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I need a copy of my marriage certificate to show my name change for
travel purposes. The courthouse cannot locate it.What are my options?
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mjim@volcanomail.com wrote:
I need a copy of my marriage certificate to show my name change for
travel purposes. The courthouse cannot locate it.What are my options?
County records department, rather than the courthouse?
If the CORRECT custondian really has lost the records, you may
be able to have a Court require the governing authority to
reissue them, but the circumstances would have to be unusual.
--
This account is subject to a persistent MS Blaster and SWEN attack.
I think I've got the problem resolved, but, if you E-mail me
and it bounces, a second try might work.
However, please reply in newsgroup.
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mjim@volcanomail.com wrote:
I need a copy of my marriage certificate to show my name change for
travel purposes. The courthouse cannot locate it.What are my options?
Ask the 'courthouse' or the person behind the counter, what are your
procedures for having a duplicate issued. Generally speaking this may
include you and your spouse executing an affidavit or other sworn
instrument saying you were married on such and such a date, etc.
-paul
ianal
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On 1/2/05 11:17 pm, in article i9300112s5k6dbb8c1g234k8srm64vgrfe@4ax.com,
"mjim@volcanomail.com" <mjim@volcanomail.com> wrote:
I need a copy of my marriage certificate to show my name change for
travel purposes. The courthouse cannot locate it. What are my options?
It is quite possible that the officiant at your wedding failed to file the
affidavit of marriage solemnization.
The significance of that depends on state law. The cases I have seen treat
the marriage as valid. (Provided you can prove by witnesses or other
evidence that it is more likely than not that there was a solemnization or
ceremony during the validity of the license.)
The first step is to confirm that a marriage license was in fact issued. In
all the jurisdictions I have looked at it is supposed to be returned to the
county clerk or register office, even if not used.
If you were, from the date of the ceremony to now, ever domiciled in a state
that recognizes (or recognized at the time) common law marriage, then you
are deemed married regardless, everywhere. But establishing that fact could
be costly. The easiest way to establish your marriage now may be to
re-marry. If the county clerk admits an official error, s/he ought to do it
(or have it done) for free.
These cases turn up from time to time. Sometimes it develops that the
marriage was a sham, sometimes it's clerical error (certificate filed or
recorded in the wrong place, or the wrong county), not infrequently the
officiant (or the bride/groom in those states where they are supposed to do
it) just failed to mail back the license/affidavit.
Good luck.
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In article <i9300112s5k6dbb8c1g234k8srm64vgrfe@4ax.com>,
<mjim@volcanomail.com> wrote:
I need a copy of my marriage certificate to show my name change for
travel purposes. The courthouse cannot locate it.What are my options?
In _most_ jurisdictions, in the United States. The _state_ has records.
the "Department of Vital Statistics", or something similar.
Alternatively, *ask*the*courthouse* what the procedure is, when they
cannot locate the record. They will know the answer, or where to get it.
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