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Does a government really need a database of marriages? IRS is the only agency I can think of, but they probably don’t need to put it in a database. I’m probably
by onionisafruit 3y ago
Does a government really need a database of marriages? IRS is the only agency I can think of, but they probably don’t need to put it in a database. I’m probably missing something though.
- krisoft 3y agoSure. They need the info for handling inheritance, to handle disputes around divorces and also for rights around medical information and decision making when one is incapacitated. Probably there are other reasons too.
- onionisafruit 3y agoI’ve been through all of those except the divorce, and I don’t think any of them involved a government database. It was all done with documents I provided.
- irrational 3y agoThose were government documents, right? I assume if they were lost or destroyed, the government would need to go to a database to recreate them.
- onionisafruit 3y agoIf your marriage license is lost or destroyed you request a copy of the original from the county where you were married. A clerk finds the license and makes copies to send you. Some counties make have digitized this.