Register of Wills

To ensure your needs are met in a timely manner, please call our office to make an appointment. Our appointments will always take priority over walk-ins.

Register Of Wills & Clerk of Orphans’ Court

Phone: (570) 325-2261   
Email: RegisterOfWills@CarbonCourts.com

Among the office's principal duties are:

• Probating wills and appointing fiduciaries to administer descendants' estates
• Filing and processing petitions for adoption and for termination of parental rights
• Filing and processing petitions for adjudication of incapacity
• Issuing marriage licenses
• Processing matters involving non-profit corporations
• Acts as agent for Inheritance Taxes due the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Please note: we will now be requiring copies of birth certificates and social security cards to apply for a marriage license.
Forms

• Marriage License Requirements
• Marriage License Application
• 2021 Fee Schedule
• Marriage Certificate Request Form