Pointe Coupee Parish Deed Records

Pointe Coupee Parish deed records are maintained by the Clerk of Court in New Roads, Louisiana. All conveyances and mortgages for property in the parish are filed at this office. Unlike many Louisiana parishes, Pointe Coupee Parish does not have an online records portal. Deed records must be requested in person at the New Roads courthouse, by mail, by fax, or by email. The parish has some of the oldest land records in Louisiana, with marriage records from 1735 and land records from 1780.

Pointe Coupee Parish Clerk of Court

Clerk Lanell Swindler Landry heads the Pointe Coupee Parish Clerk of Court at 211 East Main Street in New Roads. Mailing address: P.O. Box 86, New Roads, LA 70760. Phone: (225) 638-9596. Fax: (225) 638-9564. Email: lclerk@pcpolicejury.org. The clerk's office is the official source for all conveyance and mortgage records in Pointe Coupee Parish. There is no online records database for this parish. Records must be accessed in person at the New Roads courthouse, or by contacting the office by phone, mail, fax, or email to request copies.

Pointe Coupee Parish is one of the oldest parishes in Louisiana, located west of the Mississippi River north of Baton Rouge. The parish is bounded by False River, an oxbow lake that was once a channel of the Mississippi, and the Atchafalaya River on the west. It has a long history of plantation agriculture and Creole settlement, and the land records here reflect centuries of property transfers, successions, and agricultural dealings. Marriage records in the parish date to 1735 and land records to 1780, making the archive one of the deepest in the state for historical title research.

Accessing Pointe Coupee Parish Deed Records

Pointe Coupee Parish has no online records database. This is an important difference from many other Louisiana parishes that offer internet-based access through eClerks LA, Clerk Connect, or parish-specific portals. For Pointe Coupee Parish deed records, you have four options: visit the New Roads courthouse in person, send a written request by mail with payment, fax your request to (225) 638-9564, or contact the office by email at lclerk@pcpolicejury.org.

The free statewide eClerks LA portal at eclerksla.com may have some index-level data for Pointe Coupee Parish through the statewide system authorized under La. R.S. 13:754. However, for full document access and for any records not indexed through the statewide system, you will need to contact the New Roads clerk's office directly. Contact the office at (225) 638-9596 to ask what information to include with your request and the current fee schedule for certified copies.

For the oldest Pointe Coupee Parish land records, including colonial-era titles and land grants from the French and Spanish periods, the Louisiana State Land Office at doa.la.gov holds patents and tract books. Phone: (225) 342-4570. Given that the parish has land records from 1780, the Louisiana State Land Office is a critical resource for any deep title search on Pointe Coupee Parish property.

Pointe Coupee Parish Deed Documents and Fees

Pointe Coupee Parish deed records include all documents recorded in the conveyance and mortgage indexes. The conveyance index covers acts of sale, cash sales, donations, exchanges, partitions, oil and gas leases, royalty deeds, rights of way, and easements. The mortgage index holds mortgages, judgments, tax liens, mechanic's liens, and UCC financing statements. Both indexes must be reviewed for a complete title search on any Pointe Coupee Parish property.

Louisiana Civil Code Article 3338 requires recording to make documents effective against third parties. A deed signed in New Roads that is not filed at the courthouse has no legal effect against a later buyer who acquired the property without actual knowledge of the prior sale. Recording at the Pointe Coupee Parish Clerk of Court is the required step in any real estate transaction for property in the parish.

Recording fees follow the standard state schedule under La. R.S. 13:844: 1-5 pages at $105; 6-25 pages at $205; 26-50 pages at $305; 51-plus pages at $305 plus $5 per additional page. The $5 LCRAA portal fee is included. Documents must have a 2-inch top margin on the first page and 1-inch margins on all other sides. Under Louisiana Civil Code Article 2742, recorded documents become permanent Pointe Coupee Parish archives and are not returned to the filer after recording.

Nearby Parishes

Pointe Coupee Parish borders West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana, Avoyelles, Iberville, and Concordia parishes.