments, returns, and party index. Who holds the job? The live county page names Lali Ybarra. The 2024 minutes and a 2025 OCA verification identify Linda Gonzales. Address requests to the office itself, and confirm the current officeholder by phone.

The office says it stays open at lunch, which differs from general county-building hours. The published fax is 432-607-2212, though no source promises that faxed copy orders are accepted.

Martin County Copies and Fees

The fee sheet linked by the county is a scan with no date. It lists non-certified paper copies at $1 per page. That sits under miscellaneous district fees. Certification runs $5 per instrument for both county records and district records. A certified copy may therefore cost $1 per page. Add $5 certification where both lines apply. Ask for the exact total on your document before paying.

Martin County publishes no special docket-copy form, email workflow, turnaround promise, payment list, or drop box. For a mail order, confirm the record, page count, certification, accepted payment, postage, and return steps first. Then send it to P.O. Box 906.

Martin County Lower-Court Contacts

Each lower court has its own contact route. County Court questions go to 432-607-3536. Both Martin County JP groupings use 432-756-3445, and Precincts 2 & 4 also list 432-756-3711 for payments. Stanton Municipal Court takes 432-756-3304 and municourt@ci.stanton.tx.us. These numbers help you find the right custodian when a ticket or fine-only case does not show in LGS. A city or precinct name alone does not fix venue. Read the citation or notice. If it is unclear, ask the issuing agency only which court received the filing. Then get status from that court. The agency that wrote the ticket does not always hold the docket.

Court Dockets by City in Martin County

Two incorporated cities appear in the 2020 Census source for Martin County: Stanton and Ackerly. Stanton reported 2,657 residents. It runs a municipal court for city ordinance, traffic, and Class C matters. Ackerly reported 264 residents spread across Dawson and Martin counties. The 2025 OCA directory lists no Ackerly municipal court. For a ticket there, the court named on it plus the responsible JP or municipal contact controls.

Population is context, not caseload. Ackerly's two-county geography makes routing by court, not city, the essential step. Stanton's GovRec page is a payment route, not evidence of a full public docket.

Federal Dockets for Martin County

Federal cases live on a separate track. Martin County sits in the Midland–Odessa Division of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. Search federal dockets and documents through PACER; filing runs on CM/ECF. Bankruptcy matters go to the Western District of Texas bankruptcy court's Midland Division. None of those records sit in Martin County LGS. PACER carries its own account and fee rules. The Martin County clerk cannot certify a federal document, so contact the federal clerk for an official copy. This split system has a practical effect. A name may return no county result even when a federal action is live.

Map and Directions to the Martin County Courthouse

118th District Court and Constitutional County Court records are kept by the combined County & District Clerk at the Martin County Courthouse, 301 N. St. Peter Street, in Stanton, the county seat. The courthouse holds the single records counter for both clerk functions; the 118th District Court itself is administered mainly through its Big Spring coordinator, but the Martin County case file and index stay at this Stanton counter. No records annex, separate floor, or criminal-justice-center building is published for Martin County.

The clerk's counter hours differ from the county's general building hours, so use the clerk's schedule above rather than a Monday-through-Friday assumption, and call first if arriving near the Friday 12:30 p.m. cutoff. Martin County does not publish parking, security-screening, or public-terminal details for the courthouse, so confirming those items by phone before a records trip is the safer course.