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
  - Condemnation
- (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