Ohio Public Divorce Records

Publié par Unknown on lundi 11 novembre 2013

By Ben Kingsley


The Ohio Health Department is the office tasked to preserve the records of Divorce in Ohio. They accept requests for the records but they only keep an index of divorce cases that were filed from 1954 to the present date. If you are looking for divorce decrees, you can go to the specific county Clerk of Court that is in-charge of maintaining the records you want to request for. If you are not aware which county the records can be found, you can ask the Health Department.

A website is maintained by the Health Department and divorce files are stored on their database, which they update on a regular basis. You can secure a request form for divorce files by downloading it from their website. The form must be completed appropriately. Failure to do so will result to your request to be denied by the department. The form should is to be submitted along with other requirements which are specified by the specific county that has the files. You also have to pay a certain amount for the files. Payments are to be done only by money order or by check. The payment will not be given back to you even if the requested files are not found.

Divorce documents serve as a proof of the official end of a marriage. If a man or a woman has gone through divorce in the past, a divorce document must be presented if he or she wishes to marry again in the future. They can also be used in the division of assets and liabilities, claiming of properties, child custody arrangements, and others.

To commence a search, you must provide the full name of the owner of the divorce records you want to request for. Bear in mind that transactions in government agencies are usually lengthy. If you can supply more details about the owner of the records, the retrieval process will be a lot quicker.

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.

Some people ask the question Are Divorce Records Public because they are not aware that the files are readily available for the public's perusal. The public is empowered by the government to access public files but must observed certain guidelines. For example, the government does not tolerate the misuse of the files and will punish individuals or parties that will not follow the guidelines. And if the files that you want to access is not under you name, you will not be able to view or access the entire file because some of the information included on it are considered classified. Classified pieces of information are kept in private to preserve the privacy of its owners. However, you will get a verification that will reveal vital pieces of information that are enough to prove the validity of a divorce.




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