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Due to Statutory Requirements Upset Bid Amounts CANNOT BE PROVIDED over the telephone or by email.  It is your responsibility to:

1. Determine the amount of the upset bid

2. Make payment to the Clerk of Superior Court by Cash, Certified Check or Money Order only.)

3. Pay to the Clerk’s cashier within normal business hours when the Clerk’s Office is open within the 10 day upset bid period the amount of the upset bid. [see Location and Hours above]

 

 

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                           “Helping The Courts Serve The People”

                           Linda Priest, Clerk of Court

 

 

Clerk of Superior Court

Special Proceedings Division

Cumberland County Courthouse [Map]

First Floor – Office 107

(910) 475-3007

(Business Hours)

 

The Clerk of Superior Court has statutory jurisdiction to hear and determine Special Proceedings matters.

 

Petitions to commence a special proceedings action are filed in the Special Proceedings Division. 

 

Examples of such proceedings include:

·          Foreclosures

·          Adoptions

·          Legitimization/Proof Of Birth

·          Name Change

·          Incompetency

·          Guardianship Proceedings

 

·          Motor Vehicle Liens

·          Disputed Monies

·          Partitioning of Property

·          Boundary Line Disputes

·          Condemnation of Land for Public Use

Exception: Judicial Foreclosures and Tax Foreclosures are filed in the Civil Division.

 

 

Calendaring a Special Proceedings

To obtain your hearing date, time and place contact the Special Proceeding’s Division.  It is your responsibility to provide notice of hearing as well as properly notice motions for continuance in accordance with the Rules of Civil Procedure.

 

The Hearing

All special proceedings matters are heard by the Clerk of Superior Court.  It is your responsibility to determine all forms and documents have been properly prepared, served if required, and filed with the Special Proceedings Division prior to the hearing. The Clerk may in her discretion, require additional information be provided in writing, by affidavit, certified records, or under oath.  If you are required by the Clerk to appear at the hearing you should come prepared to present evidence at this hearing. If you fail to appear at the hearing, your matter maybe dismissed.

 

Special Proceedings staff will assist you with filing and answering procedural questions.  However as with all judicial proceedings, the Clerk's Office is expressly forbidden by law from offering any legal advice and it is strongly recommended you seek competent legal counsel to help you.