Sunday 26 October 2014

Public Divorce Records Online Retrieval

By Claire Dowell


If you want to obtain Divorce Records Arizona, you can go directly to the county Clerk of Court that made the divorce official. Any member of the general public is given the right to access public documents because they are considered as part of the public domain. There is an Office of Vital Records in the state but there is no unified storage for divorce documents. The Office of Vital Records can only aid you in tracing the exact county Clerk of Court that maintains the documents you want to obtain.

In the eyes of the court, only divorce documents can support the legality of a divorce. In case you are about to marry your special other, check if he or she has a pending divorce case so you will not get in trouble in the near future. If you went through a divorce but have now moved on and found another partner you wish to marry, make sure you have your official divorce document with you because you need to present that when you apply for a marriage license.

Only the husband, wife, their legal representatives, and any other individual that has the consent of the court can access and view everything that is included on the files. If you are otherwise, you will be given limited access to the files, which includes the names of the husband and the wife and the date and location where the divorce was finalized. Pieces of information that are deemed as personal, like the terms and conditions of the case, are kept private.

You can commence a search by filing a proper request to the county Clerk of Court. Provide the full name of at least one of the couple. You can also include other pieces of information like their address, their birthday and their work to speed up the search process. If you cannot submit the request form yourself, you can mail it instead but expect a lengthier return period which is about two to three weeks. There are certain charges for obtaining the documents. You will be charged accordingly depending on which county you made the request.

There are privately-owned sites that are involved in maintaining and accepting requests for divorce documents. There quite a number of such sites but there are only a few that are actually capable of giving genuine pieces of information. It is important that you check the credibility of a certain site prior to using the information that they supply.

Some of the service providers render fees for their service but there are also those that will provide you Free Divorce Records. You will be given enough information that will help you verify if a divorce is official or not. If you do not know where to start your search, there are service providers that will allow you to do a nationwide search.




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