How to find out if a marriage is registered


How to check if a marriage is registered in the registry office?


Today there are many different online services that guarantee the provision of data about a specific person.
They often provide services for a fee. But experts do not recommend contacting such companies, since they do not provide official information.

Moreover, their actions are illegal, since the information is not completely open, and access to the database is not provided to commercial structures.

That is, after receiving the money, they may provide incorrect information, so it is best to contact the registry office specialists directly.

If you want to clarify the information, you must do the following:

  • contact the registry office;
  • provide a passport and fill out an application;
  • provide a power of attorney if necessary;
  • pay the state fee.

There are several forms of response:

  • certificate F-35, indicating that the citizen is in a registered marriage;
  • divorce certificate;
  • divorce certificate.

Whether a person is married - is there an official way to find out?

You, as an intelligent person, want to find out whether your boyfriend, girlfriend or relative is officially married. Did you know that according to statistics, 35% of men hide their marital status when meeting people? Interesting fact. Many registry offices and archive buildings were destroyed in the post-war period and now it is extremely difficult to find out when and with whom our parents and other relatives were married.

Never trust online services or databases that promise to find information about a person. As a rule, these are scammers. In Russia, this information is secret and it is prohibited to make it publicly available. Therefore, sites that promise to provide you with information about divorce simply take money from gullible citizens. They can give any answer, but it has nothing to do with the real state of affairs.

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How to find out which registry office the marriage was registered in?

  • in passport;
  • on the marriage certificate;
  • through a notary.

The notary has the right to send requests to the registry office archive. However, the service is paid.

If the applicant is a relative of someone about whom you need to obtain information, then you can independently come to the registry office to obtain data.

Since the database has not yet been combined between all civil registry offices, you will have to wait.

Within 30 days, a request is sent to the registry office archive, and it, in turn, requests data from the department where the relationship was supposedly registered. If the answer is positive, the final authority transmits the answer to the archive, and it sends it to the registry office where the applicant applied.

Typically, this information is necessary when resolving inheritance disputes or to invalidate a new marriage. Sometimes, if you lose your passport, the relationship registration stamp is not restored. When applying to the registry office to apply for marriage, it is considered that the citizen is acting consciously. In addition, he indicates in the document that there are no reasons for refusing to accept it. According to current legislation, it is prohibited to enter into a new marriage until the old one ends. Knowing where and when a citizen registered a marriage for the first time and whether he was divorced after that, one can understand the legitimacy of the second marriage.

But how can you restore your marriage certificate without getting lost?


A reminder about who can be issued a second marriage registration certificate.
First, you need to check whether this service is electronic.

How not to waste time searching for the right service? Just follow the following instructions. It will help save your time.

Step 1

We go to the State Services website and go through a quick registration. Finding the “register” button is very simple.

Step 2

  • Fill in the required fields.
  • Enter your last name, first name and patronymic.
  • We indicate your mobile phone and email.
  • All this data is necessary in order to access the State Services website.
  • If you think that your data might fall into the wrong hands, then you don't need to worry. This site is government owned. And your data will not fall into the hands of attackers.

Step 3

You need to go to the “main” page of State Services.

Step 4

open the “services” section.

Step 5

You will then see a field that says “enter the name of the service or department.” You need to hover your cursor over it and click.

Step 6

Then in this line we enter: “restoration of the marriage certificate.”

Step 7

Select the “services” section again

Step 8

Then you need to select: “issuance of a repeated certificate/certificate of state registration of marriage.”

Step 9

  • Then you can see a description of the service and how to obtain the service.
  • This service is non-electronic and cannot be obtained through State Services.

How to find out the date of marriage registration by the last name of the spouses?

Sometimes the applicant only has information about the first and last names of the spouses. If this person is an heir or a close relative, then you can obtain information about the date of registration of the relationship at the registry office. This process is similar to that described above. An interested person can contact any civil registry office or a notary. By writing an application, you can obtain this information in the manner prescribed by law.

