Search Phillips County Court Dockets

Phillips County Court Docket Searches

Need a court date in Phillips County? Begin with the Phillips-filtered Colorado Judicial Docket Search. Keep Phillips chosen. Pick a date range, and add at least one more filter to narrow things down. The form lets you search by court level, division, party, or attorney. It also takes a case number broken into year, class, and sequence. A full case number beats a common name every time. Names pull in rows that have nothing to do with your matter.

Remember that a calendar hit is not the full Phillips County court record. For the event history, the Judicial Branch Access Guide points to an approved register vendor. Want the actual pleading, order, judgment, ticket, or certified record? Ask the Clerk of Court. Each product answers a different question. Match the request to the product you truly need.

1. Choose a hearing calendar, register of action, or filed document.
2. Select Phillips County and the correct District or County Court.
3. Enter the complete case number when it is known.
4. Read the latest setting and compare it with the newest court notice.
5. Request official documents or certification from the clerk.

Phillips County Docket Is a Calendar

In Colorado, the word docket trips people up. The free Judicial Branch product is a hearing schedule. Nothing more. It lists a start time, estimated duration, hearing type, location, appearance type, and courtroom. What it will not do is open the complaint, motion, or signed order behind an entry. One more quirk: the same case can appear on several rows for different named parties. Count by unique case number, not by row.

The official Phillips County court landing page gathers every local court route in one spot. That official page is the source to trust for headings and links. Settings change, though. Always check the live page before acting on a hearing time or local notice.

Open the live page again before relying on any Phillips County hearing time or posted notice.

Keep two questions apart. A date question asks when something happens; a status question asks what the court decided. The calendar only answers the first. A label like “Review W/Appearance of Parties” or “Disposition Hearing” confirms a setting, yet it says nothing about what was ordered. For that, read the newest ROA event. Pull the signed order when its exact wording counts. Estimated duration is just a scheduling guess. And a blank appearance type does not change the local rule: appearances are in person unless the court orders otherwise.

Court Dockets: What They Show

Behind every Phillips County court case sits a register of action, usually called the ROA. It is a dated summary. The ROA names the court and the parties. It then walks through filed events, minute orders, settings, rulings, and a disposition once one is entered. An approved vendor may display that summary in real time, which is handy for tracking a court docket as it grows. Colorado Judicial is blunt on one point, though: vendor data is not the official court record. The document images stay with the filing court.

A motion shows what a party asked the judge to do. It is never the ruling itself. Likewise, “Disposition Hearing” is a setting label only. It does not prove a conviction, dismissal, or civil judgment.

Phillips County Docket Case Codes

Case classes keep a Phillips County docket search on course. In District Court, criminal matters carry CR. County Court misdemeanors use M, and traffic matters use T. Civil searches may turn on CV, C, S, DR, or PR. Juvenile classes hold restricted material. So a missing public result never proves a file does not exist.

ROA

Register of Action, the chronological case summary.

Setting

A scheduled court event, not a final result.

Reset

A former date moved by court action.

Certified copy

A clerk-authenticated copy for official use.

Copy the class straight off your notice or filing. Guessing can bury a valid result. That risk runs highest when a felony complaint starts in County Court and later picks up a District Court number.

Phillips County Courts and Their Dockets

Phillips County District Court and Phillips County Court both run through Phillips Combined Court. One state Judicial Department clerk keeps the records for both. Note the distinction. That clerk is not the elected Phillips County Clerk and Recorder. The two courts may share a counter and phone line. Even so, court level still matters.

Where does your case belong? County Court civil jurisdiction stops at $25,000. Small claims cap out at $7,500. Appeal a County Court case and it goes to District Court. An ordinary District Court appeal climbs to the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Phillips County Docket at One Counter

One counter serves both courts, but the cases stay separate. A felony complaint might begin with an advisement and preliminary work in County Court. It then shifts to District Court if charges proceed. Each stage gets its own number. If you hold papers from both stages, run a docket search on both numbers. Never assume the later filing erased the first Phillips County docket.

For logistics, the official Phillips Combined Court location page lists the address and contact routes. It also lists the public hours. It is the surest way to confirm you have the right office before you go.

Both state trial-court record types are requested at one place: the second-floor clerk counter in Holyoke. The legal jurisdiction of each court remains distinct.

Court Dates and Settings in Phillips County

Chasing a Phillips County court date? Compare three sources. Use the latest signed notice or order, the live Judicial Docket Search, and clerk confirmation. The newest operative court order controls. A printout or exported result is only a snapshot. A reset or continuance moves a date without dismissing the case.

Plan to appear in person unless the court enters an order saying otherwise. A blank appearance field grants no remote access. The Phillips County court schedule walks through setting labels and same-day confirmation in more depth. Call the clerk when the appearance type is blank. Call again if severe weather threatens or the court has posted an operational notice.

Note: A party cannot reset a hearing just by contacting the clerk. A continuance requires court approval.

Phillips County Docket in the 13th District

Phillips County sits in Colorado's 13th Judicial District. Its neighbors there are Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan, Sedgwick, Washington, and Yuma counties. Regional judges staff that bench. Locally, the County Judge handles Division 4 work. Division E came later. A 2019 administrative order created it and assigned regional calendar and caseload duties. That is why a Phillips County court docket entry can carry a regional division label rather than a purely local one. The Phillips judges and staff directory lists the court's current personnel. Names and assignments shift. The live directory page is the reliable place to check who sits where before relying on a division label from a case lookup.

