Georgia Legal Overview: Augusta The Augusta metro area in Georgia, officially known as the Augusta–Richmond County metropolitan statistical area, is defined by the Census Bureau as covering six counties. Four of these counties are in Georgia, including Richmond, Burke, Columbia and McDuffie counties. The other two are Aiken and Edgefield counties, both in South Carolina. Most residents of the metro area who reside within Georgia are served by the Augusta Judicial Circuit which comes under the 10th Judicial District. The major cities and CDPs in the Augusta metro area within Georgia are listed below.
Top Georgia cities for Legal Issues: Augusta
1. Richmond, Burke and Columbia counties are served by the Augusta Circuit of the 10th Judicial District. Superior court judges preside over separate divisions of the court in the city of Augusta. There is one division of the court in Evans, which is a CDP in Columbia County. Augusta additionally has the State Court of Richmond County, and the Civil Court and Magistrate Court of Richmond County. The civil court has limited jurisdiction over civil actions not exceeding $45,000, while the magistrate court handles cases not exceeding $15,000. 2. Harry and Annette Humbert received a property tax notice assessing their home at $23 million. The previous assessment was $200,000, so they appealed against it and found it was because of a key-in error at the Columbia County Tax Assessor's Office. 3. Builder Hugo Diaz, who pleaded guilty of conspiring with his wife to hire illegal immigrants, is at the center of a federal standoff between the U.S. Attorney’s office that wants to seize the assets and a bankruptcy court that wants to pay off Diaz’s construction suppliers.
Augusta Circuit - 10th Judicial District of Georgia
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Trending Augusta Legal Topics: McDuffie County is served by the Toombs Circuit of the 10th Judicial District. Appeals from the superior courts, along with juvenile and some probate court appeals, can be filed directly with the Georgia Court of Appeals. Municipal and magistrate court appeals have to be filed with the appropriate judicial circuit. The Georgia Supreme Court is the court of last resort. Federal cases in the Augusta metro area may be filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Federal appeals in Georgia are handled by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. |