by Ben Dave

Divorce can be viewed as the legal process of nullifying the marriage vows of two persons. For those nations where this kind of decree is being applied, it is processed at county courthouses or the like. This undertaking usually entails a legal hearing presided by a court judge. Upon the closure of the divorce proceedings, the records are submitted to the local designated office for filing and subsequent posting to other government agencies.

A recommended approach to gathering information is to start at the state level to find out what kind of information is available and with which government office; county, district or city. The Vital Statistics Office under the Ohio Department of Health is the state repository for vital Free Divorce Records of Ohio. Abstracts of Ohio divorce records are filed there. The public can search for them by mailing in a written request.

The Ohio Department of Health can only provide abstracts of divorces that occurred in the state of Ohio from January 1, 1954 to the present. Divorce abstracts are brief forms that list brief information that are extracted from the original divorce decrees. However, the original divorce records can be traced through them to their respective Clerk of the Court’s office it was granted.

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