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New Marriage
Reporting System
The state’s new marriage reporting system will go into effect July 1, and a new three-part marriage record form will provide new information about Virginia newlyweds.
The new form will provide information about family structure, socio-economic data including race, along with education, existing martial status, and how many marriages for each of the parties, the State Department of Health’s Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics reported.
The director of the bureau said the courts and the legal, welfare and health professions increasingly need information on the social composition of the family.
When the new system, required by legislation passed by the latest session of the General Assembly, becomes operative, the bureau no longer will pay court clerks a ten-cent fee for each marriage record filed. It will furnish postage-paid envelopes to all such clerks, however, for forwarding all records of marriage, divorce and adoption each month.
And starting next January, a computer-printed index of marriage in each Virginia city and county will be sent every month by the bureau. At the end of the year, it will prepare a consolidated index for each city and county.
The simplified form ends the necessity for court clerks to hand-transcribe the information to a marriage register.
One of the three parts of the new form will go to the bureau in Richmond and another will remain with the clerk of the court as the official record. The third part constitutes the application for a marriage license.
Applicants must have all the required medical forms when they approach the clerk, along with parental consent if their ages require it.
Successful applications for a license will have 60 days in which to use it. The official at the wedding completes both copies of the marriage certificate and must return them within five days to the clerk of the court.
Certified copies of the license and certificate may be prepared either by the clerk of the court or the Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics.
The new law was sponsored by the Virginia Court Clerks Association with the cooperation of the State Department of Health.
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