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Has he ever been married? |
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| Question: How can I
find out if a person is married or has ever
been married? |
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lot of work. There are no central marriage or divorce repositories
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marriages are recorded at county level. You can almost always find
them there -- if the county has it's own recorder or clerk and
maintains its own records. Many smaller counties combine record
keeping with other counties to save money. In some states records
are maintained at state level, but some of those are not open to the
public. New York State, in its infinite wisdom has locked up all
marriage records to honest, law abiding citizens, without a court
order at all levels (state, county, city). However, in New York
State, you can always get to see your own marriage record if you can
prove who you are, using among other methods, your prison ID
bracelet or a letter from your parole officer. (I'm paraphrasing
this from memory.) Talk about the inmates taking over the asylum!! |
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| Of course
you could try to limit your search to places where the bride and
groom resided, but that poses a serious risk of something falling
through the cracks. For example, neither my wife nor I ever lived
within 100 miles of Corpus Christi, TX, yet that is where we were
married. |
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| Looking for
a divorce can be somewhat easier, because divorces normally take
place where at least one of the parties resided -- but, that is
often not the case. People come to Nevada to get a divorce after
"establishing residence" here. I won't even discuss the
question of whether the divorced person was really a resident for
the required 6 weeks. Lets assume that they were. If the they stayed
in a hotel during that time, it is unlikely that there would be any
trace of the Nevada residency. |
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| Certain
proprietary databases, including credit reports, which are illegal
to access without a legitimate reason, often contain information
that links a husband and wife. However, much of that kind of data is
inaccurate. |
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Given a specific set of conditions there may be a far
easier solution. I suggest you contact a PI and lay it out in detail.
It is not something that should be attempted by laymen.
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