Hancock County Chancery

Chancery (CH) cases involve matters of equitable relief rather than monetary damages alone in matters such as foreclosures, trusts, and title to real property. Learn about the types of actions filed under the Chancery case category in Hancock County, including foreclosures, trusts, and disputes involving title to real property. This case category includes the following list of subcategories, which is not intended to be a comprehensive list, rather intended to illustrate the kinds of actions that are to be filed as a Chancery case.

  • Abandoned mobile home

  • Appointment of Special Administrator

  • Construction of inter vivos trust

  • Construction of testamentary trust (after Probate case has been closed)

  • Contract Actions – Specific Performance

  • Detinue

  • Equitable Lien

  • Exhume a body

  • Foreclosure of security interest in personal property

  • Injunction (except in Tax and Dissolution cases)

  • Interpleader

  • Mechanic’s lien foreclosure

  • Partition

  • Partnership dissolution

  • Petition for Issuing a Marriage Certificate (Adult)

  • Quiet title

  • Rescission of contract

  • Removal of private compromising image (Take-down Order)

  • Restraining order

  • Specific Performance

  • Structured settlement, original action to assign

  • Trust administration