Acquiring Online California Divorce Records

By Claire Dowell


If you intend to acquire Free California Divorce Records, you can head to the Vital Statistics office of the California Department of Public Health. The office keeps files of divorce cases that were finalized between 1962 and 1984. However, they can only provide you with a certificate of the files, which is different from a certified copy. If you want access to a certified divorce file, regardless of year, you can get it at the exact County Clerk of Superior court that made the divorce official.

To start a search, you must secure a request form at the Vital Records office or at a specific county Clerk of Court. You can also download it from their respective websites. Complete the form appropriately with the required details such as the name of the couple, their address, birthday, and when the divorce took place. Also include your contact details such as your name, phone number, and mailing address.

Divorce documents are made to available to the public because they are considered part of the public domain. A person can request his or her own documents and can even request to have it updated if he or she thinks that there are inaccurate details on it. It is also legal to request the documents of other people. However, this privilege is not given to everybody. There are only a select few that are given this privilege and they include law enforcers, lawyers, and those that want to be sure of their future partner's marital status. The amount of information that will be revealed to these people will vary on who they are and their reason for acquiring the documents. If the caretaker of the documents does not find the reason stated by a requestor as valid, the caretaker has the right to not accept the request.

A divorce file is a compilation of vital details regarding the outcome of a divorce case. It reveals the name of the husband and the wife, their address, when they were born and how old they are, and the names of their parents, amongst others. It also reveals the terms and conditions of a divorce case according to the presiding judge such as matters on child custody and division of assets and liabilities.

The documents can also be acquired to certain websites that have the consent of the government to keep and supply them to the public. There are many of such websites but, sadly, not all of them are reliable sources. There are websites that just want to take advantage of innocent people. To avoid getting victimized by the fake ones, requestors are encouraged to conduct a background check on the websites first to collect as many information as they can about them until they can determine if that website is real or not.

If you are looking for Divorce Court Records, you can get them at a county Clerk of Superior Court. To get access, you must have the consent of the owner of the records and that of the court. The court has the right to deny access if deemed fit and the right to punish requestors if the records are used inappropriately such as to defame, to blackmail or to harass others.




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