County Government Courts in Cumming, Georgia

The Forsyth County Magistrate Court shares a building with the Tax Commissioners Office.

The role of the Magistrate Court is to handle all civil claims of $15,000 or less. These claims include distress warrants and dispossessory writs, county ordinance violations, bad checks, preliminary hearings, summons, arrest warrants and search warrants.  Judge Walker H. Bramblett is the Chief Magistrate. 

The care, safety and guidance of children are the goals of the Forsyth County Juvenile Court. On July 12, 1999, John Russell Jackson was named as the first judge to serve exclusively full-time as a judge of the juvenile court, a historical event in Forsyth County.