Bullitt County Probate Records Overview
Probate in Bullitt County is listed on the local District Civil/Probate clerk page. The record categories include estates after death, guardianships, name changes, settlements of minors, Casey's Law matters, mental-health proceedings, disability proceedings, mental inquest warrants, and adult guardianship starts. The court facility for the filing side is the Bullitt County Judicial Center, 250 Frank E. Simon Ave., P.O. Box 746, Shepherdsville, KY 40165. The Circuit Court Clerk is Paulita A. Keith, and the Kentucky Court of Justice lists office phones 502-543-7104, 502-955-7764, 502-543-2244, and 502-955-7512.
The Bullitt Circuit Court Clerk District Civil/Probate page is the local routing source for probate-related filings. It also links the official Kentucky probate guide, the Small Claims Handbook, and the Your Day in Court handbook. Probate is not a County Clerk land-record search, although the County Clerk may record some related documents such as wills or orders after the court process requires recording.
Bullitt County District Court Probate Division
Bullitt County Judicial Center
250 Frank E. Simon Ave.
P.O. Box 746
Shepherdsville, KY 40165
502-543-7104
Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Bullitt County Attorney
300 S. Buckman St., P.O. Box 1446
Shepherdsville, KY 40165
502-543-1505
Start point for Casey's Law, mental-health, disability, and adult guardianship matters listed by the clerk.
Bullitt County Probate Terms
Probate records use short legal terms that can hide the practical meaning of the file. In Bullitt County, the same District Civil/Probate channel may hold a routine estate and a sensitive guardianship. These definitions help separate the record types before contacting the clerk.
- Testator
- A person who made a will before death.
- Executor
- The person named to carry out a will after court appointment.
- Intestate
- Dying without a valid will, so estate handling follows Kentucky law and court appointment.
- Guardianship
- A court appointment to make decisions for a minor or an incapacitated adult.
- Conservatorship
- A protective appointment focused on property or financial affairs, often tied to disability or capacity findings.
Search Bullitt County Probate Records
Public probate case information may be available through KYeCourts Public Court Records, which provides free guest access to public case information after a CAPTCHA gate. The visible guest page does not show post-CAPTCHA fields in the captured research, so the public search should be described as a case-information route rather than a guaranteed document-image system. Certified probate copies and files not visible online should be requested from the Circuit Court Clerk.
- Identify whether the matter is an estate, will, guardianship, name change, minor settlement, Casey's Law, disability, or mental-health filing.
- Use KYeCourts for public case status when the matter is not restricted.
- Contact the Circuit Court Clerk at the Judicial Center for copies, certification, or courthouse-only probate file access.
- For adult guardianship, mental inquest warrants, Casey's Law, or disability matters, contact the County Attorney first as the local clerk page directs.
- Use the statewide probate guide and KCOJ legal forms library for procedure and forms.
Note: Medical, disability, juvenile, and guardianship details may be withheld even when a docket entry confirms that a case exists.
When a Bullitt County probate file is needed for banking, title work, benefits, or estate administration, ask the clerk whether a plain copy is enough or whether certification is required. The online case entry may help locate the file, but it does not replace a certified order, appointment, or recorded probate document when another agency requires proof.
Bullitt County Probate-Adjacent Programs
The probate research also surfaced statewide specialty-court and treatment resources that may touch court records when a filing involves treatment, disability, or criminal case supervision. The Kentucky Department of Specialty Courts page describes statewide programs, but no official Bullitt-specific adult drug court, veterans treatment court, or mental health court program page was located in the captured sources.
The Kentucky specialty-courts source is represented in the assigned manifest image.
This image supports the distinction between statewide program information and the local District Court Probate Division file path.
The Kentucky Drug Court page is also assigned in the manifest.
Drug treatment records should not be treated as routine public probate documents unless the court record itself is open.
Bullitt County Probate Filing Fees
The research did not capture an official Bullitt-specific probate filing fee schedule. It did capture a notice on KYeCourts that civil filing fees for Circuit and District Courts increase July 1, 2026 under Supreme Court Orders 2026-15 and 2026-18. It also captured County Clerk recording fees for documents that may be recorded after a probate event, such as a will recording, renunciation, name-change order, or guardianship order.
| Item | Amount | Source note |
|---|---|---|
| Probate case filing | Not located in captured official text | Confirm with Circuit Court Clerk or current KCOJ fee schedule |
| Court certified probate copy | Not located in captured official text | Confirm with Circuit Court Clerk |
| County Clerk will recording | $47 | County Clerk recording fee schedule |
| Renunciation or disclaimer of will | $46 | County Clerk recording fee schedule |
| Name change order recording | $43 | County Clerk recording fee schedule |
| Guardianship order recording | $46 | County Clerk recording fee schedule |
What Bullitt County Probate Records Show
An ordinary estate file may show the petition, will, order admitting will, appointment of a personal representative, bond, inventory, notice to creditors, settlements or accountings, distribution papers, and closing orders. A guardianship file may show appointment papers, medical or capacity evidence, reports, bonds, and court orders. Name-change and minor-settlement files may be shorter, but certified copies may still be needed for later legal, school, banking, or identity updates.
| Record type | Likely file content | Access concern |
|---|---|---|
| Estate after death | Petition, will, appointment, inventory, settlement | Often public unless sealed or redacted |
| Guardianship | Petition, capacity proof, appointment, reports | Medical and capacity details may be restricted |
| Minor settlement | Petition, settlement terms, approval order | Minor identity and financial facts may be limited |
| Mental inquest warrant | Health and safety filings | Do not treat as a criminal warrant search |
Restricted Bullitt County Probate Records
Kentucky public access rules do not make every probate-adjacent filing open in full. KRS 61.878 includes privacy and statutory-confidential exemptions. Juvenile rules such as KRS 610.320 and KRS 610.340 restrict juvenile records. Bullitt District Civil/Probate matters involving mental health, disability, adult guardianship, or minor settlements may contain medical, capacity, financial, or child-related details that are not handled like a routine estate inventory.
The Kentucky Mental Health Court page is one of the assigned sources for treatment-related court context.
This visual reinforces why mental-health records require caution before assuming full public access.
The manifest also assigns the Kentucky Veterans Treatment Court page.
Veterans treatment materials are statewide program context only; no Bullitt-specific probate filing should be inferred from that page.