The Clermont County Common Pleas Clerk of Courts is the elected official responsible for filing and maintaining every court document for all past and pending cases in the Clermont County Common Pleas Court system, as well as issuing warrants, summons and executing bonds, for issuing motor vehicle and watercraft titles, for issuing witness vouchers, and accepting passport applications. The Clerk is also responsible for collecting and securing all filing fees, court costs, fines, restitution, and monies deposited with the Court on a judge's order. 

Every case starts with documents filed with the Clerk, whether it is a civil case (a complaint, a petition, or an administrative appeal) or a criminal case (an indictment, a bill of information, or a bindover from Municipal Court). Once a case is started, the Clerk's Office handles service of court documents, accepts the filing of motions, legal memoranda, affidavits, notices, and deposition transcripts, and processes every legal paper so it is time-stamped, scanned as a computer image, preserved in the official court record, and brought to the judge's attention for legal action.