Monday, 11 November 2013

Ohio Free Divorce Records

By Ben Kingsley


If you want to locate the files of a Divorce in Ohio, you can place a request at the Ohio Health Department. Files of divorce cases that occurred from the year 1954 up to the present date are stored at their office. But although they keep divorce files, they do not have the power to provide divorce decrees to the public because only a county Clerk of Court can do so. For instance, you do not know which county the files can be located, you can ask for help from the Health Department.

The Health Department has an official website where they keep soft copies of public documents, including divorce documents, which they regularly update. There you can find a request form that you can download. You have to complete all the required fields on the form before you submit it back to the department. Failure to appropriately complete the form will result to your request to be rejected. There are certain requirements that you need to comply to get divorce documents. They will depend on which county you will be requesting them. There are also certain fees that you will be charged with. All fees are to be paid only by money order or by check. In case no document is found, no refund will be issued.

Divorce records are the legal papers that support the validity of a divorce. The records will be needed in case a divorced person decides to enter into another marriage in the near future. It is also a source of reference for the distribution of assets, properties and liabilities, arrangements of child rights, and more.

You cannot start a search if you do not know at least the name of the owner of the files that you want to access. Of course, providing more information will make the entire process speedier especially because it takes quite a while to retrieve them from government offices.

Divorce documents are also available online through certain service providers that specialize in providing the documents. There is no need to worry about legality of getting the records online because they are authorized by the court to do so. You just have to look for legit service providers because fake ones are also present. To get an idea if a service provider is legit or not, check its background and look for what other people are saying about them.

The public has the right to access public records. But Are Divorce Records Public? Of course, they are because they are deemed as part of public records. Despite the freedom to access divorce records, it is strictly prohibited by the government to wrongly use them. Anyone that is caught violating will be punished accordingly by the court. Also, if the records that you request for are not your own, you will not be able to view some details about it, specifically those that are deemed as confidential. Instead, you will be given a verification that will prove the validity of a divorce. Confidential details are not disclosed to the public so as to preserve the right to privacy of the owners of the records.




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