Lookup Horry County Court Dockets

What Horry County Court Dockets Show

A court docket is the running case log. In Horry County, the public index uses case detail, actions, enabled tabs, financial information, and document icons where available. A docket may show filed actions, hearing events, judgments, payments, case status changes, and disposition-related entries. It usually does not show every document image, exhibit, transcript, or restricted filing. For a full certified file, the request still goes through the proper court office.

Docket meaning changes by court. A Circuit Court Common Pleas docket may track civil motions, settlement activity, foreclosure-related events, or judgment entries. A General Sessions docket may show criminal case actions, court dates, pleas, and financials. Magistrate and Municipal Court dockets may center on tickets, lower-level criminal charges, bond matters, preliminary hearings, or failures to appear. Family Court docket access is more limited because divorce, custody, support, adoption, and juvenile records can contain restricted material.

How to Find Horry County Dockets Online

The Horry County Trial Court Public Index is the main online starting point for many trial court docket entries. The public index requires cookies and JavaScript, and the Judicial Branch notes that some browsers may need a pop-up exception to view case detail. After the disclaimer and security validation, the search screen allows users to search by case number, name, court type, court agency, case type, action type, date type, and date range.

1. Open the public index through SCCourts and select Horry County from Judicial Circuit 15 or the county list.
2. Accept the county disclaimer and complete the security validation by clicking Validate.
3. Enter a case number when known, or use party name plus court type, agency, case type, or date filters.
4. Click the case number in the results grid to open the case detail.
5. Review bold or enabled tabs for actions, financials, document icons, and Switch View for a combined case display.

The attorney-services screenshot was captured from Horry County Clerk of Court attorney services.

The Clerk's attorney-services page matters because local rosters and hearing instructions can supplement a public index docket search.

Sample Horry County Docket Fields

The research source did not capture a live Horry case docket entry, but the official public index guide identifies the key fields and controls shown after a case is opened. Those items are enough to read most public docket results. When the case detail page opens, the case number link leads from the results grid into actions, parties, financials, and any enabled tabs. Document icons may appear when images are available, but not every case has an image.

Note: An online docket may show a filing or event without showing the full document behind that entry.

Horry County Court Docket Sources

Horry County is part of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit with Georgetown County. Circuit Court has Common Pleas for civil matters and General Sessions for criminal matters. The public index is the main trial-court search path for many Circuit and Magistrate case entries. Family Court uses the South Carolina Family Court Public Portal and Clerk Family Court contact, because divorce, custody, support, adoption, and juvenile materials can have different access limits.

Lower court dockets need careful routing. Horry Central Traffic Court, Magistrate Court locations, Domestic Violence Court, Bond Court, and municipal courts may each hold the most useful date information for a ticket, warrant, bond, preliminary hearing, or ordinance case. Myrtle Beach Municipal Court publishes sessions at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Monday through Friday and has city-specific rules for payments, continuances, appeals, attire, and prohibited items. North Myrtle Beach Municipal Court has its own court contact and payment channel.

• Circuit Court covers Common Pleas civil and General Sessions criminal docket activity.
• Family Court covers divorce, custody, support, adoption, name change, and juvenile docket access with restrictions.
• Magistrate Court covers small civil claims, bail, preliminary hearings, lower criminal cases, warrants, and many traffic matters.
• Municipal Court covers city ordinance, traffic, and qualifying criminal matters inside city limits.
• Appellate and federal courts use separate state appellate and federal docket systems.

The North Myrtle Beach screenshot was captured from North Myrtle Beach Municipal Court.

City court pages are important because municipal docket and payment details may not be complete in the county trial public index.

Horry County Dockets vs Case Records

A docket helps track case movement. The full case record may include pleadings, orders, exhibits, forms, notices, judgments, sentence papers, or certified copies that are not displayed as free images in the public index. The official guide notes that document icons appear where available, but not all counties, cases, or case types include images. Certified copies and older files should be requested through the correct clerk or court office.

The appellate docket screenshot was captured from South Carolina appellate C-Track public access.

C-Track is separate from Horry County trial dockets and is used when a case has moved to the state appellate courts.

Reading Horry County Court Dockets

Several terms appear often in Horry County court dockets. A plaintiff is the person or entity filing a civil case. A defendant is the accused person in a criminal case or the sued party in a civil case. A motion is a request for a judge's ruling. An order is a judge's directive. A judgment is a final or enforceable court decision. A disposition is the outcome of a case or charge. Those terms should be read with the court type, because the same word may have different practical effects in a civil, criminal, family, traffic, or probate setting.

Disposition is the term most often misread. A disposed case is not always a dismissed case. It may mean guilty plea, conviction, dismissal, settlement, discharge, judgment, transfer, or another result. Booking data also uses disposition values such as Pre-Trial or Discharged, but those are jail or charge display fields and should not be treated as final court outcomes without checking the court docket. Financial tabs can show fines and payments while the case status may still require court review.

Horry County Docket Rosters

The Horry County Clerk of Court's attorney-services materials add a local scheduling detail that does not fit neatly into a simple public index search. The Clerk page links 2026 settlement hearing rosters for January through June and July through December. Minor settlement and death settlement hearings may be scheduled by emailing the Clerk's Office, and those hearings are held by WebEx on specified days with court attire required. That roster system is a reminder that a case docket and a hearing roster are related but not always the same screen.

Common Pleas hearings and trials in Horry County are generally conducted in person unless the presiding judge gives written approval for remote participation in advance. The Attorney Services page references the South Carolina Supreme Court remote technology order as amended February 19, 2025. When a docket entry or roster note is unclear, the best follow-up is the court office named on the case, ticket, subpoena, or hearing notice.

Federal Dockets Near Horry County

Federal court dockets are not in the Horry County public index. Horry County matters in federal court are generally tied to the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, with federal filing and hearing venues set by that court. Bankruptcy records use the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of South Carolina. Federal appeals go to the Fourth Circuit. PACER and CM/ECF are the official search and filing systems for federal cases, while county court portals handle state and local cases only.

The PACER screenshot was captured from PACER federal docket access.

PACER is the correct route for federal docket sheets, filings, and bankruptcy records that do not appear in Horry County systems.

The federal appellate image was captured from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

The Fourth Circuit is relevant only after a federal district or bankruptcy case reaches the federal appellate level.