Lincoln County Probate/Magistrate COurts

Welcome to the Probate/Magistrate's Court website. It has been a long time in the making, but we wanted it to be as helpful and user-friendly as possible. The design of this website is intended to allow you to move around freely within it and to offer you easy access to related sites and other useful information.

Court personnel are available to help you as well, but there are legal and practical limits to what we can do. We hope that this site will be an informative alternative resource for some of your legal needs.

The mission of the Lincoln County Probate/Magistrate's Court is to provide assistance to the general public, police agencies, and attorneys in the prosecution of criminal and civil cases in Lincoln County.

The Probate/Magistrate office handles these well known matters:

•Marriage Licenses

•Birth and Death Certificates

•Firearms Licenses

•Fireworks Display Applications & Licenses

• Traffic Violations

•Probate of Wills

•Administration of Estates

•Year Support Applications

•Guardianship of Incapacitated Adults

•Temporary Guardianship of Minors

•Criminal Warrants

•Search Warrants

•Peace Warrants

•Revocation of Letters in Estates and Guardianships

•Inpatient Evaluation Orders in Mental, Drug, and Alcohol Cases

•Review of Accounting, Appraisals,
Inventories, Where required for
Estates

•County Ordinance Violations

•Code Enforcement Violations

•First Appearance Bond Hearings

•Preliminary Hearings

•Extradition Hearings

•Deposit Account Fraud Citations
(Bad Check Division)

•Small Claims ($15,000 limit)

•Dispossessory Warrants

•Landlord & Tenant Procedures

•Personal Property Foreclosure

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Lincoln County Government - PO Box 340 - 210 Humphrey Street - Lincolnton, Georgia 30817 - 706-359-4444