While the Milwaukee County Courthouse remains closed many important services, including Marriage Licenses and Child Support Services, are being restored.
“This shows the strong dedication and resourcefulness of County Department heads, employees and other elected officials who are finding ways to get services restored any way possible,” Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele said.
The following services are available, please note new locations:
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Courts
· Criminal cases
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· Restraining orders and injunctions
· Civil and criminal filings
· Criminal court records
· Individuals wanting to file or get information on courtroom reassignment and any other information on their cases should go to room 117 of the Safety Building.
· Intake Court and Preliminary Hearing Court are in session in the Criminal Justice Facility.
· Electronic filing remains available through the wicourts.gov website.
County Clerk
· Wedding licenses will be available starting at 9 a.m. Thursday, July 11th in room 105 at the City Campus building (2711 W. Wells St.)
Register of Deeds
· The Register of Deeds department is recording the majority of real estate documents that are submitted. These electronically submitted documents (eDocs) are being processed remotely.
· Register of Deeds is unable to sell vital records copies but records of birth and death events that occurred within the Cities of Milwaukee and West Allis can be obtained from the health departments of those cities. All other county birth, death and marriage records can be obtained from the state vital records office in Madison.
Department of Family Care
· The Department of Family Care has moved their entire operations off-site and are serving all of their 8000 clients of older adults, and people with intellectual and physical disabilities.
Child Support Services
· Milwaukee County Child Support Services will run a satellite office starting Thursday July 11th from 9am – 3:30 p.m. at the Marcia P. Coggs Building (1220 W. Vliet Street).
· Limited services will be available, but Child Support staff will be on site to meet with participants with child support concerns, and accept payments.
· Income withholding notices will still be processed by Milwaukee County staff temporarily working from the Waukesha County Courthouse.
· The Wisconsin State Child Support trust fund remains operational, and is processing and crediting payments at this time.
