Serving Wilder, Idaho
Wilder is in Canyon County. Matters from Wilder are heard at the Canyon County Courthouse in Caldwell, in the Third Judicial District.
Which court your case goes to
This is the first thing worth getting straight, because people regularly turn up at the wrong building. Wilder is in Canyon County, which puts it in Idaho's Third Judicial District. Matters are heard at the Canyon County Courthouse in Caldwell.
The Canyon County Courthouse is at 1115 Albany St, Caldwell, ID 83605. The clerk's office is in Room 201 and is open weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding holidays. There is a fuller guide to the building, the phone numbers and what to bring on our Canyon County Courthouse page.
What we handle for Wilder clients
- Family law: divorce, custody, child support, modifications and protection orders.
- Real estate: purchases and sales, leases, evictions, boundary and easement disputes.
- Criminal defense: misdemeanors and felonies, from the first appearance onward.
- Employment law: terminations, unpaid wages, non-competes and severance.
- Personal injury: accident and injury claims.
- Wills and estates: wills, powers of attorney and Idaho probate.
Why Wilder specifically
Wilder is farm country, and farm matters carry their own questions: ground held in a family name across two or three generations, irrigation and access agreed on a handshake decades ago and never recorded, and estates where the principal asset is the land itself and cannot simply be divided in half.
Those estates are where a will earns its keep. Splitting a working farm between several heirs sounds equitable and frequently is not workable, because the thing producing the income stops producing it once it is broken up. That conversation is worth having while everyone is alive.
Spanish-language help is available at the office, and the courthouse provides interpreter services on request.
Common questions from Wilder
Which courthouse hears a case from Wilder?
Wilder is in Canyon County, so matters are heard at the Canyon County Courthouse in Caldwell, in Idaho's Third Judicial District.
Do I have to come to Caldwell to meet a lawyer?
The office is in Caldwell at 206 S. 9th Ave. Ste. 105. A first conversation can happen by phone, and much of what follows can be handled by phone and email if getting to Caldwell is difficult.
Can I get help in Spanish?
Yes. Spanish-language help is available at the office, and the courthouse provides interpreter services on request.
Working with the office from Wilder
Located in Caldwell at 206 S. 9th Ave. Ste. 105, the office assigns Greg Chaney as the attorney on your matter rather than whoever is available. A first conversation can happen over the phone. If you do come in, Monday to Thursday runs 9:00 to 5:00 and Friday runs 9:00 to 3:00.
If you have already been served with something, or you have a date on a piece of paper, say so when you call. That single fact changes the order everything else happens in.
Talk to Greg about a Wilder matter
Say which county and whether anything has a date attached to it. A court date or a notice period changes what gets done first.