1. What is the cost to file documents in real property records?
2. Where do you get legal forms?
3. Can you notarize documents?
4. Can I file a deed at a branch location?
5. Where are you located?
6. What is your mailing address?
7. What is the cost to obtain a copy of a document that is on record?
8. What type of payment?
9. How do you get an Abstract of Judgment?
10. How do you file a lien?
11. How do you transfer property?
12. What is the cost to file a UCC-1 and UCC-3?

        $5.00 First page

        $4.00 Each additional page

        $5.00 Archival fee

        $5.00 Preservation fee

        $1.00 Courthouse security fee

Provided it complies with Local Government Code 191.007 (a)

through (k) and Property Code 11.003 and 52.0041.

Q2: Where do you get legal forms?
A: At a stationary or office supply store that carries legal forms.

Q3: Can you notarize documents?
A: No

Q4: Can I file a deed at a branch location?
A: No. A release of lien can be accepted at our branch location and transported to the downtown office within 5 work days.

Q5: Where are you located?
A: Harris County Civil Courthouse located in downtown Houston, at the corner of Caroline and Congress streets.

Harris County Civil Courthouse

201 Caroline ,  3rd Floor

Houston, Tx 77002

Q6:What is your mailing address?
A: Mailing address:

Beverly Kaufman

Harris County Clerk

P.O. Box 1525

Houston, Tx. 77251-1525

Q7: What is the cost to obtain a copy of a document that is on record?
A: Non-Certified copy - $1.00 per page

            Certified copy ----- $5.00 certification +

                                            $1.00 per page

Q8: What type of payment?
A: Personal checks are not accepted through the mail. Money orders or cashier's checks made payable to Beverly Kaufman, Harris County Clerk should be sent through the mail. Personal checks are accepted when brought into the office with proper identification and the check is drawn on a local bank. Credit cards are also anoth valid form of payment.

Q9: How do you get an Abstract of Judgment?
A: Request the Abstract of Judgment from the court where the judgment was filed and then record it in the Real Property Records. The Abstract of Judgment must include the plantiff's mailing address. See Property Code 52.0041.

Q10: How do you file a lien?
A: Check with your attorney. After the lien has been prepared, then it must be filed in the Real Property Records.

Q11: How do you transfer property?
A: Check with your attorney or title company to have a new deed prepared. Then the deed must be filed in the Real Property Records. The grantee's mailing address should be shown on the deed. See Property Code 11.003.

Q12:What is the cost to file a UCC-1 and UCC-3?
A: The fee for filing UCCs in the real property records has been changed to the recording fees under Local Government Code 118.011(a)(2) and (b)(2), effective July 1, 2001.

As per the Texas Business and Commerce Code, Section 9.501, effective July 1, 2001 Financing Statements (UCC) will no longer be filed in the County Clerk's UCC Records. They will need to be filed with the Secretary of State's office. This does not affect Financing Statements file in the County Clerk's Real Estate Records.