Find Scott County Marriage Records

Scott County Marriage License Office

Marriage licenses in Scott County are handled by the Scott County Clerk marriage license office, not by the court clerk. The local clerk states that Kentucky marriage licenses from this office are issued by appointment only. The same office also handles certified copy requests for licenses that were issued by and recorded in Scott County. That distinction matters when a couple married elsewhere in Kentucky, because the local clerk can only certify the Scott County record.

The County Clerk is Rebecca M. Johnson. The main office is at 101 E. Main St., Georgetown, KY 40324, with general office hours of Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The main phone line is 502-863-7875. Marriage licenses and notary bonds require appointments, so a walk-in visit may not be enough for a same-day license. The clerk's research also notes that the office accepts cash, personal check, cashier's check, money order, credit card, and debit card for marriage license payment.

The Scott County Clerk's marriage license services page shows the local service tiles for license appointments and marriage copy requests.

Use the County Clerk path for license applications and certified marriage copies, while court divorce records stay with the Circuit Court Clerk.

Apply for Scott County Marriage Records

The appointment system is the practical starting point for a Scott County marriage license. The clerk's appointment page says the application may be submitted up to 45 days before the ceremony, but the appointment will not be scheduled sooner than 30 days before the ceremony date. Kentucky law also limits the life of the license. Under KRS 402.105, a Kentucky marriage license is valid for 30 days, including the date it is issued.

1. Open the Scott County Clerk marriage license appointment page and review the timing notices before starting the request.
2. Confirm the ceremony date. Do not submit earlier than the local 45-day application window, and expect the appointment to fall inside the 30-day period before the ceremony.
3. Complete the online appointment request and wait for the clerk's office to schedule the visit.
4. Bring identification and payment to the County Clerk appointment. The official page reviewed did not list every ID rule, so call 502-863-7875 before the visit.
5. Pay the marriage license fee and use the license within the 30-day validity period.
6. After the ceremony, make sure the completed license is returned and recorded so certified copies can be issued later.

The appointment page at the Scott County Clerk site shows the fee and payment choices before an applicant enters the request workflow.

The timing language on that screen is useful because it prevents early applications that cannot be scheduled under the clerk's current process.

Scott County Marriage Form Fields

The research captured the first step of the Scott County Clerk appointment request. Later applicant details were not fully visible in the accessible text, so the field table below sticks to the verified form inventory rather than guessing at every personal field. Expect the clerk to ask for enough information to identify both applicants and the intended ceremony, but rely on the live form and the clerk's office for the final required entries.

Scott County Marriage and Divorce Fees

Scott County published exact local fees for marriage licenses and marriage certified copies in the research set. The divorce side is different. Divorce filing fees and certified court-copy charges are court fees, and the probate research warned that Kentucky civil filing fees changed on July 1, 2026 under Supreme Court orders. Because the assigned source material did not provide a current Scott County divorce filing amount, use the Circuit Court Clerk for the current amount before filing or ordering a decree.

The Scott County Clerk marriage copy request form shows the certified copy quantity, contact fields, and fee note for marriage records.

Certified marriage copies come from the County Clerk only when the original license was issued and recorded in Scott County.

Search Scott County Marriage Records

Marriage record lookup in Scott County follows the County Clerk channel. A person who needs a certified copy can use the clerk's online copy request. A person who needs to inspect recorded documents can use the County Clerk's public records tools, including eCCLIX or the public terminal in the Deed & Recording Room. The clerk's public land records page states that the office houses legal land records, deeds, mortgages, wills, marriage licenses, and notary bonds.

The certified copy request form asks for a quantity, submitter name, submitter email, and submitter phone number. The form shows quantity choices of 1, 2, or 3 copies. If the copy is not for a license recorded in Scott County, contact the county that issued the license. For broad vital-record questions, the Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics may be useful, but the local research identifies the Scott County Clerk as the office for Scott County licenses.

Find Scott County Divorce Records

Divorce records in Scott County are court records. The County Clerk's website explicitly directs divorce, adoption, and name-change matters to the Scott County Circuit Court Clerk at the Justice Center. Kentucky Circuit Court has jurisdiction over divorce, and Family Court operates as a Circuit Court division for dissolution of marriage, spousal support, property division, child support, visitation, paternity, domestic violence, and related family matters.

Public divorce case information may be searched through KYeCourts public case access when the case is not restricted. Full case-file copies, certified divorce decrees, older files, and questions about sealed family attachments should go to the Circuit Court Clerk. For old files stored at a state records facility, the local clerk must first provide case and file locator numbers before the State Records Center can process the request. Divorce files may contain child, domestic-violence, financial-account, and sealed-order material, so not every document in a family case is public.

The Scott County Clerk appointment request form is separate from divorce case access, but it shows how marriage records enter the local record chain.

Once a marriage ends in divorce, the court case record is maintained through the Circuit Court Clerk instead of the County Clerk licensing workflow.

Note: Adoption records and many family-court attachments are not ordinary public lookup records in Scott County.

Certified Scott County Copies

A certified copy is the clerk-issued copy used for legal, school, benefit, name-change, passport, or agency purposes. For a Scott County marriage license, order from the Scott County Clerk if the license was issued and recorded locally. For a divorce decree, ask the Circuit Court Clerk because the decree is part of the court case file. The two offices are close in downtown Georgetown, but they do not hold the same record sets.