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Searching Simpson County Civil Dockets

No single free Simpson County form searches every civil court at once. So begin with the type of matter. Circuit civil filings sit with the Circuit Clerk. Chancery case materials go to the Chancery Clerk. Justice Court holds money-judgment claims within its stated jurisdiction. Participating Circuit and Chancery dockets run through MEC with PAMEC registered access. A city citation or ordinance matter is a different animal from a Circuit civil action. Do not confuse the two.

Pull the case number, court, filing year, case style, and case type off a notice or a prior order. The public MEC pages show a credential gate rather than a full anonymous search field. Party-name, date, sort, and export controls cannot be promised before an authorized session. If nothing comes back, confirm the right court first. Then ask the clerk about a counter, phone, fax, email, mail, or older-file request.

1. Identify whether the issue belongs with Circuit, Chancery, Justice, or a city court.
2. Gather the case number, case style, filing year, and document or setting sought.
3. Use the correct Circuit or Chancery MEC profile and PAMEC account if remote access applies.
4. Match the header and parties before relying on the entries.
5. Request a clerk copy when a docket line or document image is not enough.

Simpson County Circuit and Chancery Split

Simpson County has no County Court entry in the current 2026 directory. Circuit Court serves as the general civil court above that threshold. It also covers matters not assigned elsewhere. Chancery Court plays a different role. It keeps domestic relations, probate, estates, guardianship, youth, commitments, equity, and land-related case records. The word civil alone will not point you to the correct clerk.

Circuit Clerk Witt Fortenberry keeps Circuit civil materials at 100 W. Court Ave., reachable at 601-847-2474. Chancery Clerk Tim Gray holds Chancery materials at 111 W. Pine Ave., Suite A, at 601-847-2626. That office also records land instruments. But a deed or mortgage index is not the same thing as a Chancery case docket. Need litigation rather than land recording? Ask for the case docket, party name, and case number by name.

Inside a Simpson County Civil Docket

Work through a civil docket from the header down. The header can carry a case number, filing date, court, judge or chancellor, case style, case type, status, and disposition. Party fields name a plaintiff or petitioner and a defendant or respondent. Attorneys of record appear there too. Some files add a related appeal, a companion case, service information, or a financial field where the court system exposes one. The dated register underneath gives the case its timeline.

A docket line showing a filed motion proves only that it was filed. It says nothing about whether the judge granted it. Find the later signed order. Read it beside the motion entry. CLOSED status deserves the same caution, since it does not explain why the case closed.

Simpson County Justice Civil Limit

Simpson County Justice Court takes civil money-judgment cases up to $3,500, per the official county court information and the current directory. Its civil docket is separate from Circuit and Chancery. Civil cases are scheduled apart from the traffic and misdemeanor calendar. A dispute above that threshold belongs with the appropriate clerk for court selection. So does one with Chancery subject matter. Do not just assume it is a Justice case.

Justice Court Clerk Joyce Hicks sits at 1498 Simpson Hwy 149 in Mendenhall, telephone 601-847-5848. The county publishes no online Justice Court docket search. Ask the clerk directly. Ask about a case number, the current hearing date, public inspection, plain copies, certified copies, and how to submit a written request. The county pages also post no public result-page format or guaranteed online history for these files.

Civil Case Types on the Docket

Circuit and Chancery dockets both qualify as civil in a broad sense. Yet their record types differ sharply. A Circuit general civil docket may run from complaint through service, answer, motion practice, trial, and judgment. It can end with an appeal or post-judgment entry. Chancery keeps domestic, probate, estate, guardianship, equity, land, youth, and commitment materials. Justice Court's civil docket covers money-judgment cases up to its stated $3,500 limit. Municipal courts handle ordinance, traffic, or limited municipal matters. They do not carry the full county civil docket.

Case labels demand care. A nonsuit is a termination the claimant initiated. It decides nothing on the merits. DWOP stands for dismissed for want of prosecution. A default judgment follows a failure to respond or appear as required. An agreed judgment reflects an agreement the court entered. For every label, the judgment or order supplies the controlling detail.

Petition

A filing that asks the court for relief, often used in Chancery or an appeal.

Service or return

The docket record showing issuance and return of process.

Mediation or ENE

An alternative-resolution event; the later order still determines the case result.

