Free Public Divorce Records Florida

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 individual has the right to request for the records as long as the proper procedures are followed. A request form is available at the Vital Records office. The form needs to be filled out appropriately. All required fields of information like your name, address, contact number and reason for requesting the records should be included. Once that is done, submit the form back to the office, along with two forms of identification - one being a government-issued ID - and the appropriate fees. Once the fees are settled, a no-refund policy takes into full effect regardless of the outcome of the search.

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.

Acquiring the divorce files of other people is permitted under certain circumstances. For example, a person wants to check if his or her future lifetime partner is not involved in another marriage and if they are and/or were, is it legally over? It spells a lot of trouble if you get married to a person who is, under the laws of the land, currently married to another person.

There are also a number of websites that can supply you with divorce documents. It is crucial, however, to note that not all sources can be considered as reliable. So before availing any of the various website's services, make sure that you get an idea about what kind of information they capable of providing. Try reading the comments of other users and see if they are satisfied with the information that they got or not.

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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