Lookup Phillips County Court Dockets

Phillips County Court Dockets

A court docket is a calendar and case-event record. For Phillips County court dockets, it can show when a case is scheduled, which court is handling the event, the case number, the party or attorney filter used to find the case, and the kind of matter being heard. It is not the same as the full case file. A docket can point to a hearing or case event, while a complete court record may include the complaint, information, motion, order, judgment, ticket, disposition, sentence order, or other filed document.

Phillips County is served by the Phillips Combined Court in Holyoke, which houses both district-court and county-court work. District court handles felonies, larger civil cases, domestic relations, juvenile matters, probate jurisdiction, and appeals from county court. County court handles misdemeanors, traffic infractions, small claims, limited civil cases, protection orders, and felony complaints before transfer. That combined court structure is why a single Phillips County docket search may touch more than one case type.

Find Phillips County Court Dockets Online

The main free search channel is the Colorado Judicial Branch docket search. The research notes that the docket page requires a date plus at least one additional filter. For Phillips County court dockets, the most useful filters are Phillips County, the 13th Judicial District, case number, party name, attorney name, case type, or location. A case number is best when known, but name and county filters can work when the case number is missing.

1. Open the statewide docket search and choose the date tied to the hearing or search window.
2. Add Phillips County or the 13th Judicial District so the search does not return unrelated Colorado courts.
3. Enter a case number, party name, attorney name, case type, or location filter when known.
4. Review the results for the case number, event type, hearing date, court location, and courtroom details that are shown.
5. Contact Phillips Combined Court if the docket is missing, unclear, sealed, changed, or tied to a record copy request.

Phillips County Docket Search Fields

The docket fields matter because Colorado's docket page is not a broad name-only search. It expects the user to narrow by date and at least one more point of information. That rule reduces false matches in a multi-county judicial district. It also helps a rural Phillips County user avoid confusing local Holyoke court matters with cases from Logan, Kit Carson, Morgan, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma, or another Colorado county.

Phillips County Docket Sources

Phillips County court dockets come from the Colorado Judicial Branch court system, not from the Phillips County Clerk and Recorder. That distinction is important. The Clerk and Recorder handles marriage licenses, recorded documents, elections, motor vehicle services, and county recorder records. Court dockets, court case files, criminal dispositions, traffic tickets, probate filings, and divorce decrees are court records held by the Clerk of Court at Phillips Combined Court.

Dockets vs Phillips County Case Files

A docket can help a person plan for court or verify that a case is active, but it should not be treated as the full court record. The full case file may hold documents that are never shown in the public docket result. For example, a criminal docket may list an arraignment, plea, disposition, or sentence hearing, while the filed complaint, disposition/sentence order, and bond order must be requested as court documents. A domestic docket may show events, but the divorce decree or parenting plan requires a record/document request.

Read Phillips County Docket Entries

Common docket terms are short. A hearing entry usually means the court has set time for a judge, parties, counsel, or witnesses. A motion is a request for the judge to take action. A minute order is a short entry recording what happened at a hearing. A disposition is the current or final outcome. A register of actions, often shortened to ROA, is a chronological summary of case events, charges, sentences, minute orders, and filings.

Docket

A list of scheduled court matters or case events.

Register of Actions

A chronological case summary from the court record system.

Minute Order

A short court entry noting what happened at a hearing.

Disposition

The current or final outcome of a claim, charge, or case.

Setting

A hearing or court date placed on the court calendar.

Phillips County Docket Limits

Phillips County Combined Court appearances are in person unless a court order says otherwise. That makes docket checks useful before travel, but the docket is not the final authority on every courtroom issue. A hearing can be continued, a docket can be sealed, a party may have a virtual courtroom order, or a clerk may need to confirm a last-minute change. Call Phillips Combined Court at 970-762-7010 for a local docket question that affects attendance.

Colorado court sources also publish fraud alerts. The Phillips County court page has warned that Colorado courts do not demand payment by phone for missed jury service, and the research notes a statewide/local alert about fraudulent court appearance text messages. Do not use a payment link from an unsolicited message to resolve a docket problem. Use the official Colorado Judicial Online Payment System for eligible court payments and the official court phone for questions.

Dockets can also be thin when the event involves a protected case type. Juvenile matters, sealed cases, suppressed records, and some protected domestic or mental health material may not show normal public detail. If a docket result appears to skip an expected event, that does not always mean no case exists. It may mean the event is restricted, the search filters are too broad or too narrow, the hearing moved, or the record must be reviewed by the clerk before public release.

Get Phillips County Docket Documents

If a docket entry points to a document, the next step is usually a court record request. The Judicial Branch record/document request form lets users enter contact data, address fields, case number, case type, filing year, Phillips County as the location, date of birth if known, party names, identifying details, and requested document types. The form's document choices include complaint/information, disposition/sentence order, ticket, protection order, civil judgments, divorce decree, probate letters, will, trust, application, petition, closing, claims, and Register of Action.

For Phillips County court dockets that turn into copy requests, fees are set under the Judicial Branch schedule in the research file: $0.25 per page, $20 per certified or exemplified document, $5 for a name search, $25 for a transcript of judgment, $20 for a certificate of satisfaction, actual cost for off-site file retrieval, and research or redaction time charged after the first hour. Fee waivers may apply where CJD 06-01 or C.R.S. 13-32-104(1)(a) requires it.

A docket user should include enough detail for the clerk to identify the right case. Good request details include the case number, party names, date of birth for the primary party if known, filing year, case type, hearing date, and the exact document needed. For Phillips County, the county/location field should say Phillips County unless the filing county is truly unknown. That helps the request avoid being routed as a general Colorado search.