Abstract or execution

Post-judgment entries that can appear after the judgment.

Simpson County Civil MEC Profiles

Circuit and Chancery in Simpson County run on separate MEC profiles. Each has its own login route. A Circuit login will not answer a Chancery question. The Chancery query page, in turn, is not an open countywide register of civil court records. Both courts sit behind PAMEC, the shared paid public access layer. Its public registration page lists an annual $10 fee. That fee applies to both the Attorney and Non-Attorney categories. The terms add a $0.20 charge for each search-result page. That charge applies even when the page comes back with no match. The official Chancery MEC CourtInfo page gives the local court profile before any registered query. It records an April 26, 2017 Chancery go-live date. That date helps you confirm the right court.

What you get on the CourtInfo screen is court metadata, not an unauthenticated list of Simpson County Chancery cases or filed documents. The Thirteenth Chancery MEC landing page routes you into that same separate court system.

Match your matter to Chancery first. Use the landing page only after confirming that Simpson County is the right court location for the case.

Civil Docket Settings and Hearings

A notice of setting is a court event, never a final ruling. It might point to a motion hearing, a status conference, mediation, or trial. Always read the newest dated docket entry. A later continuance or reset can quietly replace the earlier date. The freshest entry wins. In the annual calendar, a Circuit civil term marks a block of court time. It does not promise that every pending civil case gets heard on every day of that term.

The Thirteenth Circuit information page explains the setting rules. Criminal trials are set at docket call, while civil trials are set by agreed order or motion. For a current Circuit setting, confirm through the court administrator process and the clerk. For Chancery, read the docket first if PAMEC access applies. Then call the Chancery Clerk whenever the record looks unclear. The Simpson County Court Dates page keeps individual settings separate from annual term information.

Note: When tracking a civil hearing, keep both the original date. Also keep the newest reset or order.

Simpson County Civil Status Terms

The public MEC material carries status vocabulary. None of it should be read as a full ruling. Circuit civil entries can include MEDIATION, ENE, ARBITRATION, STAYED, Final Judgment Issued, and appeal flags. Chancery labels run differently. Terms like Guardian Plan, Accounting Waived, Well Being Report, or Vault_In can signal fiduciary, ward, or file-control activity in a Simpson County case. None of them discloses the full record or settles the outcome by itself. The official Chancery MEC query route shows the Login and Password credential screen. That screen comes before access. The public page reveals none of the authenticated case-type menus, party filters, pagination, or document-price list.

That login boundary matters. An exact court and case number will always beat guesses about a public search control.

Civil Docket Access Rules

Public court information in Mississippi sits under access rules and specific confidentiality limits. A remote MEC entry is one thing. A filed image is another. A certified clerk copy is a third. An image can be permission-limited even when the docket shows its title. Youth, adoption, protected family, sealed, expunged, and personal-identifier material may carry restrictions. A document error or an empty result is a reason to verify with the court and clerk. It is never a reason to work around access controls.

Put the court, the case number, the date range, and the exact document or docket sheet in any written request. Simpson County Circuit and Chancery accept counter, phone, fax, email, and mail requests through the county information. The clerk publishes no online request tracker and no fixed turnaround.

Simpson County Civil Docket Context

Mississippi's high court publishes yearly figures. The 2024 report gives Simpson County real numbers to work with. Circuit civil filings for the county totaled 508 that year. There were 2 closures and 2,398 pending cases at year end. Copy those figures exactly as printed, even the small closure count. Chancery ran differently: 643 filings, 503 closures, and 1,524 pending cases for Simpson County. Treat all of these as annual-report rows. They describe a year in bulk, not the schedule of any one civil case.

The official 2024 annual report is where those totals come from. A report like this can't replace a docket search. It also can't replace a court order or a call to the clerk. For case-specific facts, check the court docket itself. The report does not publish an annual Justice Court civil total.

Federal appeals run on a separate track. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit handles federal appellate matters. Its pages describe that system. A Simpson County state civil appeal stays in the state courts. Don't confuse the two when reading a docket.

The federal appellate material is a jurisdiction reminder. It is not a route into a Circuit or Chancery civil docket. The Southern District of Mississippi Bankruptcy Court is a separate federal court system as well.

Bankruptcy records never come through Simpson County Circuit or Chancery MEC. The court named in the notice controls the search path.