Circuit Clerk's Office
Court: Case Types
Case Code Letter and Category Outline
- Civil and Juvenile
- (AD) Adoption
- (AR) Arbitration {Mandatory Arbitration}
- (CC) Contempt of Court
- (CF) Felony
- (CH) Chancery
- Construction of inter vivos trust
- Construction of testamentary trust (after P case has been disposed)
- Foreclosure of security interest in personal property
- Injunction (except in Tax and Dissolution cases)
- Mechanic’s lien foreclosure
- Partition
- Partnership dissolution
- Quiet title
- Real estate mortgage foreclosure
- Recision of contract
- Specific performance
- Structured settlement, original action to assign
- Trust administration
- (CM) Misdemeanor
- (CV) Conservation Violation
- (D) Dissolution
- Dissolution
- Invalidity
- Legal separation
- (DT) Driving Under the influence
- (ED) Eminent Domain
- (F) Family
- Civil actions to compel support
- Emancipation of minor
- Notice to putative father under the Adoption Act (750 ILCS 50/12a) and Juvenile Court Act (705 ILCS 405 (2-30, 3-31, 4-28 and 5-32))
- Parentage
- Petition for confidential intermediary
- Petition for custody
- Petition for order to issue marriage license
- Registration of foreign support order
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- (J) Juvenile
- (JA) Juvenile Abuse and Neglect
- (JD) Juvenile Delinquent
- (L) Law: damages over $50,000
- Arbitration and award
- Contract - money damages
- Confession of judgment
- Detinue
- Distress for rent
- Ejectment
- Forcible Entry and Detainer
- Replevin
- Statutory action by a state or political subdivision to recover support or contribution
- Tort - money damages
- Trover
- (LM) Law: damage $50,000 or over $5,000 (under $5,000 is SC)
- Arbitration and award
- Contract - money damages over $5,000
- Confession of judgment
- Detinue
- Distress for rent
- Ejectment
- Forcible Entry and Detainer
- Replevin
- Statutory action by a state or political subdivision to recover support or contribution
- Tort - money damages over $5,000
- Trover
- (MC) Municipal corporation
- Petition for the creation of a drainage district
- Petition to change form of government
- Petition to dissolve municipal corporation
- Petition to organize municipal corporation
- Other routine matters relating to municipal corporations and not listed under another category
- (MH) Mental Health
- Petition for discharge
- Petition for hospitalization
- Petition for restoration
- Petition to administer treatment
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- (MR) Miscellaneous Remedy
- Abatement of Nuisance
- Application for order authorizing eavesdropping or electronic criminal surveillance
- Attachment (original action)
- Burnt records
- Certiorari
- Change of name
- Corporation dissolution
- Declaratory judgment
- Demolition
- Eavesdropping
- Election contest
- Escheat
- Extradition
- Forfeiture of seized property
- Habeas corpus (civil or criminal)
- Lost goods or money
- Mandamus
- Ne exeat (original action)
- Petition for discovery or to depose
- Prohibition
- Quo warranto
- Rendition
- Review of administrative proceedings (other than tax commission)
- Search Warrant (complaint for search warrant not related to pending case)
- Sexually violent person commitment proceeding
- (OP) Order of Protection
- (OV) Ordinance Violation
- (P) Probate
- Construction of testamentary trust (during pendency of P case)
- Construction of will
- Estates of decedents
- Guardianship of person and/or estate
- Will contest
- (SC) Small Claim
- Contract - money damages $5,000 or less
- Tax collection - $5,000 or less
- Tort - money damages $5,000 or less
- (TR) Traffic Violation
- (TX) Tax
- Annual tax sale
- Drainage assessment
- Foreclosure of lien for special assessment
- Petition for tax deed
- Retailer's occupation tax
- Sale in error
- Scavenger tax sale
- Special assessment
- Suit to restrain collection of special assessment or to change special assessment
- Tax commission, review of decision
- Tax foreclosure
- Tax injunction
- Tax objection
- Tax refund (petition for)
- Criminal , DUI, Traffic, Ordinance, Conservation
- (CC) Contempt of Court
- (CF) Felony
- (CM) Misdemeanor
- (CV) Conservation Violation
- (DT) Driving Under the Influence
- (OV) Ordinance Violation
- (TR) Traffic Violation
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