Paulding County Marriage Records

The reason why marriage records like Paulding County Marriage Records exists and are being requested for by people is the fact that these are the best records that one could produce in order to validate the existence of a marriage. The question might arise as to why there is a need to verify the existence of a marriage, and the reason is because marriage is something that changes the status of a person, and status is something that follows the person no matter where he or she may go. This is the reason why someone who is married and whose marriage is still subsisting could not get married to someone else just because he or she had fled to a different jurisdiction.

Marriage Records Paulding County provides information that could be used to verify the existence and the validity of the marriage, but it could not be used to prove that the marriage had actually been terminated because a different record is needed for that. Nevertheless, marriage records may be used in a number of proceedings, and they are afforded great respect when it comes to the authenticity of their contents because they are public records, and public records are deemed to be always accurate in the absence of competent evidence.

Copies of Paulding County Marriage License Records are generally available from two sources, and these would be the local level, and the state level. The local level search would be the province of the office of the local probate court because the probate court is the one that gave the license in the first place. They simply have to look at their own records in order to provide the record. Note, however, that the local probate courts have limited jurisdictions, so they would not have copies of marriage records issued by a different probate court. The procedure that is followed at this level would be requesting for the records in person, and though this may mean travel time, do note that this is the more efficient procedure because the records are frequently made available at the same day that they are requested for.

Copies of Marriage Records Georgia are also available at the state level through the Office of Vital Records of the Georgia Department of Health. Here, the procedure is one where the person who desires the copy would first have to download the required form from the website of the department. Once accomplished, the request form should be sent to the office for processing; together with either a money order or check to answer for the required fee which is ten dollars for the first record, plus an additional five dollars for every additional copy of the same record that would be requested for at the same time. Note that this procedure may take as long as a month or so given that it is done through mail.

Nowadays, it is also possible to request and search for marriage records online through the use of online databases. These databases are mostly privately owned, btu they provide substantially the same information as the government databases, with the main difference being that they are faster, more efficient, and they could be accessed from just about anywhere where there is a substantial internet connection because they are internet base databases.

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Marriage Records Paulding County
A request for marriage records at the local level should follow the procedure given below

• – Head on to the records division of the probate court
• – At the records division, inform the clerk on duty of your request.
• – The clerk would ask you some questions regarding the record that you are interested in.

try to answer as accurately as possible in order to limit the search parameters.

• – Using their own database, the clerk would then search for all records matching your search criteria.
• – The database would return record and you would be asked to identify the one that you are interested in so that the clerk may produce it for your perusal.
• – Make sure that the records that you are holding are the ones that you want before asking that copies of the same be made for you.
• – Pay the required fee at the cashier before claiming your copies of the record.

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Paulding County Marriage License Records

The following links may be consulted for further information and other procedures

• – Paulding County
• – Clerk of Court
• – County Attorney
• – District Attorney
• – Probate Court
• – Library
• – Georgia Department of Health
• – Office of Vital Records
• – Center for Disease Control Vital Records