Not every Florida county has online public records yet, but quite a few do. The amount of information you’ll find on the county clerk of the court websites varies from full case listings to merely indexes that leave you tantalized and wanting more. To get more, of course, you have to make the trip to the court house in person.

Alternately, you can choose to use a reputable public records search service like www.inforegistry.com and Gov-Resources to find your records for you and deliver them to you on your computer. These kinds of services are a more cost-effective and time-saving approach for people who either need a lot of records (and don’t want to pay outrageous copy fees to the court for them) or live too far away from the county where the record they want is located (and don’t want to take the time to drive there).

Both www.inforegistry.com and Gov-Resources have millions of Florida public criminal records available in their databases, as well as a comparable number of birth, death, marriage, divorce, and other types of public records. Therefore, the chances of these services having exactly what you’re looking for is extremely high.

Make sure you know all about the past of anyone you’re involved with, either on a personal or professional basis. Look them up in the Florida public criminal records. You may find nothing at all, and if so, great! That means there’s nothing to worry about with that person, at least as far as a criminal history goes. However, if you find a record of something that person never told you about, then you have the information you need to decide how you’ll proceed with your relationship with him or her. Be informed and protect yourself with knowledge.

Florida divorce records are maintained by each individual county. Therefore, in order to obtain these records, you must go to the court house in the county in which the divorce occurred. If divorce proceedings began in one county, but ended in another, then the county in which the final divorce decree was granted will be the place where you’ll find the record. You’ll want to go to the main county court house and head for the civil records section to find what you want.

Unlike other records, Florida does not allow the full text of divorce documents to be made available online. You can usually find an index to the divorce on the county’s clerk of the court website, but you’ll need to go there in person to get the whole thing.

In most cases, Florida divorce records are available at the court house as soon as the divorce is finalized. After 60 days, a copy of the record is sent to the Office of Vital Statistics in Jacksonville. Once the Office of Vital Statistics has a record, you can order it directly from there, in writing. The cost is $5 per divorce record, and $4 each for additional copies of the same record. Anyone can order a divorce record in Florida–you don’t have to be named in the record or related to anyone named in it.

You’ll need to include the name of the husband in the divorce case in your request letter, since these records are indexed under the husband’s name. You should include as much additional information about the divorce as you have, including the wife’s name and maiden name, the date of the divorce, and the county in which it occurred. Be sure to include your own name, mailing address, and telephone number in your request.

You can write to the Office of Vital Statistics at the following address:

Office of Vital Statistics

Attn: Customer Services

Post Office Box 210

Jacksonville, FL 32231-0042

The Office of Vital Statistics has divorce records from June 6, 1927 to the present. For records that are older than that, you’ll have to deal strictly with the county in which the event took place. The maximum age of divorce records you may be able to find will vary by county, with some counties keeping records going all the way back to the 1850′s, while others may only have records from the early 1900′s.

Florida counties also keep copies of divorce records that have been sent to the Office of Vital Statistics, so you can always go to the county for any record, no matter when the divorce was granted. Each county charges its own particular fees for copies, which may be more or less than what you’d pay to the Office of Vital Statistics. Remember, Florida divorce records are considered public records, so you’re entitled to a copy, no matter who you are. If any court clerk tells you otherwise, ask to speak to their supervisor, and you’ll soon get the record you need.

You can also find divorce records online through record search services. These are convenient, cost-effective options for many people, especially if you have a lot of records you need to look up, or don’t want to take the time to drive to a distant court house.

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