Sutter County Marriage Records

Status is something that follows a person no matter where he or she goes, and one of the ceremonies that modify the status of a person would be marriage. In fact, when a person travels to another country, the fact that he or she is married follows him or her so that he or she cannot get married in that new country. Marriage is also something that the general public is concerned with, and when one takes this into consideration, it is not that difficult to see why marriage records such as Sutter County Marriage Records, are being asked for, not only by the public but even by other governments.

It is for this reason that Marriage Records Sutter are considered public records. The classification, however, is limited only to informational copies which are available to every person who would request for the same. Note that informational copies could not actually be used for official proceedings, and only certified copies could be used for that. Certified copies are not public records in the sense that only a limited few, identified by the law in an exclusive list, could request for the same. Informational copies and certified copies, however, present the same information; it is just that informational copies could not be used for official proceedings.

Sutter County Marriage License Records are available at the local level through the office of the clerk-recorder. There are two methods that could be used at this level when requesting for records, and both have their own set of advantages and disadvantages. The first method would be to make the request for the records in person, and this involves the searcher heading over to the office in person and making the request over the counter. Although this method would require the searcher to actually be at the office, note that requests in person are faster as the records requested for would usually be made available at the same day. The other method would be to search for the records through mail. Slower than requests in person because the records would have to be mailed directly to the home of the searcher, this method has the advantage of not requiring the searcher to go to the office at all.
Either way, the required fee is fifteen dollars, and requests for certified copies would require the formal requisite of having the application form notarized and a sworn statement detailing the relationship of the person making the request to the parties to the marriage should be appended to the application form.

Another source of State of California Marriage License Records would be the state itself, and this is done through the California Department of Public Health. The procedure here is the same as at the local level requesting through mail because the department has no desk that could handle requests for the records in person. The required fee at this level is also fifteen dollars per record and the processing time is usually between three to twenty days.
Another source of marriage records would be online databases. These online databases are mostly privately owned but they provide the same information as the various government offices and databases, albeit using a faster and more efficient platform. In addition, most of these databases do not charge anything for the use of their services.

Marriage Records Sutter County
The procedure given below must be followed when requesting for records at the local level

• – Head over to the website of the office of the county-clerk and download the relevant application form
• – Accomplish the application form either by hand or through the computer
• – Note that requests for certified copies would require you to have the form notarized and a sworn statement detailing your relationship to the parties to the marriage should be appended to the application form.
• – Determine your required fee and make a money order or check to answer for the same.
• – Send all the requirements to the office for processing. This would usually take anywhere between two to ten days.

Sutter County Marriage License Records

The following links should be able to provide further information

• – Sutter County
• – Clerk-Recorder
• – District Attorney
• – Library
• – California Department of Public Health
• – Center for Disease Control