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The Prothonotary's office is where the civil records listed below are kept on a permanent basis. At this office you will find records accurately indexed in terms of name and case number. We became computerized in April of 1993 and began scanning records in April of 2001. Some of the types of cases and actions that are filed with the Prothonotary are:

 

Administration of Oaths	Municipal Lien
Appeal of District Justice Decision	Naturalization
Appeal of Driver License Suspension	No Lien Court
Appeal to a Higher Court	Passports
Arbitration	Petition for the Opening of Ballot Boxes on recounts
Civil Action Complaint	Petition to Change Name
Commonwealth Tax Lien	Praecipe Writ of Summons
Complaint in Ejectment	Protection From Abuse
Custody	Quiet Title
Determination of Inactivity	Records of Treasurer Sale
Divorce and Annulment	Registration of Attorneys
Federal Tax Lien	Registration of Financial Statement
Genealogy	Return to Former Name after Divorce
Judgment Note	Satisfactions and Discontinuances
Judgments	Scan All Records
Maintain Old Records on Microfiche	School Audit Records
Mechanical Lien	Transcripts
Medical Malpractice	Writ of Execution/Writ of Possession
Mortgage Foreclosure	Zoning Appeal

 

All records in the Prothonotary's Office are available to the public in our office, except on specific occasions when a record is sealed by Order of Court.  We maintain four computer terminals from which the general public, attorneys, abstractors, and others may obtain information. Individual documents as well as docket sheets (overviews of cases in order by the date of filings) may be printed for your use.

 

The current Solicitor for the Prothonotary Office is Lee A. Montgomery, Esquire. Our solicitor is an experienced Butler County attorney who advises the Prothonotary on legal matters.