Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Accessible Free Public Divorce Records Illinois

By Andrew Wolfe


Marriage divorces are a pricey and sometimes messy process, not to mention the toll it would have on the children. In the state of Illinois, these types of records are kept and maintained by the state department for statistics purposes. In any government or state agency, free searches on Illinois divorce records are not really available, but information pertaining to those records may be accessed through other means.

There are commercial information and record providers that offer their services for free, especially on basic divorce information searches. However, this is mostly for marketing purposes as they details that you normally find in free searches are merely to confirm the existence of the record. The website will be charging you for the complete details of the particular divorce documents you are trying to access. You can either pay a one time membership fee, or they can charge you as the information becomes available.

The most basic information that you usually find in divorce records are the names of the couple, and possibly the children, that is if they have kids. Certain details about the divorce are also present, such as when and where the divorce was filed, the reasons cited for filing the divorce, as well as the settlement agreed upon the divorce.

The Illinois divorce records are managed by the state's Vital Records Office, which is a division of the Illinois Department of Public Health. The office can verify, or deny, facts pertaining to records from 1962 up to the present, for a five dollar fee. Any existing records that took place earlier than 1962 can be found at the county circuit court clerk's office, where the filing of the said record took place. Certified copies of divorce documents, assuming it is on file, can be acquired at the circuit court clerk's office as well.

The State Archives office and the Illinois Department of Public Health office are good places to start your search if you want to find divorce documents as well as other divorce details. These offices may charge a small fee for processing purposes, so you should prepare for that, too. However, websites that offer similar services can be a good option as well. Some even offer them for free, to a certain extent, of course.

Nowadays, websites that provide information on divorce records are becoming quite useful. Many of these free-based information websites not only focus on a particular state, but on a nationwide level as well. Gathering these types of information can take up a huge amount of time and effort if they are acquired through state agencies, which is why most people prefer online research rather than going through the proper channels.




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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Divorce records are obtainable by anybody so long as the purpose is valid and justifiable. You don't need to go anywhere else because you can definitely possess such vital reports at home with the aid of modern computerization and the Internet.

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