Ohio Public Divorce Records

By Ben Kingsley


If you want to get your hands on a document about a certain Divorce in Ohio, you may do so by submitting a formal request to the Ohio Health Department. The department maintains documents of divorces that have been filed since 1954 until today. However, they are not authorized to provide a divorce decree. Handing out of divorce decrees is the task of the Clerk of Courts of each of the counties in Ohio. If you do not know which county to search for the documents, you may refer to the Health Department and you will be assisted in finding the correct county.

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.

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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