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Request the Wake County Divorce Decree

The North Carolina Judicial Branch says a copy of a divorce judgment is obtained from the clerk of court’s office in the county where the divorce was granted, for a fee. For a Wake County divorce, that means the Wake County clerk. Online Portal case information may help you identify the case, but the clerk is the official route for the judgment copy.

Document choice

Wake County decree, case information, and certificate are not the same thing

This narrow task becomes simple once the document type is clear.

Need Official route What it gives you Important limit
Divorce judgment / decree Wake County Clerk of Court The court judgment that granted the divorce Request the actual copy from the clerk; a fee applies
Case information / locator North Carolina eCourts Portal or clerk public access Public case information that can help identify the file Online information is a locator; use the clerk for the official judgment copy
Divorce certificate N.C. Vital Records / applicable vital-record route A vital-record certificate showing the divorce event It is not the court judgment/decree
Before contacting the clerk

Gather the identifiers that make the request easier to target

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    Party names

    Use the names as they appeared in the case when possible.

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    Case number

    If Portal or prior paperwork gives you the case number, include it.

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    Approximate year

    A filing/divorce year helps narrow an older search.

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    Copy type needed

    Ask the receiving organization whether it requires a certified copy rather than an ordinary copy.

Three-step route

Locate the case, then request the judgment

If the divorce was granted in Wake County, confirm the case first and then request the judgment copy you need from the clerk.

  1. 01
    Confirm Wake County

    The clerk-of-court route follows the county where the divorce was granted.

  2. 02
    Use Portal or clerk access to identify the case

    North Carolina provides eCourts case information statewide; use it to confirm the file and identifiers when available.

  3. 03
    Request the judgment copy from the Wake County clerk

    Call Wake’s Divorce, Child Custody, Pending Cases line at 919-792-4125, or the Clerk of Superior Court at 919-792-4000, with the names, case number/year and required copy type. Confirm the page count, final charge, accepted payment and delivery method before requesting the copy.

    The standard statutory units in G.S. 7A-308 are $2 for the first page of each document copied, $0.25 for each additional page or fraction, and $3 for a certificate under seal. These units are not a personalized or automatically additive total: subsection (b) exempts services performed as part of the regular disposition of an action, proceeding or estate and provides a greater-service-fee rule for combined services. Subsection (b1) exempts qualifying copy/certificate requests by appointed or contracted Indigent Defense Services attorneys during the representation. Ask the clerk which charges or exceptions apply to your judgment copy.

Online lookup

Portal helps locate the case; the clerk supplies the official judgment copy

North Carolina Judicial Branch guidance allows online case searching, but divorce judgment copies are obtained from the clerk in the county where the divorce was granted.

Practical distinction Use the record system that matches the document or question.
A divorce certificate is not the divorce judgment
If a bank, government office, or other recipient asks for the decree/judgment, do not substitute a vital-record certificate without confirming that it is acceptable.

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Sources

North Carolina court-record guidance