Searching Tarrant County Public Records

Types of Requests

There are four different types of requests that can be made of Tarrant County public records. The first type is official public records or OPR. To search for these records, the name of the Grantor and Grantee and the general time the record was filed. The more information that a person knows, the more able he is to find the information he is looking for. Types of information found in official public records are memos, agreements and sales, such as houses, condos and livestock. In addition, since Tarrant County has a lot of ranching, there are also cattle branding records so that there are not disputes over ownership. In addition, there are abandonment and guardianship records regarding children as well as divorce records for those people filing in Tarrant County. One final area in Tarrant County public records search of official public records is judgments against properties or liens against them.

Another type of request in Tarrant County public records is marriage license requests. In this type of request, there has to be knowledge of the bride and groom's names, the application date and the date of the marriage. If the certificate number is known, that is the most helpful to pull up a copy quickly.

The next type of request is a Uniform Commercial Code, or UCC, records search in the Tarrant County public records. In this type, the individual's name must be known, whether that person is an assignee, debtor, record owner, secured party or void. Beyond this, the action dates need to be generally known in order to complete the search. Often mortgage companies or other lenders will pull this information before granting the loan.

Finally, the most 'James Bond' type search available in a Tarrant County public records search is that of an assumed name. In this search, the assumed name must be known and any other vital information, such as the owner name, a certificate number (for instance, when a woman is married and takes her husband's name, she has to fill out paperwork to legally change her name to his, hence the certificate number) and the activity date. With this information, the person can pull the information about the assumed name.