Free Public Divorce Records And Marriage Licenses

By Claire Dowell


Florida Divorce Records are maintained by the Florida Vital Records Office. All documents of divorce cases since 1927 are kept at the office along with marriage documents. The documents are sometimes labelled as Dissolution of Marriage. Do not get confused because they are practically the same.

Any member of the general public are given the right to access divorce documents, provided that the proper process is observed. Requestors can secure a request form at the Vital Records office. There are certain pieces of information that must be supplied on the form such as the name of requestor, residence address, contact details and motive for wanting to get the document. The completed form is to be submitted back to the office along with two IDs, one of which must be a government-issued ID, and the corresponding fees. The fees are non-refundable regardless of whether the requested document is found or not.

One of the necessary pieces of information that you need to be able to supply when requesting for a divorce records are the year when the divorce was finalized and which county finalized it. Divorce files are initially filed under a county's Clerk of Courts. Once they are finalized, they are then submitted to the Vital Records office where they are stored along with other public files. If you want to acquire a divorce file but are not aware when it took place and which specific county has it, head directly to the Vital Records office and they will be the one to redirect your request to the exact county who has the files. The office only keeps files from 1927 onwards, which means all files that were filed before that year are only available at the county of Clerk of Court where they were initially filed.

You may also request for the records of other people. However, you should be very specific with your reason why you want to obtain them. For instance, people who are about to get married and want to check if their partners have a history of being married in the past and is not divorced yet, this is allowed. They are allowed because it will create more trouble in the future if you get married to someone who is still officially married to someone else.

The records can also be obtained from online service providers. There are a number you can found on the Web but, sadly, not all of them can be trusted. So before jumping on the first one you can find, conduct a quick background check on it and a few more others and find out if they are a reliable source for divorce records or not. One way of doing that is by reading what other users are saying about them.

There are fee-based service providers and then there are service providers that provide Divorce Records Free. If you choose the former, you will get an extensive version of the records. That means you can find more information, including the more personal ones. If you choose the latter, you will be given just the basics of the record such as the complete names of husband and wife, respective ages, addresses, and the time and place where the divorce was granted. It may not be a lot but they are more than enough to reveal whether a divorce took place or not.




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