mercredi 29 janvier 2014

Marriage Records California Free Information Online

By Ben Kingsley


A marriage needs to be documented so that there is official. In California, the State Health Department is tasked to store California Marriage Records. The documents can also be used for genealogical searches and tracing the original family name of a woman. The Health Department only grants marriage certificates. Certified copies of marriage documents can only be acquired at the exact Clerk of Court that made the marriage official.

A person may request for public documents, including marriage documents. However, if a person wants to request the documents of another person, he or she will need the permission of the couple. Even with the permission of the couple, that person will only be given a marriage certificate because certified copies are only given to the couple, their lawyers, and other parties that are specified by the court. Certified copies contain the complete details of a marriage document. Certified copies can be used in a legal proceeding, while marriage certificates only serves as basis for information.

A marriage certificate contains the basic pieces of information regarding a particular marriage such as the name of the husband and the wife, their birth date, birth place, the place where the marriage occurred, and the likes. It is the right of the husband and the wife to keep private the other details of their marriage.

Government offices that are tasked of keeping public files have their respective websites. In their database are copies of public files in encoded form. Since the files are in a database, it is easier to find out if a requested file is available or not. Despite having their own websites, it still takes quite some time to retrieve the files, mainly because government offices employ only a handful of people. Fortunately, there online service providers that also keep marriage files. Such online service providers are permitted by the court to provide the files to the public upon request. The files that online service providers keep are the same as what government offices keep.

Online search tools are categorized into two: free online search tools and paid online search tools. Free online search tools provide the basic details of a marriage document. Paid online search tools will also provide the basic details of marriage, plus a lot more as long as they are legally available. You can perform as many searches as you want if you register yourself as a member of a paid online search tool. There is only a one-time payment to become a member. If you are not interested in becoming a member, you are obliged to pay for each document that you search for.

It is important to check if a marriage record has a Marriage License included in it. Without a license, a marriage will not be considered as valid even if a ceremony was carried out. A county Clerk of Court is the public agency in-charge of granting a license. Once a licensed is issued, it will only be effective for 90 days. Once it surpasses that period of time, the license becomes useless and the husband and the wife needs to apply for another one. If a person has been married in the past, a divorce record is required for a license application to be accepted.




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