Acquiring Online California Divorce Records

By Claire Dowell


It is the task of the Florida Department of Health, under their Vital Records office, to maintain Free California Divorce Records. The agency keeps documents of divorce that took place between 1962 and 1984. In addition, the agency can only provide a certificate that serves as proof that a divorce was finalized. If you want to acquire a certified copy of the documents, including those not kept by the Vital Records office, you can head to the Clerk of Superior Court of the exact county where the divorce took place.

To start a search, you must secure a request form at the Vital Records office or at a specific county Clerk of Court. You can also download it from their respective websites. Complete the form appropriately with the required details such as the name of the couple, their address, birthday, and when the divorce took place. Also include your contact details such as your name, phone number, and mailing address.

Divorce documents are made to available to the public because they are considered part of the public domain. A person can request his or her own documents and can even request to have it updated if he or she thinks that there are inaccurate details on it. It is also legal to request the documents of other people. However, this privilege is not given to everybody. There are only a select few that are given this privilege and they include law enforcers, lawyers, and those that want to be sure of their future partner's marital status. The amount of information that will be revealed to these people will vary on who they are and their reason for acquiring the documents. If the caretaker of the documents does not find the reason stated by a requestor as valid, the caretaker has the right to not accept the request.

The important details of a divorce case are put on a divorce document. It contains the full names of the husband and wife, their date of birth and age, and the names of their parents, amongst others. The terms and conditions of the divorce case like child custody arrangement and division of assets and liabilities, as decided by a presiding judge, can also be found on the document.

The documents can also be acquired to certain websites that have the consent of the government to keep and supply them to the public. There are many of such websites but, sadly, not all of them are reliable sources. There are websites that just want to take advantage of innocent people. To avoid getting victimized by the fake ones, requestors are encouraged to conduct a background check on the websites first to collect as many information as they can about them until they can determine if that website is real or not.

The county Clerk of Superior Court can also provide the public with Divorce Court Records. It is the right of the owner of the documents and its custodian to give or deny a person access. It is prohibited by the law to use the documents to defame, to blackmail or to harass other individuals. Violators shall be dealt with accordingly by the court.




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