Lafayette Parish Clerk of Court
The Lafayette Parish Clerk of Court is the primary records officer for Lafayette Parish District Court records and land-record access. The 2025 Louisiana Supreme Court guide lists Louis J. Perret as Clerk for Lafayette Parish. The Clerk is tied directly to the 15th Judicial District Court because the District Court is the trial court for civil, criminal, family, succession, and related matters in Lafayette Parish.
The Clerk maintains court-facing records such as civil records, criminal records, family records, traffic records, non-support records, marriage licenses, successions, and certified copies. The same office also handles land-record duties, including mortgage records, conveyance records, UCC filings, and recorded instruments. The Clerk's recording workflow can create an entry number with filing date, hour, and minute before full indexing is complete, so a new document may first appear as a partial index entry.
Lafayette Parish Clerk of Court
Clerk: Louis J. Perret
800 South Buchanan Street
Lafayette, LA 70501
P.O. Box 2009, Lafayette, LA 70502
337-291-6400
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
The Clerk address page lists the physical and mailing contact details for Lafayette Parish record requests.
Those address details matter because many certified-copy and older-record requests still depend on the Clerk's courthouse or mail channels.
What Lafayette Parish Clerk Handles
The Clerk's office is the filing and records point for most Lafayette Parish District Court record needs. It does not replace City Court, the Sheriff's Office, or federal court. It is the right office for District Court civil, criminal, family, succession, divorce, traffic, marriage, land, mortgage, conveyance, UCC, and copy-certification work.
- Civil Records: 337-291-6303 for civil, divorce, succession, and related filings.
- Criminal Records: 337-291-6329 for District Court criminal case records.
- Land Records: 337-291-6300 for conveyance, mortgage, UCC, and recorded instruments.
- Non-Support Records: 337-291-6367 for support-related records.
- Traffic Records: 337-291-6370 for Clerk traffic-record requests.
- Marriage Licenses: 337-291-6335 for license and certified marriage copy questions.
The Clerk office-hours page is the source for posted office timing and holidays.
Hours affect in-person copy requests, marriage-license purchases, and document filing at the courthouse counter.
Request Lafayette Parish Certified Copies
A certified copy is the Clerk's official copy of a filed or recorded document. Courts, banks, title companies, agencies, and employers may reject an uncertified web printout. For court records, identify the case type, docket number if known, party names, document title, and whether a regular or certified copy is needed before contacting the Clerk.
- Identify the record type first: civil, criminal, traffic, family, succession, marriage, land, mortgage, or UCC.
- Gather party names, docket or instrument number, approximate filing date, and document title.
- Choose the channel: ClerkConnect, eSearch, eClerks LA, in person, mail, or department phone.
- State whether regular copies, certified copies, minute entries, or both copies and certification are needed.
- Pay the required copy, page, minute-entry, subscription, or certification-related fees.
- Use the certified copy issued by the Clerk, not a downloaded search result, when an official copy is required.
Lafayette Parish Request Form Fields
The traffic-records request form is the clearest captured Clerk request form inventory in the research. It shows the type of information a requester should be ready to provide for Clerk copy work: requester contact data, defendant or party information, record identifiers, copy type, and payment choice. The same logic helps when calling Civil Records or Criminal Records for other files.
| Field | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Requester name | Yes | Identifies the person making the copy request. |
| Requester email and phone | Yes | Allows Clerk staff to confirm fees or missing record details. |
| Requester address | Yes | Used when copies or follow-up notices must be mailed. |
| Defendant or party name | Yes | Helps locate court records when a docket number is not known. |
| Docket number or caption | Recommended | Speeds up search and reduces mismatches. |
| Document title and copy count | Yes | State regular or certified copies and the number requested. |
| Payment choice | Yes | Payment is needed before some records requests are processed. |
Lafayette Parish Clerk Fees
The Clerk fee schedule includes subscription costs, page charges, minute entries, marriage fees, civil advance deposits, succession costs, and expungement portions. These fees do not all apply to one request. A record search may only need a subscription or page print, while a new civil, divorce, or succession filing uses an advance deposit.
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Court records subscription, 1 day | $10 |
| Court records subscription, 30 days | $25 |
| Court records subscription, 365 days | $300 |
| Court printed page | $1 per page, excluding minute entries |
| Minute entry | $10 |
| Land records 1-day subscription | $20 plus $1/page printing |
| Land records 30-day subscription | $50 plus $1/page printing |
| Land records 365-day subscription | $600 plus $1/page printing |
| Marriage license | $27.50 |
| Certified marriage copy | $5 |
| Divorce advance deposit | $400 |
| Succession advance deposit | $400 |
| Small Succession advance deposit | $300 |
| Standard expungement Clerk portion | $200 |
Lafayette Parish Clerk Forms
The Clerk's forms page collects filing and request forms across several departments. It includes civil forms, death certificate forms, land records copy order materials, marriage forms, mortgage forms, UCC-11 information requests, interpreter requests, assumed business name registration, and other filing-related PDFs. The criminal records page notes that payment is required before criminal records requests are processed.
- Civil forms for District Court filing and civil copy needs.
- Marriage forms for license and certified marriage record work.
- Land records copy order and mortgage forms for recorded instruments.
- UCC-11 information request forms for UCC record searches.
- Interpreter request forms for court access needs.
The Clerk forms page is the source for current Lafayette Parish filing forms and request documents.
Using the current Clerk form reduces delays caused by missing payment, signature, or record-identification fields.
Lafayette Parish Online and Mail Access
The Clerk's online access paths are split by record type. ClerkConnect is the subscription path for court records, including civil, criminal, traffic, and family records. The Clerk's materials say court subscriptions include unsealed civil and probate matters plus criminal and traffic details such as offense date, charge filed, case history, service, minutes, and disposition. Lafayette Clerk eSearch is the land-record login, with land images available beginning January 1935 according to the Clerk online-records page. eClerks LA supports free index search and alerts for categories identified by the Clerk.
In-person record work goes to the Clerk at 800 South Buchanan Street. Mail requests go to Clerk of Court, P.O. Box 2009, Lafayette, LA 70502. If an online search does not return the needed record, use the department phone tied to the file type. Louisiana public-records requests can also be made to the custodian when a normal copy channel does not fit, but nonpublic material may be separated or withheld and reasonable copy or electronic fees may apply.
Note: Lafayette Parish has one elected Clerk of Court for these records, not a separate county clerk and district clerk split.