Searching Palm Beach County Divorce Records

To be sure, there are many reasons why a marriage would end, but there are only two ways that a marriage could be dissolved, and it is only through divorce that both of the parties would actually survive, because the only other way to end a marriage would be when one of the parties to the same would die, though such dissolution would be automatic, and divorce would not. That is the reason why there are records called divorce records of which Palm Beach County Divorce Records are an example. These are the official records of the divorce and as such, it is the best evidence that one could bring in order to prove that the divorce had really happened.

Of course, one may ask why there is a need to prove the divorce, and the answer to that would lie on the fact that divorce, just like marriage, would have impacts not only upon the parties to the divorce, but also upon the community as a whole, after all, divorce is something that affects the status of a person, though strictly speaking, divorce is not something that would alter the status of a person, rather, it would simply restore the status of the person to what it was before the marriage that is to be dissolved happened.

Before a person would search for divorce records, it must first be understood that divorce records are not public records in the sense that they could not be requested by just about anyone, though they do enjoy the presumption of regularity such that the mere existence of the divorce records would be taken by most jurisdictions as prima facie proof that the divorce had happened without a need to actually look into the records itself. This is the reason why it is sometimes enough that a person could show a certification that the divorce records exist in order to prove that the divorce had happened.

Copies of divorce records could be requested for at the state level through the Florida Department of Health Vital Records, and the procedure at this level would require the person who desires the record to write a request letter to the head of the vital records section. Note that the letter is a non-standard letter in format, but the same should contain the name of the parties to the divorce, the approximate date that it was granted, and the place where it was granted. Note that the date is important because it is an additional two dollars for every year that would be searched for a maximum of fifteen dollars. This would be in addition to the five dollar required fee which would include payment for one copy of the records or a certificate attesting that there are no records in the archives of the department.

One could also obtain copies of Palm Beach County Divorce Decrees online through the use of online databases. Although the information that could be obtained from these sources could not be used for official purposes, they are substantially the same as that in the official archives and sources.