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Choosing a registry office in your city

Future spouses can choose any civil registry office in their city . If they live in the area, they have the right to tie the knot in the city closest to their locality.

If there is no civil registry office in their area of ​​residence, they can contact local government bodies, which are often empowered to carry out marriage registration.

Choosing a registry office is a purely personal matter . Those who just want to sign or are not planning a lavish celebration usually contact the branch that is closer to home (for convenience).


If a wedding is an event that the newlyweds want to make the best in their lives, it is advisable for them to choose a wedding palace or a registry office branch that is in demand among residents of the locality.

There are nuances here: registration is made several months in advance, the establishment registers several couples at the same time - a stir is created in the halls, certain inconveniences arise, etc.

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The Wedding Palace is an establishment that is more suitable for holding a wedding ceremony, as it specializes only in this type of service.

How to determine which registry office your residential address belongs to?

To do this, type your residential address and the word “Registrar Office” into the search bar of your browser. The system will display the branches closest to you, and you can submit an application to one of them.

Procedure for obtaining documents

The only reliable way to obtain information about registered/dissolved marriages is to personally contact the civil registry office. This can only be done in person.

Algorithm for preparing a request:

  • submission of a handwritten application to the territorial branch of the registry office (you can contact not only the division where the union was registered, but any department);
  • provision of the necessary package of documents;
  • payment of state duty.

Sample application for a marriage certificate

To the Central Civil Registry Office of Kamyansk

from Krasnoperova Tamila Semenovna,

Born 02/12/1964, living: Kamyansk,

st. Prokofieva, 15a

In connection with the consideration of the paperwork on the inheritance of material assets, I ask you to provide a certificate of registration of the marriage of my father Sevastyanov Semyon Antonovich, who entered into a marriage on October 1, 1959 in the city of Kamyansk.

02/01/2019 T. S. Krasnoperova

Required documents

A citizen must have the following documents with him:

  • personal passport;
  • a copy of the personal document of the person whose marital status is of interest;
  • receipt of payment of state duty;
  • confirmation of the grounds for applying to the registry office (court decision to appoint guardianship, birth certificate).

Documents are submitted with originals and copies. This will speed up the process of accepting the application for consideration.

Payment of state duty

According to the provisions of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, the amount of state duty in 2021 is 200 rubles. To pay the fee, you will need to take the details of the territorial civil registry office where the applicant is applying.

Definition of a civil registry office division

When filing an appeal, it does not matter in which territorial department the marriage union was registered. The answer to the request is provided after analyzing the data on the territory of the Russian Federation. If you need to clarify the division of civil registry authorities, you can use the following methods:

  • submitting the appropriate application;
  • engaging a notary authorized to send requests on behalf of individuals to government agencies.

Request response form

The legislation provides for 3 forms of response to a request for information about a person’s marital status:

  1. A person is in a registered marriage - a certificate will be prepared in form No. 35. The document contains the full name of the citizen, the date of registration of the marriage relationship, the full name of the person with whom the marriage was registered, the number of the document on registration of the marriage relationship.
  2. Certificate of termination of marriage. The document is marked “copy” or “duplicate”. It all depends on who is requesting the document and for what purposes.
  3. Certificate of divorce.

Unexpected information from the registry office - what valuable information can you learn there?

Greetings, dear readers!

Today we’ll figure out what valuable things can be found in the civil registry office (civil registry office).

A little theory:

Civil registry offices immediately after the 1917 revolution replaced churches in registering births, marriages and deaths. The old procedure for maintaining these records was abolished by the decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR “On civil marriage, on children and on maintaining books of deeds” in December 1917.

I have already told you how registers of parishes were kept in churches before the revolution and what information we can find there. Now let's look at the registry offices.

What lies on the surface

Records of births, marriages, divorces, name changes, adoptions and deaths, of course, contain basic data:

Full name of the subject (child, bride-groom, deceased, etc.), date of the event, place of the event (where the child was born, where the marriage was, where the person died), information about relatives (for a child - about parents) or witnesses (for a marriage ).

