About the Union Parish Clerk of Court
Before you drive to Farmerville, check which building you need. The Union Parish Clerk of Court's home page says the Civil, Probate, Juvenile, Protective Orders, and Non-Support departments have temporarily moved to 207 East Bayou Street. The main office, including recording, remains at 100 East Bayou Street, Suite 105, the address on the contact card above. The site does not say how long the move will last.
Dodi Eubanks is the clerk. The clerk's own site gives July 1, 2008, as the date Eubanks took office, which matches the July 2008 tag in the Louisiana Clerks of Court Association (LCCA) directory. Like every Louisiana clerk, Eubanks holds an elected four-year office created by Article V, Section 28 of the state constitution, which also makes the clerk ex officio notary public and recorder of conveyances, mortgages, and other acts. Union's clerk is therefore three things at once: the record keeper for Union Parish cases in the 3rd Judicial District Court, the parish recorder, and, under R.S. 18:422, the parish's chief election officer.
Union Parish was created on March 13, 1839, from a section of Ouachita Parish, and the state says its name honors the union of states that form the country. Farmerville is the seat, and Bernice and Marion are the other towns. The parish covers about 877 square miles of land and more than 28 square miles of water, with 21,112 residents in the 2020 Census base and an estimated 20,617 in July 2024. The parish also borders Arkansas, where it meets Union County and Ashley County.
Every other parish office is in the Louisiana Clerks of Court directory.
Court records in Union Parish
Civil and probate work at the Union clerk includes lawsuits, successions, interdictions, emancipations, and adoptions, which are not public. The clerk's Clerk's Docket takes small claims under $5,000, and a civil fee schedule effective July 20, 2023, is posted on the civil page. Criminal filings arrive from the 3rd Judicial District Attorney's office for Union Parish, and the criminal page posts subpoena request forms.
Online access is split by record type. For civil court documents, images, and case information, the clerk links a Clerk Connect civil inquiry, and a separate Clerk Connect criminal inquiry holds criminal images and index. Both are subscriptions. An older FAQ on the same page still says criminal records stay on COTT E-Search until a conversion targeted for April 2024, but the current links point to Clerk Connect, so treat the FAQ as out of date. The clerk's home page says records, indices, and images are online around the clock.
For filers, civil and criminal e-filing also run through Clerk Connect, and the e-filing page refers to eFileLA as well. The clerk's site lists separate phone lines for the main office and recording (318-368-3055), the civil, juvenile, and non-support desk (318-368-0692), and the minute clerks (318-368-8026). Fax numbers are split too: 318-368-3861 for civil and 318-982-8012 for criminal, per the contact page. The home page footer labels 318-368-0692 as a fax, which conflicts with the contact page, so call before sending anything there.
Expungements are filed with the clerk. The expungement page lists a $550 total paid in separate money orders, plus an additional $100 for a DWI expungement. Louisiana's Code of Criminal Procedure describes expungement as removing a record from public access, not destroying it, and makes the clerk responsible for serving the motion on the district attorney, the State Police bureau, and the arresting agency. Juvenile matters, handled in the temporarily relocated department, are confidential under the Children's Code. The court records and criminal records guides cover the statewide rules.
Land, mortgage, and property records
Union Parish made a clean switch for land records. According to the clerk's online services page, effective October 2, 2023, all recordings (land, conveyance, mortgage, marriage licenses, and e-recordings) are reached through eClerks LA, and Union Parish land and marriage images and indices are viewed there. eClerks LA's Statewide Portal offers free index searching across parishes once you register, while viewing and printing images is sold through a per-parish subscription. That portal is run by the Louisiana Clerks' Remote Access Authority, and state law required every district clerk to support remote access, electronic filing, and recording through it by January 1, 2026.
For e-recording, the clerk's e-recording page says eClerks LA is now its only e-recording vendor, and that CSC, EPN, InteleDoc, and Simplifile are no longer available. Paper recording at the counter follows a posted recording fee schedule, and the office issues mortgage and lien certificates. UCC filings, on both Louisiana and national forms, have their own fee schedule.
