Rhode Island County Courts
Rhode Island County Courts are another source for people search, criminal records and background checks. Search for personal and criminal records find people you are tyring to locate or find criminal history and get background check through county court records.
County courts usually oversee civil cases such housing, mortgage disputes, repayment, felonies, all cases of equity and eviction, reposession, personal injury cases, breach of contract, small claims, and divorces and adoptions, violations of county law and statues, traffic cases. Also land appropriations, guardianships, probate, involuntary hospitalization for mental institutes. Probate courts also rule over last testaments and wills. So whether you have a case you need to take to court or you want to research other cases or someones background county courts have a wealth of civil court cases to be researched most background checks include civil cases and document case numbers, offenses and judgements and convictions for felonies or any other matter.
If you are researching marriage and divorce county courts are the place to start your search of course you can try to save yourself time by getting an online report usually background checks and some people search reports include some of the information you search in courts but if you don't want to spend the money or have time to do the research yourself you can go to the court and request to see files and documents unless the case file is sealed by a judge for privacy.
Also County courts are where you can do searches for marriage records or to obtain marriage certificates if you are planning to get married.
Rhode Island Asset Research Resources
Bristol
Bristol Clerk
1 Dorrance Plaza
Bristol, RI 02809
Telephone: (508) 823-6588
Kent
Kent Clerk
222 Quaker Lane
East Greenwich, RI 02818
Telephone: (401) 841-8350
Newport
Newport Clerk
Washington Square
Newport, RI 02840
Telephone: (401) 841-8350
Providence
Providence Clerk
250 Benefit St.
Providence, RI 02903-2719
Telephone: (401) 277-6710
Washington
Washington Clerk
4800 Tower Hill Road
Wakefield, RI 02879
Telephone: (401) 841-8350