This can be seen in any certificate - open yours and check.

But that's not all. If you dig deeper, it turns out that there is also information that civil registry office employees record, but they are not included in the certificates. And this could be invaluable data.

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What else can you find in the registry office

For example, let's take a Birth Certificate

. It basically contains the following information:

  • Full name, date and place of birth of the child;
  • Full name and citizenship of parents;
  • date of compilation and record number of the birth certificate;
  • place of state registration of birth;
  • date of issue of the birth certificate.

This is all clear. But each certificate is made on the basis of a birth certificate. And it already contains much more:

  • Full name, gender, date and place of birth of the child;
  • number of children born
    (one, twins or more children);
  • information about the document confirming the fact of the child’s birth;
  • Full name, date and place of birth, citizenship, nationality
    (optional), place of residence
    of parents
    ;
  • information about the document that is the basis for entering information about the father;
  • Full name and place of residence of the applicant
    or the name and legal address of the body or organization that declared the birth of the child;
  • series and number of the issued birth certificate.

I highlighted especially valuable data in bold: addresses, dates. That is, by examining the birth record of an ancestor, we will find the birth dates of his parents and their address.

The situation is similar with death records. The death certificate itself

contains very basic things. But the entry in the book is much more interesting. In it we will additionally find:

  • Full name, date and place of birth, gender, citizenship, nationality
    , date and place of death of the deceased;
  • cause of death (usually based on a medical certificate);
  • Full name and place of residence of the applicant
    or the name and legal address of the body, organization or institution that made the declaration of death (usually this is a close relative who deals with all organizational issues after the death of a relative);
  • Full name and place of residence
    of the person to whom the death certificate was issued.

Look at the bold font. Really, this is a completely different calico?

That is, by requesting a death certificate, you can find out the address of the place of residence and the name of the relative who registered the death. This is so helpful!

I will not go into the same detail about marriage and name change records. But both there and there you can find a good piece of unknown information about your relative.

How to get all this?

This information can be obtained by requesting an extract from the civil registry book or a birth certificate from the registry office.

True, depending on your luck, they may say everything, or they may not. And then you will have to beg and negotiate, proving your relationship and your right to receive this data. This also happens.

And don’t forget that the registry office issues everything only after paying the state fee (200 or 400 rubles in different cases). So first find out if the information is available and whether it will be issued, then go to Sberbank, pay the fee, return to the registry office - and the treasured certificate is in your hands!

Advice for beginners (you definitely didn't know this)

Information about a person’s birth will not be given to you just like that. Personal data law, you understand. BUT!

If you have in your hands a certificate (or certificate) of the death of this person, then the law on personal data no longer applies - and the death certificate will be issued calmly. Like the man died, why protect his personality?

So always start with death certificates. This is a reliable way.

And the second piece of advice for beginners. no less useful

If some kind of civil registration happened in your family in another city/region, do not despair. There is absolutely no need to go there.

Make a written request to the registry office of that locality with a request to send a copy of the certificate or certificate to the registry office convenient for you (be sure to indicate the address!). They have their own internal communication and will forward the document to the address you provide. All you have to do is pay the state fee and go pick up the paper.

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This is my grandmother's grave, which is located in Riga. My grandmother died there and my mother grew up there. Because my grandfather (a military man) served there after the war.

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Obtaining information for yourself

The legislation provides for cases of unilateral termination of marriage, so in practice it happens that one of the spouses does not take part in the divorce and does not know that the divorce was initiated by the second partner. Therefore, there are cases when it is advisable to independently prepare a request and clarify whether the marriage has been saved.

Was the divorce registered in the registry office?

Termination of marriage in the registry office without notifying the husband/wife is permitted:

  • recognition of a person as missing;
  • application of punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of more than 3 years.

