Probate Court
Judge Kipling L. "Kip" McVay
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Biography - Search Marriage Database - Search Estate Docket Database
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Legal Matters Handled by Probate Court
This Office Handles These Well Known Matters
- Marriage Licenses; Combined Index of All Grooms and Brides
- Birth and Death Certificates (until July 1st, 2005)
- Firearms Licenses
- Probate of Wills
- Administration of Estates; Combined Index of All Estates
- Twelve Months Support Applications
- Guardianship of Incapacitated Adults
- Temporary Guardianships of Minors
- Review of Accountings, Appraisals, Inventories, Where Required for Estates
- Revocation of Letters in Estates and Guardianships
- Inpatient Evaluation Orders in Mental, Drug, and Alcohol Cases
This Office Handles These Lesser Known Matters
- Appointment in Event of Vacancy in Certain County Offices
- Petitions for Involuntary Outpatient Treatment and Litigation
- Verification and Issuance of Veterans' Business Licenses
- Approvals Pursuant to the Transfers to Minors Act
- Involuntary Sterilization Proceedings and Litigation
- Permits for Fireworks
- Selection of Legal Organ Along with Clerk of Court and Sheriff
- Changes in County Boundary Line
- Enforcement of Filing of Proof of Insurance by Itinerant Entertainers
- Processioning in Land Line Dispute
- Qualifying of Public Officers and Maintaining Bonds of Public Officials
- Disclosures of Sales to Political Subdivision by Employees or Officials
- Drawing of Grand Jury Panel Upon Failure of Superior Court
- Protection Orders for Disabled Adults and Elderly Persons
- Habilitation of Mentally Retarded Persons
- Issuance of Writs of Habeas Corpus
- Ordering Guards for Transport of Capital Felons in Absence of Superior Court
- Investigation for Residency Certificates
- Preservation of Historical Data
- Orders Concerning Condemned Gasoline Pumps
- Certification of Publications for Insurance Company Charters
- Hearing of Petitions To Clear Private Ways
- Establishing Lost Documents (Non-UCC)
- Orders for Sales of Property Under Execution
- Bringing of Suits to Establish Mutilated, Lost, Destroyed Public Records
- Registration of Animal Brands
Additional Information
The Chief Clerk, Shirley Morris, prepared and published a compilation of cemetery information and death records through December 1996 titled Cemeteries of Cherokee County, Georgia. It is available for research at the Probate Court office or may be purchased from her.
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DEPARTMENT INFORMATION
| main number | 678.493.6160 |
| office hours |
Monday - Friday
8:00am - 5:00pm |
| main office location |
90 North Street
Suite 340
Canton, GA 30114
directions |
| other numbers |
| 24 hour information line | 770.704.2610 |
| Requests for marriage licenses should be made by 4:30pm |
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