Georgia Marriage And Divorce Records

By Ben Kingsley


The Probate Court and the Vital Records Office are the ones in-charge of the safekeeping of Georgia Marriage Records. The Probate Court has files of marriages that transpired since 1805 and it is the court that accepts and validates marriages. The Vital Records Office, on the other hand, keeps files of marriages that transpired between 1952 and 1996.

A request can be made by completing a request form which can be acquired from the Vital Records office or can be downloaded from their website. Fields that need to be supplied include the names of the bride and the groom, when and where the marriage took place, and others. The completed can be submitted personally or mailed back to the office. There is a charge of $10 for certified marriage records and a $5 charge for spare copies which are payable by money order or check. Regardless of whether the requested records are found or not, the office will not issue a refund once the request has been submitted. In addition, it takes quite some time to process the records because public offices are usually short on employees.

Applying for a marriage starts with securing a license to marry at the Probate Court. The couple should appear at the court at the same time when they apply for a license. If one of the couple has not yet reached 18 years old, their parents will be asked to appear before the court as well. Once the license is approved, only the couple and their lawyers will have viewing rights to the license record.

Marriage records are deemed as public records. That means that the public can request for the records any time. In other states, a full marriage record can only be accessed by the bride, groom, legal representatives, and other individuals or groups specified by the court. In Georgia, they are not deemed as confidential, which means that whoever submits a request for the records can view everything that is on it.

Various websites started to maintain marriage files too. They have the approval of the court to do so, so there are no legality issues to worry about as long as they observe the appropriate protocols. There are two kinds of websites that offer marriage files: free sites and paid sites. The sites differ on how much information they can supply and it is up to you to decide which one will best fit your information needs.

No doubt that it is convenient to obtain Marriage Divorce Records online because you can virtually do it anywhere as long as you have a computer, an Internet connection, and some basic information about the record you are looking for. Although the Internet holds a vast amount of information, it is hard to tell if they are all credible. So you can be sure that the information you are getting is real, you have to be a little history check on the service provider that you choose to use. Find out if other users that have used them in the past have a positive feedback on them or not.




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