Find Pendleton County Court Dates

The Pendleton County Court Calendar

Each Pendleton County court keeps its own docket. The official county court page gives Circuit, Family, and Magistrate contacts. But no combined daily trial calendar exists there. Circuit Court takes general-jurisdiction matters. Family Court handles domestic cases. Magistrate Court covers traffic, misdemeanors, small civil matters, felony preliminary proceedings, warrants, bail, and emergency protective matters.

So the useful calendar is the event record for the correct case. Circuit and Family records run through WVPASS and the Circuit Clerk. Magistrate schedules run through MCR Search and the Magistrate Clerk. A displayed event helps you plan. But the court notice and the clerk still give the current time, room, judge, and location.

Pendleton County Calendar Term Pattern

Pendleton County keeps an unusual term schedule under the West Virginia Trial Court Rules. Rule 2.26 places the local term docket on the first Tuesday of March, July, and November. A term is simply a recurring court sitting. It does not promise that any one case will be called on that day.

Your own hearing date is something else entirely. Pendleton County cases get separate notices. Settings can move through continuances after the term begins. Before you plan around a date, pull the case docket. Check its newest event or order. That entry tells you far more than the term calendar. The official rule text appears in the page linked below.

View the Trial Court Rules source for Pendleton's term dates.

The first-Tuesday language gives local context, but the actual Pendleton County setting still needs verification with the clerk.

How to Find Your Court Date

Begin with the case number printed on your notice, citation, order, or filing. That number points you to the right court layer and keeps you from chasing false matches among similar names. Use each documented channel when you need it:

1. Search Circuit and Family cases in WVPASS, or search Magistrate cases through MCR Search.
2. Open the matching Pendleton County case and read the newest event, order, or docket entry.
3. Compare the online event with the notice received by the party or attorney.
4. Call the Circuit Clerk at 304-358-7067 or the Magistrate Clerk at 304-358-2343 or 304-358-2344.
5. At the clerk's counter, ask whether a courtroom posting, public docket call, or later continuance changes the setting.

The Circuit Clerk works from 10 South Main Street, second floor, in Franklin. The Magistrate Clerk sits at the same street address. A mailed record request can work. Yet mail moves too slowly when a court date is close. The county posts no official daily printed calendar. So ask the clerk whether one hangs somewhere for that day.

Pendleton County Calendar Across Circuits

Pendleton County shares the Twenty-Sixth Judicial Circuit with Hampshire and Hardy counties. Family Court is different. It sits in the Twenty-Fifth Family Court Circuit alongside Grant and Hardy. Some judges listed for the circuit keep offices in Romney or Moorefield, according to the county judiciary listing. An office address alone does not mean your Pendleton hearing will happen there, so treat it as a clue rather than a destination.

Pendleton County spreads across a judicial circuit, so one judge may sit in more than one courthouse. The case stays tied to its docket either way. Before you travel, confirm which courtroom holds the hearing. Family Court matters especially, since those judges often cover the whole circuit and move between locations on the calendar.

Reading a Court Setting

You may see a schedule of events laid out in rows when you open an MCR case detail page. Each row matters. An old event marked closed can simply be history. A newer line below it still holds the next live hearing date. So read every row before you assume what a court setting means.

A reason-closed field only describes that one event record. It does not tell you the whole Pendleton County case is over. Later docket entries and the disposition give you that answer.

Pendleton County Calendar Event Terms

Short labels on a Pendleton County calendar line carry real weight, so read them alongside the full case docket rather than alone.

Appearance

A party's or attorney's participation at a scheduled event.

Continuance

An order moving a setting to a later date.

Event closed

A note that one event ended, not proof that the case ended.

Disposition

The recorded procedural result of a charge or case.

Transfer

A move to another court layer, which may create a new case number.

Reset, canceled, and continued each mean something different, and the newest docket entry or order should say which one applies and why the hearing changed.

Resets, Continuances, and Cancellations

Court dates in Pendleton County shift more often than people expect. A reset can arrive as a court order, an amended notice, a continuance, a transfer, or a later event entry on the docket. The online system may lag behind the clerk. So compare whatever notice you hold against the newest docket entry. If the two disagree, call the clerk or the party's attorney right away.

An empty docket is not a dismissal. WVPASS may simply lack a document image. MCR posts an accuracy disclaimer of its own. Felony matters can also hop from Magistrate Court to Circuit Court. When that happens, search the new Circuit case number. Confirm which clerk now runs the calendar.

Note: A reset moves the date. It does not erase the duty to appear at the later setting.

Pendleton County Versus Appellate Calendars

A statewide appellate schedule is a different animal from the Pendleton County trial calendar. The Intermediate Court of Appeals current docket lists arguments from across the state. Those are not hearings set in local courtrooms. Some civil appeals from Circuit Court land there. Criminal and other assigned appeals head to the Supreme Court of Appeals instead. So check the right docket before assuming where your case stands.

Match the court name on the notice before relying on any calendar.

Pendleton County Court Date Closure Check

A hearing date can look valid and still fall apart. An emergency closure or a change in operations will do it. Before you drive to Franklin, check the West Virginia court closures page. Then call the responsible clerk if a notice seems unclear.

Treat the statewide status page as a travel check and nothing more. It cannot replace the Pendleton County case docket. It cannot cancel a setting by itself, or create a new hearing date. If the status notice and a case-specific notice conflict, contact the clerk before you travel.

Pendleton County Calendar Record Costs

A case detail view may cost you nothing. Documents pulled through WVPASS run $0.25 per page. Clerk-issued copies follow a separate schedule. The West Virginia clerk fee statute anchors the price of a copy or transcript at $1 per page, with added charges on top. Checking the Pendleton County calendar is one thing; buying a certified record is another. The full statutory fee schedule appears on the official page.

Need a certified order or copy to back a court date? Call the clerk and get the exact current total before you order.

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Pendleton County Calendar Final Check

Portals run out of answers sometimes. The docket may look blank. The courtroom number may be missing, or two dates may clash. When that happens, the clerk's office is the last practical check. Circuit and Family questions belong with the Pendleton County Circuit Clerk. Magistrate questions go to the Magistrate Clerk. Drop by Monday through Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Bring specifics: the case number, the court, the event, the date on your notice, and the detail you need confirmed. Staff can walk you through procedure and the record itself. Legal advice, though, is off the table. Want a wider look at Pendleton County court records first? Try the Pendleton County case search to pin down the right court layer before you dial.

What To Do If You Miss a Setting

Act fast. Call the clerk who keeps that docket. Reach the party's attorney if one is involved. Ask what the docket shows, whether the court entered a new order, and how the next setting will be issued. Never assume dismissal, and do not wait on a portal update.

The record itself tells you what happened next. Pull the newest docket entry or order, then confirm the next step it requires of you.