Public Harris County Divorce Records

To understand the importance of divorce records like Harris County Divorce Records, one must first understand the importance of divorce, and one could not understand the importance of divorce until one could understand the importance of marriage. Marriage is supposed to be something that would last forever, but for one reason or another, marriages do fail, but the married couple could not just go their separate ways because they had mutually decided upon the same. It must be remembered that there are always three parties to the marriage from a purely secular point of view, and that would be the bride, the groom, and the state. As the intervention of the state is necessary for a marriage to be completed, it is but logical that the intervention of the state is also necessary for that same marriage to be dissolved.

Divorce is one of the few things that could dissolve a marriage, and it would have effects that would be binding upon the whole word, or rather, the fact that divorce is something that would dissolve the marriage that have binding effects upon the whole world would require that that which would dissolve the same also have the intervention of the government. Marriage gives the married couple certain rights and responsibilities that would be binding upon the whole world, thus, when the marriage is dissolved, these rights and responsibilities are taken from the formerly married couple and what they had before they were married is restored to them.

As the official records of the government in regards to the fact of the divorce, these records are the best evidence that one could present in order to prove the fact of the divorce. This means that these records are given the presumption of regularity, a presumption that means that the contents of the records are presumed to be true and accurate at all times, though note that the presumption applies only if the records in question were obtained from the proper sources, hence, while the party presenting the records would have no obligation to prove that the contents of the records are true, they may still be asked to prove that they had obtained the records from the proper sources.

A request for copies of the records in question could be done at the local level and this is where most requests for copies of the records are made. The method for making the request would depend on the office where the request would be made, but it would usually be through the mail or in person, with some offices actually capable of receiving request using either method. The person making the request would have to make the decision as to which method to use depending on the circumstances that he or she would find themselves in.

Divorce Records Harris County may also be found online through the use of online databases, though note that most of these online databases are privately owned, hence, any and all information that could be obtained through them could not be given the presumption of regularity.