In this case, you must submit a written application to the registry office where the family relationship was initially registered. You can send a request:

It takes from 10 to 30 days to process your request. The period will begin to count from the moment the state fee is paid and the receipt is submitted to the registry office. You will have to collect the answer in person.

Information about marital status by last name via the Internet

As noted above, there are many online resources on the Internet that offer, for a fee, to provide information about the marital status of any citizen of the Russian Federation. Using such services is highly discouraged, since it is illegal and does not guarantee the veracity of the data.

If the reason for the interest is related to personal circumstances, and not for the purpose of using official documents, then the following methods of identifying data are relevant:

  • communication with neighbors;
  • social network analysis;
  • familiarization with a person’s passport.

The government services website does not provide public access to data. Therefore, it will not be possible to submit an application remotely through the State Services portal.

Is it possible to find out a person’s marital status using passport data and via the Internet?

In life, sometimes situations arise when you are interested in one thing: how to find out whether a person was married or is still married? Of course, this issue is especially relevant for girls - statistics show that more than 30% of men hide their marital status. In addition, in recent years, there have been more and more high-profile stories related to polygamous scammers who shamelessly take advantage of the trust of women.

If you are on good terms with an acquaintance, friend, relative whose marital status interests you, then you can ask about the question that interests you directly. However, what should you do if you do not have this opportunity?

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How to find out whether a marriage is registered or not via the Internet

He's miserable, he's a fool. Torture, don't torture. As I understand it, he has an apartment. Surely in the property, since in another case there was no question of establishing the fact of the presence of a wife. Now he is probably in such a mental state that not a single notary will conduct a transaction with his housing. But even if it does, then the wife may appear later and calmly judge the deal in court. Because of his mental state.

Hard case. It is quite possible that they got married. At the moment, he has not been declared incompetent by the court, which means he can get married as soon as he can. It is quite possible that the process of finalizing a transaction for the purchase and sale of an apartment is currently underway, or the transaction has already been completed, and the documents are being registered with the Federal Reserve System. That's why they don't take it out anymore.

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In what case is a marriage considered dissolved?

Marriage (marital union) is a documented union of people (usually two), concluded to officially confirm the status of the family.

To register or terminate a marriage, you must send an application to the Civil Registry Office. The day of marriage or its dissolution is considered the date of entering information about such an event into the information registers of the civil registry office.

It is also possible to dissolve a marriage (if the parties have disagreements) through the courts . The day on which the court decision comes into force is considered the date of termination of the marriage union.

In addition to the above, registration of termination of a marriage is also carried out with the actual death of the wife or husband.

The civil registry office issues a certificate of divorce - this is the document that is the official confirmation of the termination of the marriage union. A citizen who has previously been married will not be able to enter into a new marriage without the above document until he submits this certificate to the civil registry office.

both have a certificate of divorce , but such a view on this issue is not correct. The fact of termination of the marriage union and the receipt of a confirming document do not have such a connection with each other.

You can learn more about the procedure for declaring a marriage invalid in our article.

How to find out if a marriage is registered

  • Based on a trusting relationship (you can just ask);
  • Familiarize yourself with the person’s passport (information about the marriage and its dissolution must be entered there);
  • Ask for a marriage certificate, on which, in case of divorce, a corresponding mark is made on the reverse side;
  • If the opponent refers to the lack of supporting documents, you can ask him to clarify the information using a standard request from the registry office by requesting the appropriate certificate.

By law, this information is considered confidential and is not given to persons who are not related to the divorced spouses. It is possible to find workarounds, although they have little to do with legislation.

Divorce certificate: how to restore

The loss of this document does not change your civil status , since all data regarding the marital status of citizens is recorded in special information systems of the civil registry office. Accordingly, if the need arises, the civil registry office has the right to provide not only data, but also duplicate documents. These include a divorce certificate.

Art. 9 Federal Law “On Acts of Civil Status” dated November 15, 1997 No. 143 regulates the procedure for the provision by civil registry offices of a duplicate of the requested document. This is possible if the original is damaged, lost, the form becomes dilapidated, or the document becomes unreadable. In this way, it is also possible to restore the marriage certificate.

