Search Jessamine County Marriage Records

Jessamine County Marriage Licenses

Marriage licenses in Jessamine County are handled by the separately elected Jessamine County Clerk, not the Circuit Court Clerk. The official county and clerk pages identify Johnny Collier as County Clerk. The main Nicholasville office is at 101 N Main St., Nicholasville, KY 40356, with phone 859-885-4161. The Wilmore office is at 210 S Lexington Ave., Wilmore, KY 40390, with phone 859-858-4411 ext. 108. The clerk site lists Nicholasville hours as Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Wilmore hours as Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

County source material says the local "How Do I?" page routes marriage-license questions to the County Clerk. Kentucky law also matters after the license is issued: KRS 402.105 states that a Kentucky marriage license is valid for 30 days including the date issued. The research did not locate an official Jessamine County marriage-license fee, so the page should not state a dollar amount for the license itself. Call the clerk before applying if payment method or same-day processing is important.

The Jessamine County Clerk contact page shows the local offices used for license and records questions.

That office split is the key point for Jessamine County marriage records: licenses and marriage indexes go to the County Clerk, while divorce case records go to the Circuit Court Clerk.

Apply for Jessamine County Marriage Records

A marriage license application should be treated as a County Clerk transaction. The research file did not capture a full local application screen or PDF field list, but the official sources do identify the County Clerk as the licensing office and show that clerk forms requiring original signatures must be mailed or brought in person, not emailed or faxed. Because marriage-license rules can involve identity, age, prior marital status, and signature requirements, applicants should confirm current required documents directly with the County Clerk before coming to the counter.

1. Contact the Jessamine County Clerk at 859-885-4161 or use the Nicholasville or Wilmore office listed by the official clerk site.
2. Ask what identification, payment form, and prior-marriage information the clerk needs for the license application.
3. Appear at the County Clerk office as instructed so both applicants can complete the license process.
4. Use the license within the Kentucky 30-day validity period set by KRS 402.105.
5. After the marriage is returned and recorded, request certified copies or search the marriage index through the clerk's records channels.

Jessamine Marriage Application Fields

The official research did not produce a complete Jessamine marriage-license application form. The safest field inventory is therefore limited to the details that a clerk can use to find or process a marriage record, plus the application items normally verified at the counter. Do not treat this table as a substitute for the County Clerk's current application.

Note: The exact Jessamine County marriage-license fee was not located in the official source set.

Look Up Jessamine County Marriage Records

Jessamine County has strong older marriage-record access through the County Clerk. The clerk recordings page says marriage records are indexed and scanned back to 1798, and eCCLIX provides online access to County Clerk indexed records. The same research notes that all public records and indexes are available for in-office viewing free of charge, while online eCCLIX access requires an account and fees for continued public service.

The Jessamine County Clerk recordings page documents the marriage-index coverage and in-office viewing route.

That record depth makes the County Clerk the better starting point for Jessamine County marriage records before June 1958 and for local index research.

The County Clerk forms page also links open-records policy material and request-to-inspect-public-records forms.

Those forms matter when a marriage-record request cannot be handled by a simple in-office index search or eCCLIX lookup.

Find Jessamine County Divorce Records

Divorce is not a County Clerk license record. Divorce case files are court records handled through Circuit or Family Court and the Jessamine Circuit Court Clerk. Kentucky Court of Justice materials say Family Court hears dissolution of marriage, support, property distribution, child support, visitation, paternity, adoption, domestic violence, dependency, neglect, abuse, and termination of parental rights. In Jessamine County, those files route through the state court system at the Jessamine County Court Complex.

For divorce case files, contact the Circuit Court Clerk, Doug Fain, at 107 N. Main St., Nicholasville, KY 40356. Circuit phone numbers listed by the Kentucky Court of Justice are 859-885-4531 and 859-887-1005. Public access can include case number, parties, filing date, docket entries, orders, decree information, and disposition where not restricted. Child-related, adoption, domestic violence, protected-address, and sealed material may be restricted.

A divorce decree and a divorce certificate are not the same item. The decree is a court order from the case file. The certificate is a vital-record certificate issued by the state for qualifying dates.

Kentucky Marriage Divorce Certificates

The Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics marriage and divorce page says the state holds certified marriage and divorce certificates from June 1958 to the present. That state route is useful when a person needs a vital certificate rather than the full Jessamine County court file or County Clerk index. For divorce records before June 1958, the research says OVS directs users to call the circuit court clerk in the county where the decree was granted.

The broader Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics page is the state-level source for certified vital records.

Use that state certificate path for modern vital certificates, then use the Jessamine County Clerk or Circuit Court Clerk when the needed record is local, older, or part of a case file.

Jessamine Marriage Divorce Fees

Only fees found in the official research should be stated. The research did not locate a Jessamine marriage-license fee, divorce filing fee, or certified decree copy fee. County Clerk recording fees do list will and land-record charges, but those are not marriage-license fees. For marriage or divorce record requests, ask the correct office for the current copy, certification, filing, and payment rules before mailing a request or visiting the counter.