West Virginia Legal Overview: Cumberland The Cumberland metropolitan area (Cumberland, MD-WV MSA) covers Allegany County, Maryland and Mineral County, West Virginia. Mineral County comes under the Twenty-First Judicial Circuit, with the Mineral County Circuit Court located in Keyser as the county’s main trial court with general jurisdiction over al criminal and civil cases. This court handles all the felony prosecutions, and has jurisdiction over all civil cases above $300 filed in the county. Mineral County also has a family court and limited jurisdiction magistrate courts.
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1. Mineral County comes under the 23rd Family Court Circuit, which also covers Hampshire and Morgan Counties. The family court for Mineral County is actually located in Berkeley Springs, which is the county seat for Morgan County. This court handles divorce petitions and annulments, support, domestic violence civil cases, visitation, and other family law matters. The two magistrates for Mineral County are located in Keyser, and have limited jurisdiction over civil cases below $5,000, misdemeanors, and ordinance violations.
Mineral County Courts
Trending Legal Topics: Appeals against the magistrate courts must be filed with the circuit court. Family court appeals can be filed with the circuit court or the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. The latter will only accept family court appeals if both parties have no objection to the venue. West Virginia does not have an intermediate appellate court. All federal cases in Mineral County must be filed with the Martinsburg Division of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia. |