The Tucker County Court Calendar
Tucker County posts no official daily trial calendar. It offers no public hearing-calendar search and no courtroom-settings export. Do not fill that gap with guessed dates. Circuit and family settings can surface through WVPASS. Magistrate case information can surface through Magistrate Case Record Search. For a city ordinance setting, try the city clerk or recorder. Court level is the key that unlocks everything. Tucker sits in the 22nd Judicial Circuit alongside Preston County. It also belongs to the Randolph/Tucker Family Court Circuit. Tucker Magistrate Court keeps its own clerk and court contacts. Shared administration does not make a Preston or Randolph listing a Tucker calendar. Trust the Tucker-filed case number and whatever office is named on the notice.
Tucker Calendar Fallback Chain
Begin with the West Virginia Court Record Access page. Pick WVPASS for public circuit records, or Magistrate Case Record Search for lower-court information. When an event still is not clear, call the court office directly. Magistrate clerk offices statewide also offer a public terminal. The clerk prints no official daily Tucker calendar. So ask at the counter whether a current public calendar exists.
| Case level | First check | Confirmation |
|---|---|---|
| Circuit | WVPASS register | Circuit Clerk or assigned court |
| Family | Public order or index where available | Circuit Clerk or Family Court |
| Magistrate | Magistrate Case Record Search | Magistrate Clerk |
| Municipal | City notice or record | Municipal clerk or recorder |
Phone, counter, mail, fax, and email all work as fallbacks. Still, a live court date is best confirmed by phone or by the court's current notice. Skip sending protected information through ordinary email unless the court tells you to do so.
How to Find Your Court Date
Collect the case number, the caption or party name, the court level, and the type of event. "Court date" alone is too broad. One file can hold a status conference, a motion hearing, a plea, a trial, or sentencing all at once. Work from the most recent entry. An older notice may have been replaced by a continuance or a reset.
- Identify whether the case is circuit, family, magistrate, or municipal.
- Check WVPASS or Magistrate Case Record Search for the latest public entry.
- Read the event type and note any later reset, continuance, or order.
- Call or visit the proper clerk and ask whether a current public counter calendar exists.
- Confirm date, time, judge, room, and remote or in-person status.
The Tucker judiciary directory names the current judges, magistrates, clerks, addresses, and court phone numbers. When a docket entry lacks practical details, it is the official place to route your question.
Tucker Court Calendar Contacts
Sharon Moats, Tucker County Circuit Clerk, sits at 211 First Street, Suite 403, Parsons, WV 26287. Her office phone is 304-478-2606, fax 304-478-4464, email sharon.moats@courtswv.gov. Hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Circuit Judges Hilary Bright and Steven L. Shaffer serve the 22nd Judicial Circuit. Family Judge Lori Haynes serves Randolph and Tucker. For magistrate matters, Brenda Arnold, Tucker County Magistrate Court Clerk, is at 211 First Street, Suite 303, Parsons, WV 26287. Her phone is 304-478-2665, fax 304-478-4836. Magistrates Riley H. Barb and Brian K. Wilfong are listed for Tucker County. A county resource page gives different magistrate numbers, 304-478-2655 or 3655. Treat the judiciary listing as the court-specific number. Reconfirm if a call fails to connect.
Reading a Court Setting
A setting entry only schedules an event. It never proves the hearing happened. Read it alongside the latest docket activity and any order tied to it. "Continued" means you must hunt down the new setting. "Held" means you should look for a resulting order. Keep in mind that a room number or remote link may not appear in the public record at all.
| Date | The scheduled day; check for a later change. |
|---|---|
| Time | The listed start time, which should be confirmed. |
| Courtroom | The assigned room or location, if public and available. |
| Judge | The judicial officer assigned to the event. |
| Setting type | Arraignment, conference, motion, plea, trial, sentence, or another event. |
Pay attention to exact wording. Arraignment deals with the charge and the plea process. A preliminary hearing marks an early felony stage. A status conference checks progress, and a motion hearing takes up one specific request. Sentencing follows a qualifying disposition, so never mistake it for trial.
Tucker Terms Are Not Dates
The local Circuit Clerk page lists terms of court in February, June, and October. A term is just an administrative stretch of the court year. It does not promise your case will be heard in one of those months, and it cannot replace a filed notice or a setting order. Tucker County events follow the judge's calendar and the needs of each case.
- Term of court
- A court-session period, not one hearing date.
- Setting
- A scheduled event in a specific case.
- Continuance
- An order or action moving an event from its prior date.
- Reset
- A new scheduled date after a change.
When you ask about a term, say which calendar product you mean: the general term schedule, a jury period, or a case-specific hearing. Those are three different things.
Resets, Continuances, and Cancellations
A Tucker County docket can hold an old setting and its replacement side by side. Read the entries in order, but weigh the newest one most. A continuance shifts a hearing to another day. A reset names the day that replaces it. A cancellation drops the event from the calendar. One moved hearing does not dismiss the case, and a later date may still appear on its own.
Check who issued the notice and which court controls it. Lawyers and parties sometimes get updates before a public portal shows them. WVPASS can leave out nonpublic material, and the magistrate search posts no document images online. When the latest status is unclear, call the clerk. A cached search result is not proof of anything. Neither is a calendar copied onto another site.
Note: a moved setting does not end the case. A portal entry left unchanged does not prove the hearing still stands.
Tucker Appellate Calendar Distinction
West Virginia's Intermediate Court of Appeals posts a current docket of its own. It lists dates, appellate case numbers, case information, and which panel or session hears each matter. That layout makes it a handy public model of how calendar fields look. It is not the Tucker County trial calendar. An appeal can carry an appellate setting. The original Tucker record stays with the trial-court clerk who filed it. The official Intermediate Court calendar shows that appellate layout.
Treat that page only as a field model. It carries no Circuit Court, Family Court, or Magistrate Court trial settings for Tucker County.
Most civil and family appeals route to the Intermediate Court. Criminal, juvenile, abuse-and-neglect, domestic-violence, and other assigned matters can travel different appellate roads. Check the official appellate rules first. Then confirm which court holds your next date.
Tucker Private Calendar Limits
A public hearing date does not open the whole file. Family Court rules keep orders and indices public. They generally seal pleadings, recordings, exhibits, and transcripts. Juvenile records sit behind a statutory restriction. Domestic-violence records answer to their own confidentiality rules. The clerk can confirm only what the law and a court order allow.
Ask for the public setting alone. Leave protected party details out of the request. Do not pass around a remote link the court has not cleared for public use. Never assume a missing event was canceled. It may be restricted, sealed, or simply left off the online docket. The right move is to ask the clerk. Ask whether a public date or order can be released.
What To Do If You Miss a Setting
Call the court that set the event right away. Have the case number ready. Also have the event type, the scheduled date, and a phone number where you can be reached. Ask whether an order was entered. Ask what official step comes next. The clerk cannot change a date or excuse an absence. Relief that needs a judicial decision comes from the court alone.
Act promptly. In magistrate traffic matters, the rules describe notice to the prosecutor and, where applicable, DMV after a failure to answer or appear. A magistrate may issue a warrant on a prosecutor's motion for good cause where the rules allow. This describes procedure, not the status of any one case.
Traffic tickets work differently. Use the citation and the clerk's instructions. Answer by the deadline. A guilty or no-contest plea and a not-guilty plea may follow different rules. The appearance, phone, or mail options can differ depending on the charge. For a circuit or family setting, ask for the newest order or public entry. The Tucker County case search can help you find the right file before you call.