Bexar County
Bexar County is the fourth most populous county in Texas and is home to over 2,000,000 residents. Its county seat is San Antonio. Bexar County was founded in December 1836, and was named for one of the Mexican municipalities of Texas at the time of independence - San Antonio de Bexar.
The county's court structure comprises civil district courts, criminal district courts, juvenile district courts, county courts, specialty courts, and probate courts. Civil district courts hear civil cases, including divorce, land disputes, requests for land lien enforcement, slander, election disputes, defamation. Criminal district courts specialize in criminal cases, while probate courts handle matters relating to the wills of deceased persons, declaring the heirs of deceased persons who die without a will, establishing guardianship or incapacitated persons, handling court-ordered mental health cases.
Specialty courts in the county include magistrate court, felony veterans treatment court, veterans treatment court, family drug court, children's court, prostitution court, adult drug court, auxiliary jail court, justice of peace courts, and child support court.
The Bexar County district clerk is the official custodian of civil district court records and criminal felony court records in the county. Public court records are records and documents of proceedings of court cases in Bexar courts. The district clerk files, records, and maintains original records, including documents filed electronically. These records can be purchased in person at the respective departments of the district court clerk's office.
There are multiple ways to search case record information in Bexar County. Firstly, you may use civil court records search to find court records by name or record number. Secondly, you can use the county clerk and district clerk court records search to find criminal court case records in Bexar County. Thirdly, you can view online district clerk criminal records as indexed by the last name of defendants. Only limited information is available via the third option. Note that a central magistrate search allows you to search for persons arrested in the county within the past 24 hours. In addition, the Bexar County district clerk's office also makes civil and criminal dockets available online.
