Friday, 9 May 2014

Arizona Free Divorce Records

By Ben Kingsley


The files for a Divorce in Arizona are kept at a county Clerk of Court that granted the divorce. If you wish to retrieve them, you must know which county they are stored. If you do not have any knowledge of which, you can head to the state's Vital Records Office and they will help you find the correct county. The county Clerk of Court accepts requests. If you head to their office personally, you will get the files in about two hours, but if you choose to mail or fax your request, you will have to wait two to three weeks before you get the results.

It is important that you get a copy of a divorce file especially if it is your own record and you wish to go through marriage again at a later time in your life. A Clerk of Court is also the office in-charge of issuing a marriage license and they will not give it to you if they find out that you have been involved in another marriage in the past unless you provide a divorce file to prove that your previous marriage is legally over. And when you find the person that you will marry, make sure that they do not have any pending divorce case so that you would not have any troubles with the law. You can do the process of checking their marital history secretly so that you cannot cause discomfort to your future partner.

If you want to place a request, you should at least have knowledge of the name of the owner of the document you want to get. It is also good if you can provide more details aside from the name so that the process will not be lengthy. Check the accuracy of the details you are providing so that the correct document will be given to you.

When you receive the files that you requested for, check if the divorce certificate and the divorce decree are there. A divorce certificate is a file that contains some basic details like the names of the ex-husband and ex-wife, their address, and when and where the divorce took place. A divorce decree, on the other hand, contains sensitive pieces of information that are not given to just anyone except to the spouses, their attorneys, and those that have the consent of the court. The decree includes details about the child custody, visitation rights, distribution of assets and debts, and the likes. Unless these issues are settled, a decree will not be finalized.

You can also get the records from online search tools. There are free search tools and paid search tools. Regardless of what kind of search tool you are going to use, you will be provided with the basic details of a divorce document that resembles what a divorce certificate contains.

Are Divorce Records Public? Yes, they are. Any person can submit a request for the records to the appropriate government office in-charge of maintaining them. A divorce that is granted in a certain county or state is and will be accepted in all the other states. Although they are open to public, there are laws that protect the privacy of the owner of the records. The records cannot be used to defame, embarrass, blackmail, and damage the reputation of a person. Anyone caught violating will be punished accordingly.




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