Collections Department
Cathy Lindsey, Manager
Kathy Adams, Supervisor
901-405-8843

The Collections Department within the Court Clerk's Office is responsible for the collection and processing of all monies assessed and paid through the Juvenile Court system.  This includes child support payments by mail or in person, employer payrolls, all cash window activity generated from courtroom dockets, walk-ins, as well as fees and fines assessed non-judicially such as conferences, court cost and traffic ticket violations.  This area of the Clerk's Office also handles the writing of all appearance bonds, juvenile or adult, cash of surety, and collection and disbursement of court-ordered restitution payments.

Beginning in October, 1999, most child support collections were re-directed to the "centralized collections" process through the State of Tennessee in Nashville.  However, the Court Clerk's Office still processed $7,307,365.00 in child support transactions in 2007.  The Clerk''s Office received $731,029.00 in State reimbursement for services associated with these collections under the IV-D Child Support Program.