About the Assumption Parish Clerk of Court
Erin Hebert took office as Assumption Parish Clerk of Court on July 1, 2020, and her office is in the parish courthouse in Napoleonville, near Bayou Lafourche. The Assumption Parish Courthouse in Napoleonville was built in 1896 in the Italian Villa style and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, according to the clerk's site. The clerk describes the parish as lying about 60 miles west of New Orleans and 50 miles southeast of Baton Rouge.
Voters choose the clerk every four years. The Louisiana Constitution makes the officeholder clerk of the district court and, at the same time, an ex officio notary public and the parish recorder of conveyances, mortgages, and other acts. That pairing explains the range of work in one building: the staff who file pleadings for the 23rd Judicial District Court also record deeds, issue marriage licenses, and run elections. Louisiana law names the clerk the parish's chief election officer, and the Assumption clerk's site adds custodian of the voting machines to the list.
The 2020 Census base counted 21,044 people and the July 2024 estimate was 20,050, spread over about 344 square miles of land and nearly 26 square miles of water. Assumption dates to 1807, when it was set up as one of the original parishes of the Territory of Orleans, and the clerk's office says its public records reach back into the 1700s.
The Louisiana Clerks of Court directory lists Assumption alongside every other parish clerk.
Court records in Assumption Parish
The clerk's staff page lists civil filing clerks, criminal filing clerks, and civil and criminal minute clerks, all working from the Napoleonville office. For research from home, the clerk's Record Search page points to a subscription site run on Cott Systems. As of October 2026 the page lists unlimited index and image access at $20.00 for 24 hours, $50.00 for 30 days, $300.00 for six months, or $500.00 for a year, with printing at $1.00 per page. Civil, criminal, and property records are all included.
There is also a route that costs nothing. The clerk's home page says staff help visitors during office hours (listed as weekdays, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) and that public computers are available for use. State law supports that: under the Public Records Law a custodian may charge for copies under a posted schedule, but not for simply examining a record. When a requested record is in active use, the custodian must certify that in writing and set a time within three business days.
The clerk's LCRAA page covers the statewide side. Civil and criminal e-filing and e-recording for Assumption run through eClerks LA, the portal of the Louisiana Clerks' Remote Access Authority, and the clerk posts its electronic filing procedures as a PDF. That portal indexes land, marriage, and civil records across parishes, but it does not describe a statewide criminal search, and seeing a document image usually means paying for a parish subscription.
Expungements follow a statewide procedure. Under the Code of Criminal Procedure, the clerk collects the processing fees when an expungement motion is filed and serves notice of it on the district attorney, the State Police criminal records bureau, and the arresting agency. Louisiana's guides to criminal records and civil records explain how those files work statewide.
Land, mortgage, and property records
Deeds, mortgages, and other legal instruments are recorded in Napoleonville. The Cott Systems subscription described above includes the property books, and the clerk's LCRAA page says e-recording runs through eClerks LA. The clerk also promotes eClerks Alert, a free service that watches up to five names across as many as 64 parishes and sends a text or email when something new is recorded under one of them.
Assumption borders eight parishes: Ascension, Iberia, Iberville, Lafourche, St. James, St. Martin, St. Mary, and Terrebonne. Louisiana's Civil Code sends a mortgage or conveyance to the records of the parish where the immovable is located, so a tract that straddles a line is recorded in each parish it touches. For land shared with Ascension, the Ascension Parish Clerk of Court keeps the other half of the record, and acreage over the St. James line belongs with the St. James Parish Clerk of Court. Among the other neighbors, the St. Mary Parish Clerk of Court and the Terrebonne Parish Clerk of Court keep their own books.
Property values and exemptions are the assessor's job, not the clerk's, and the assessor's office shares the courthouse's Highway 1 address. The property records guide explains how conveyance and mortgage records are searched across Louisiana.
Marriage licenses and family records
Couples can start an Assumption marriage license online at no charge through the clerk's Cott Systems marriage application. After applying, they bring the confirmation number to the office to finish in person. The clerk's page, viewed in October 2026, lists a total of $32.00, made up of $27.50 for the license and $4.50 for a certified copy mailed back after the wedding. Cash, checks, money orders, and cards are accepted, and the fee is not refunded.
The timing is generous. The clerk says a license may be bought up to 30 days before the wedding, and it stays valid for 30 days from issuance. State law then requires 24 hours between issuance and the ceremony. The clerk's page also says the completed license must be filed in the parish where it was purchased, and state law gives the officiant ten days to return it to the issuing clerk, who sends a copy on to the state registrar of vital records. Each applicant needs identification and a certified birth certificate. Couples choosing a covenant marriage also file a declaration of intent with the application.
Divorces are civil suits in the 23rd Judicial District Court, so the judgment stays in Napoleonville. Louisiana Vital Records does not keep divorce decrees, and its marriage files cover only licenses bought in Orleans Parish, so this clerk is the place to go for an Assumption marriage or divorce record. The clerk also issues Louisiana birth certificates and death certificates (death records from 2013 forward), between 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., and notes that certificates for people born before 1983 may have to be updated by the state Vital Records Office. Fees posted in October 2026 were $34.00 for a birth certificate, $26.00 for a death certificate, and $14.00 for a birth card sold only with a certificate. Statewide rules are in the marriage records and divorce records guides.
Courts that serve Assumption Parish
Assumption is one of three parishes in the 23rd Judicial District Court, along with Ascension and St. James. The court's website lists the Assumption Parish Courthouse at 4809 Louisiana 1 in Napoleonville as one of its sites, but the judges' chambers and the judicial administrator are in Gonzales, reached at 225-621-8500. Filings and records for Assumption cases stay with the clerk in Napoleonville.
No city court or parish court was found in Assumption. Louisiana's Children's Code gives district courts original juvenile jurisdiction everywhere except the four parishes with special juvenile courts, so juvenile cases from Assumption are heard in the 23rd Judicial District Court.
An Assumption case that is appealed goes up to the Court of Appeal, First Circuit, which sits in Baton Rouge. Ascension follows the same path, but St. James, the third parish in the district, is assigned by statute to the Fifth Circuit.
Visiting the Assumption Parish courthouse
The clerk's office is inside the 1896 courthouse on Highway 1 in Napoleonville. The clerk's contact page lists weekday hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mail goes to P.O. Drawer 249, which is how the clerk's own site writes it; the LCCA directory shows the same number as a P.O. Box.
Vital records stop a little earlier than the rest of the office, at 4:00 p.m., according to the clerk. Passport applications are handled here as well. Because the assessor's office uses the same Highway 1 address, a single trip can cover both a property's recorded title and its assessment.
The clerk's website does not publish parking, entrance, or security details for the courthouse. Call ahead if you need accessibility information, plan to view many records on the public computers, or are bringing a large recording package.
Other Assumption Parish offices
The Louisiana Sheriffs' Association lists Leland Falcon as Sheriff of Assumption Parish, with an office at 112 Franklin Street in Napoleonville (LSA directory entry). Besides keeping the parish jail and serving court papers, the sheriff collects state and parish property taxes, as every sheriff outside Orleans does. The Louisiana sheriff's offices guide explains those duties, and the inmate search guide covers LA VINE.
Wayne Blanchard is the assessor, according to the Louisiana Assessors' Association, at 4809 Highway 1. Louisiana assessors set fair market value and then apply the percentages fixed in the constitution, which is 10 percent for land and for residential improvements. The tax assessors guide covers assessments and the homestead exemption.
The parish's governing body is the Assumption Parish Police Jury. For how police juries compare with home rule councils, see the parish government guide.