Civil court searches for lawsuits and judgments.
A search of civil court filings — county upper and lower, or federal district — including parties, dollar amounts, and dispositions. Filings are allegations, and matching them to a person is harder than matching criminal cases.
Also called civil search, civil litigation search, judgments and liens.
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How it runs on vID
Identity verified
Search runs
Report returned
What it covers
Civil filings in the courts searched (county upper/lower, federal district), as indexed- Judgments and liens where part of the ordered product
Due-diligence packages use civil searches because a pattern of fraud suits or unpaid judgments can matter; high-volume hourly hiring should not. A human should read the case before anyone treats a filing as a fact about character.
What it covers
- Civil filings in the courts searched (county upper/lower, federal district), as indexed
- Judgments and liens where part of the ordered product
What it doesn’t cover
Prove fault; a filing is an allegation until it is not- Match identities cleanly; extra corroboration is the work
- Belong in a high-volume hourly package
Where the data comes from.
County civil court indexes
Upper, lower, or both; family law often lives here too.
Federal civil district court
A separate system, same as federal criminal is.
Why identity comes first.
Civil indexes match on name strings. Without a bound identity and a review step, you can attach someone else's landlord-tenant fight to your candidate.
How the network fulfills it.
County civil is still a clerk; federal civil is still a district. The same researcher networks go there, with the same scope conversation as criminal.
This is the wrong search if…
You wanted criminal coverage and added civil to feel complete
You added noise. Run criminal properly instead.
Commonly ordered with.
- Federal criminal search
Federal civil and federal criminal are neighbors, not twins.
- Employment credit report
Judgments sometimes show in both; lawful credit is a separate question.
- County criminal search
The criminal docket, which is usually the one you wanted.
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Identity-verified, fulfilled through the partner network.
Who orders this
Frequently asked questions.
Read the docket, not the hit count.
Identity-verified, court-scoped, human-reviewed.
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