A regional assignment does not move the file. Whoever sits on the bench, the Phillips Combined Court clerk keeps the trial record and takes record requests for Phillips County cases.

Docket Access Under Colorado Law

Access is broad, but it is not the same online and at the courthouse. Colorado Judicial posts no document images from trial courts. Vendors approved by the state can display a nonofficial ROA. The clerk hands out certified copies and public filings. Some material stays limited or withheld entirely. Sealed records, protected identifiers, and juvenile files fall in that category. So do certain probate or family matters. Bring government photo identification for an authorized request involving protected content. Keep in mind that ID alone grants no access right.

A vendor search that returns nothing may just mean a misspelled name or the wrong court. An older file or a lawful restriction can do it too. For the decisive answer, ask the clerk or read the court's order.

Remote limits do not settle what can be viewed at the courthouse. A public filing that never appears online can still be open to in-person inspection. Ask the Phillips clerk. The reverse matters too. Seeing a caption or a hearing setting on a docket does not open every filing in that case. Sealing, redaction, and document-specific protections still control. Route a single case-record request to the clerk. Compiled Judicial Department data goes through a separate court data process instead.

Missing Phillips County Docket Cases

A missing Phillips County docket result usually has a fixable cause. Change one factor at a time. Try alternate spellings. Widen the date range. Confirm whether the case belongs to District, County, or municipal court. Enter the year, class, and sequence exactly as printed. A felony that moved courts may need both the County and the District Court number. Older Phillips County court records can also sit off site.

If nothing turns up, call the clerk. Have the case number, party role, rough filing period, and the exact product you need. The web request, clerk counter, phone, email, fax, and mail routes are all documented. Phillips has no confirmed public terminal. Ask before you drive over. Compiled court data uses a separate Judicial Department request route. That route is the wrong channel for a single case file.

Archived files may need off-site retrieval at actual cost. Redaction can stretch the usual response time. Ask for a document title and filing date rather than a whole file. Municipal matters go first to the issuing town or city. It either keeps the record or filed the citation in Phillips County Court. That chain is slower than a one-box docket search. It still stops a failed request from bouncing between offices that never held the record.

How the Clerk Keeps Docket Records

Kathy Browning is listed as Clerk of Court and Jury Commissioner. Her office issues register printouts. It also provides plain copies of a named filing, plus certified or exemplified copies. The online Record/Document Request Form covers criminal, civil, probate, and ROA products. Expect a reply within three business days. Retrieval or redaction work can run long.

Phillips County Docket Filing Scale

Phillips County counted 4,530 residents in the 2020 Census. Its area spans roughly 688 square miles. Holyoke, the county seat, holds the only Judicial Branch-published Combined Court location. That rural footprint makes a phone call worth the time. Make it before any long trip. The local counter also closes earlier than some statewide support lines. The Census county record documents the population and area figures. They ground this local court context.

Phillips County Court logged 41 traffic filings in FY2024. Those are filings, not people or outcomes, so do not read the number as a conviction rate.

Phillips County Dockets and E-Filing

Colorado Courts E-Filing is a workspace for filing, not a public Phillips County docket search. Licensed attorneys use it across the listed case types. A self-represented person can use CCE only for an eligible domestic-relations or eviction case of their own. Registration, opt-in, and court approval take time. The system's filing and service charges sit apart from court filing fees.

For a docket search or records, split the roles. Use the free calendar for settings. A nonofficial ROA comes from an approved vendor. The clerk, meanwhile, supplies filed or certified documents for the case. Keeping those channels straight prevents the false hope that an e-filing account unlocks every Phillips County court file.

CCE stays narrow for people without lawyers. An eviction case must already be opened with the court. Opt-in approval can take up to two business days. The published $12 e-filing charge and $12 service charge are system costs. They are not a stand-in for any statutory court fee. Those limits make CCE genuinely useful to a connected party. They do not make it a Phillips County public-record portal.

City-by-City Court Dockets in Phillips County

Phillips County contains three incorporated municipalities: Holyoke, Haxtun, and Paoli. None of the three runs its own online municipal docket. Read a city-issued citation before relying on any portal. See which tribunal it names. State traffic and misdemeanor cases go to Phillips County Court. Local ordinance matters can stay with the issuing municipality that wrote the ticket.

Amherst is a census-designated place rather than an incorporated municipality. It gets no city court page here. Each town presents its own snag. Holyoke hosts the state courthouse, yet it posts no separate city docket portal. Haxtun offers an official town site and a code library. Searching a municipal code is not the same as a docket search. Paoli has no Colorado court portal. It gets mixed up with a same-named Oklahoma municipality in general web results. In every town, the court heading and Colorado address printed on your own paperwork beat any unofficial directory.

Map and Directions to the Phillips County Courthouse

District Court and County Court files for Phillips County are both kept at Phillips Combined Court, on the second floor of the Phillips County Courthouse, 221 S. Interocean Avenue, in Holyoke. The official page identifies a single Combined Court location rather than separate criminal and civil buildings, so both court levels are requested at the same second-floor clerk counter. Appearances are in person unless the court has entered an order saying otherwise.

The local counter closes at 3:00 p.m. even though statewide support or collections lines may stay open later, so plan around that narrower hour. Official sources do not confirm a dedicated lobby terminal, so call 970-762-7010 before traveling to ask about on-site file access.