The clerk also promotes eClerks Alert, a free eClerks LA service that monitors land records, as a safeguard against property fraud.
Louisiana records an act affecting land in the parish where the land is located (Civil Code article 3346). Union touches four Louisiana parishes, and a tract near one of those lines may also need a search with the Lincoln Parish Clerk of Court in Ruston, the Morehouse Parish Clerk of Court in Bastrop, the Ouachita Parish Clerk of Court, or the Claiborne Parish Clerk of Court. Union was cut from Ouachita in 1839, so a title search reaching back before that year may lead into Ouachita's older books; ask either clerk where those instruments sit. Statewide basics are in the property records guide.
Marriage licenses and family records
Union Parish licenses cost $32.50, payable by cash, check, or credit card, according to the clerk's marriage page as viewed in October 2026, and the office issues duplicate originals. Both parties should appear; an absent party can sign before a notary, and the page notes an exception for members of the armed forces who bring a copy of their military ID. Required items include certified birth certificates, Social Security numbers, and photo identification. Louisiana birth certificates can be bought through the clerk for a state-mandated $34.
Couples can start online. The clerk accepts a pre-application through eClerks LA and asks you to bring the confirmation number to the office, where the documents are checked. Under state law the license is valid for 30 days, and the ceremony may take place only after 24 hours have passed since issuance, unless a judge or authorized justice of the peace waives the delay. The clerk's page adds that two adult witnesses sign at the ceremony, that the original license and the marriage certificate go back to the clerk within 10 days, and that officiants register with the clerk.
Certified copies of a recorded Union Parish marriage come from this clerk, since the state's Vital Records Registry holds marriage records only for Orleans Parish. The office also sells certified birth records in person with ID and death records from January 2012 onward. For a divorce granted in Union Parish, the certified decree comes from the clerk, not from Vital Records. See marriage records and divorce records for the statewide picture.
Courts that serve Union Parish
Union and Lincoln parishes make up the 3rd Judicial District Court under R.S. 13:477. The court's website lists the Union Parish judges' office at 100 East Bayou, Suite 202, in Farmerville, phone 318-368-9734, so the bench and the clerk share a street address. The Lincoln Parish side of the district works out of Ruston.
Union Parish has no city court in the Louisiana Supreme Court's 2025 Guide to Louisiana Courts. The Town of Farmerville's officials page does list a mayor's court magistrate, and the Louisiana Constitution continues mayors' courts and justice of the peace courts, subject to change by law. Union has no special juvenile court, so under the Children's Code the district court has original juvenile jurisdiction here, and the clerk's juvenile department keeps those confidential files.
Appeals from the 3rd JDC go to the Court of Appeal, Second Circuit in Shreveport.
Visiting the Union Parish courthouse
The clerk's contact page gives hours of weekdays, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The main office is in Suite 105 at 100 East Bayou Street; civil, probate, juvenile, protective order, and non-support business goes to 207 East Bayou Street while the temporary move lasts. Call 318-368-0692 first if your errand is on the civil side.
The clerk's site publishes a contact form but no general email address, even though the LCCA directory lists one. The site does not describe parking, entrances, or security screening. Under the Public Records Law, anyone may get a copy of a public record subject to the law's exceptions, a custodian may ask your age and for identification, and you cannot be charged just to examine a record.
Other Union Parish offices
The sheriff enforces the law, runs the parish jail, and collects property taxes outside Orleans. The Louisiana Sheriffs' Association lists Dusty Gates as Union Parish Sheriff. The association lists no website, but unionsheriff.com is titled Union Parish Sheriff's Office and carries the sheriff's biography, and the Town of Farmerville places the office at 710 Holder Road. See Louisiana sheriff's offices.
The Louisiana Assessors' Association lists Lance Futch as assessor at 101 North Main Street in Farmerville, phone 318-368-3232, with a site at unionparishassessor.com. The assessors guide explains assessed value.
The Union Parish Police Jury governs the parish from 303 East Water Street in Farmerville (phone 318-368-3296), according to the town, and its website is uppj.org.