The Magistrate Court provides the following services for Ben Hill County:

• Issue and conduct civil claims
• Issue garnishments
• Writs
• Dispossessory
• Foreclosures
• Issue subpoenas
• Issue post judgment interrogatories
• Enforce county ordinances
• Perform marriages
• Issue search warrants
• Issue civil judgments
• Issue almost all criminal warrants
• Setup pre-warrant application hearings
• Issue bad check warrants (deposit account fraud)
• Hold bond hearings (set the amount of bond)
• Issue conditions orders on family violence warrants
• Execute and accept written waivers of extradition
• Can issue contempt orders
• Issue bench warrants

The monetary limit of the Magistrate Court is $15,000.