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Catahoula Parish Clerk of Court

Larisa Holley Field is the Catahoula Parish Clerk of Court. Louisiana uses a unified parish Clerk of Court structure for district-court filings and many public-record services, so this office is the main local contact for civil, criminal, probate or succession, marriage, mortgage, conveyance, election-related clerk duties, and certified-copy questions. The Clerk's website says the office is continuously updating and upgrading to better serve the public and invites people who need assistance to contact the office.

The Clerk is located in the Catahoula Parish Courthouse, Room 101. The same courthouse listing places the District Court judges, Sheriff's Department, District Attorney, Assessor, Police Jury, Registrar, and other parish offices in the Bushley Street building, which makes the Clerk a practical first stop for court-file and copy questions. For prosecution, traffic diversion, jail custody, or public defender questions, other offices may be involved, but the Clerk remains the filing and record-copy office for the district-court file.

Catahoula Parish Clerk Services

The Clerk's official pages show a broad service mix. The office is not limited to court copies. It connects users to district-court filings, conveyance and mortgage records, marriage-license forms, civil filings, criminal post-conviction and expungement packets, eClerksLA electronic access terms, election resources, and UCC links. For court-record users, the most important facts are the room number, phone, email, office hours, official PDF form list, and electronic access link.

• District-court filings and record copies.
• Conveyance, mortgage, mortgage certificate, cancellation, and release records.
• Marriage license requirements, application, and clergy affidavit forms.
• Civil filing, eviction, pauper, prisoner civil litigation, and suit affidavit forms.
• Criminal post-conviction relief and expungement instructions or forms.
• Election links, historical election results, parish manual links, and UCC filing resources.

The Clerk elections page was one of the assigned source images for this office profile.

Election links show the Clerk's broader parish role, but election records should not be confused with court case records or certified court copies.

Request Catahoula Parish Certified Copies

Certified copies are used when a document must carry official proof from the record office. In Catahoula Parish, certified copy questions should go to the Clerk when the document is a district-court filing, recorded instrument, marriage record, succession judgment, conveyance item, mortgage record, or other Clerk-held record. La. R.S. 44:103 supports certified copies of recorded instruments on proper request and gives those certified copies the same faith and credit as the recorded instrument.

1. Identify the record type, such as civil case, divorce judgment, succession order, marriage record, conveyance, mortgage, or cancellation.
2. Gather search details, including party names, case number or instrument reference if known, filing year, and the exact document title.
3. Contact the Clerk by phone, email, mail, or in person to confirm whether the record is public, restricted, redacted, or available only to a party.
4. Ask for the current copy cost, certification cost, payment method, and mailing or pickup options before sending money.
5. Request a certified copy if the document will be used for court, banking, title, land, school, immigration, benefit, or other official purposes.

A plain copy may be enough for personal review. A certified copy is the safer request when another agency or institution will rely on the document.

Catahoula Parish Request Fields

The research did not locate a dedicated public records request form for all Clerk records. It did capture the Clerk contact web form and the eClerksLA portal limitation. Because many Clerk services are handled through PDF packets or direct contact, a strong request should include the details the Clerk needs to locate the file and quote copy costs. Do not invent case data. If the case number is unknown, use names and dates.

Catahoula Parish Clerk Fee Sources

The Clerk publishes a forms and fees page with source PDFs rather than a single extracted fee table in the research. The fee schedule below names the official source item and avoids dollar amounts that were not captured. This matters because filing and copy costs can change, and costs may depend on page count, certification, recording type, civil filing type, or whether the request involves an older index search.

Catahoula Parish Clerk Forms

The official Clerk fees and forms page is the safest source for current PDFs. The forms are organized by category, and many are packet-style documents. A requester should cite the exact form title when calling or emailing the office. That avoids confusion between a court filing, a land-record filing, a marriage license, and a criminal post-conviction or expungement packet.

• Conveyance and mortgage PDFs for recordings, immobilization, deimmobilization, mortgage certificates, and cancellations.
• Assumed Name Certificate for local business or name filings.
• Marriage License Requirements, Application for Marriage License, and Clergy Affidavit.
• Civil Filing Fees, Civil Eviction, pauper forms, and Louisiana Civil Case Reporting Form.
• Uniform Application for Post-Conviction Relief and Expungement Instructions & Forms.

The Louisiana Secretary of State UCC filing page is another assigned source linked from the Clerk's resources.

That state filing channel is useful for UCC work, but it is separate from Catahoula Parish court case search and certified court-copy requests.

Catahoula Parish Clerk Online Access

The Clerk links to eClerksLA and a Catahoula eClerks terms of use PDF. The portal itself is dynamic, and the research capture found a browser warning recommending current Chrome, Edge, or Firefox. Public search fields were not fully exposed in static capture, so electronic access should be described as a Clerk-approved channel rather than a guarantee that every record type can be searched without account prompts, payment, or office contact.

Direct access remains important. The Clerk accepts in-person contact in Room 101, mail to P.O. Box 654, phone at 318-744-5497, fax at 318-744-5488, and email at catahoulaclerk13@gmail.com. If eClerksLA does not show the needed case, instrument, succession, or marriage record, use those direct channels and provide enough detail for staff to locate the record.

The Seventh Judicial District Attorney child-support page was assigned as a source image for the Clerk page because the courthouse ecosystem includes court-related services outside the Clerk counter.

DA child-support and prosecution services can affect court files, but Clerk copy requests should still be routed through the Clerk when the document is part of the court record.

Catahoula Parish Elections and UCC

The Clerk's election page links to Geaux Vote, historical election results, and a parish manual. Those links confirm a broader Clerk role in local public administration, but election resources are not court records. A person looking for ballots, voter information, or election results should follow the election links rather than searching court files.

UCC filings are similar in that the Clerk site points users to a separate state channel. The Clerk links to the Louisiana Secretary of State UCC online filing page and a Louisiana UCC filing fee PDF. UCC filing is not a Catahoula Parish case search. For a lawsuit, judgment, succession, divorce, or other district-court filing, use the Clerk and District Court channels instead.

Note: The Clerk page blends court, land, marriage, election, and state UCC resources, so identify the record type before choosing a channel.