New Jersey County Courts
New Jersey 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.
New Jersey County Court Records
Atlantic
Atlantic Clerk
5901 Main St.
Mays Landing, NJ 08330
Telephone: (609) 625-4011
Bergen
Hackensack Dept of Health
215 State Street
Hackensack, NJ 07601-7017
Telephone: (201) 646-3966
Burlington
Burlington Clerk
49 Rancocas Road
Mount Holly, NJ 08060-1384
Telephone: (609) 265-5020
Camden
Camden Clerk
5th and Mickle Boulevard
Camden, NJ 08103-4001
Telephone: (609) 225-7214
Cape May
Cape May Clerk
7 N. Main Street
Cape May Court House, NJ 08210
Telephone: (609) 465-1010
Cumberland
Cumberland Clerk
Broad and Fayette
Bridgeton, NJ 08302
Telephone: (609) 451-8000
Essex
Essex , City of Newark
920 Broad Street Room 111
Newark, NJ 07101
Telephone: (973) 733-6510
Gloucester
Gloucester Clerk
1 N. Broad Street
Woodbury, NJ 08096-7376
Telephone: (609) 853-3200
Hudson
Hudson Clerk
595 Newark Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07306-2394
Telephone: (201) 795-6600
Hunterdon
Hunterdon Clerk
71 Main Street
Flemington, NJ 08822
Telephone: (908) 788-1221
Mercer
Mercer Clerk
P.O. Box 8068
Trenton, NJ 08650-0068
Telephone: (609) 989-6517
Monmouth
Monmouth Clerk
1 East Main St.
Freehold, NJ 07728-1255
Telephone: (908) 431-7387
Morris
Morris Clerk
P.O. Box 900
Morristown, NJ 07960-0900
Telephone: (973) 285-6120
Ocean
Ocean Clerk's Office
P.O. Box 2191
Toms River, NJ 08754
Telephone: (732) 929-2053
Passaic
Passaic Clerk
77 Hamilton Street
Paterson, NJ 07505-2018
Telephone: (973) 225-3632
Salem
Salem Clerk
92 Market Street
Salem City, NJ 08079-1913
Telephone: (609) 935-7510
Somerset
Somerset Clerk
P.O. Box 3000
Somerville, NJ 08876-1262
Telephone: (908) 231-7006
Sussex
Sussex Office of the Clerk
4 Park Place
Newton, NJ 07860
Telephone: (973) 579-0900
Union
Union Clerk
2 Broad St.
Elizabeth, NJ 07201
Telephone: (908) 527-4966
Warren
Warren Clerk
Rt. 519
Wayne Dumont Jr. Bldg.
Belvidere, NJ 07823
Telephone: (908) 475-5361