Childress County and District Clerk: No Discharge Line Posted - LGC 192.002 Carries the Free Filing

The office. Tiffany Howard, Childress County and District Clerk (so named on the Court's 2025-2026 agendas), on the second floor of the Childress County Courthouse, 100 Avenue East NW, Childress, Texas 79201. Monday to Thursday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., closed for lunch, and Friday until 3:30 p.m. The Clerk's page posts no telephone number; the County Judge's office is 940-937-2221. The Clerk's records are searchable online through LGS. The discharge. The County Clerk's page posts its fee schedule as an image and links forms for marks and brands, birth and death certificates and assumed names, but names no discharge and no discharge form. Recording a discharge is free under Local Government Code 192.002 and a certified copy under Government Code 603.003 (see the Texas entry). Government Code 552.140 keeps a discharge recorded on or after September 1, 2003 confidential for 75 years and releases it only to the veteran, the veteran's guardian, spouse, child or parent (or, with none living, the nearest living relative), the estate's personal representative, a person named in a power of attorney, a governmental body or the funeral home assisting with the burial. Call or visit the office before mailing a discharge or a request.