Where to contact

An application for a duplicate must be submitted to the branch of the civil registry office where the marriage union was registered . The branch you need is in another city, and you don’t have the opportunity to travel there? You can solve the problem in the following ways:

  • Your legal representative has the right to contact the required branch with a notarized power of attorney ;
  • you yourself can submit an application for a duplicate to the department at your place of residence, but they won’t give you a duplicate certificate right away - you’ll have to wait until “your” department of the civil registry office makes the corresponding interdepartmental request to the department where the marriage was registered, receives a response and only After this procedure, he will provide you with a duplicate of the divorce certificate.

What information is contained in the document?

The marriage certificate has a special form approved by order of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation dated June 25, 2014. The document is printed by the Goznak factory on special stamp paper and has strict reporting. A blank marriage registration certificate is filled out and stamped by an employee of the registry office where the marriage takes place.

The certificate must contain the following information:

  1. Unique certificate number.
  2. Full name of each spouse before and after registration of marriage, their date and place of birth.
  3. Citizenship and nationality of the newlyweds.
  4. Date and place of marriage and issuance of the certificate.
  5. The date and number of the registration record - a kind of legal “record” of the fact of the registration that occurred. You can find the data in the column “what the record of the marriage document was made about.” You can find out more about what a sample marriage certificate looks like and where to look for its number here.
  6. Signature of the registry office employee.
  7. Seal of the institution. It must be included, otherwise the marriage certificate will not be considered valid.

Download a blank marriage certificate form with a stamp

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Below you will see a photo of a sample marriage certificate with a seal:

How to find out if a divorce has taken place

Unfortunately, you can only about yourself. In addition, if you are specifically interested in information about the possible termination of a marriage, this is only possible if you first provide the officials with a marriage certificate.

Civil registry offices, as well as judicial authorities, cannot disclose information about citizens to third parties - this is due to the protection of personal data .

Termination of a marriage union unilaterally by applying to the registry office is possible only in a number of cases when the second spouse:

  • has a prison sentence of more than three years;
  • considered missing;
  • declared dead.

Absence from the divorce proceedings for the above reasons gives rise to the right of the second spouse to subsequently clarify information about his own marital status. Along with an application for a duplicate document, he must be sent a marriage certificate, a passport, and also indicate why he was absent during the divorce proceedings.

Termination of a marriage in the event of disagreements or unilateral initiation of divorce proceedings is possible in court . The fact that the second spouse is absent from the trial is not important when making a final decision, nor is it possible to determine his whereabouts, but also in case of failure to appear even after receiving a summons.

That is, in order to find out about the possible termination of a marriage through the judicial authorities, you should send an application to the court located directly at the place of residence of the person who was the plaintiff.

Even after the relevant decision has been made, there is a certain period of time when the spouses are not yet considered officially divorced:

  • there may still be a one-month appeal period;
  • the court only sends an extract from this document to the civil registry office within 3 days after the decision enters into legal force.

Is it possible to find out a person's marital status via the Internet?

What can you do when it is not possible to ask directly about the issue of interest?

Of course, there is an option (just like the hero of some movie) to use the services of a private detective or detective , but this option will cost you a pretty penny. However, you can become a real detective yourself and try to conduct a personal investigation using the Internet .

IMPORTANT You can find a lot of data on the Internet, but only if the citizen you are interested in knows how to hide information and is very secretive, then finding the necessary data will be much more difficult, if not completely impossible.

So how can you find out a person’s marital status via the Internet? Searching for a person's marital status is possible through social networks . Nowadays, many sites, be it Vkontakte, or Facebook, or Odnoklassniki, allow you to search for people using certain parameters. Among other things, the vast majority of people indicate their marital status on social media pages.

How to Find out if a Person Is Married Or Not Via the Internet

Even if there is already a court decision on divorce, but no changes have been made to the registration book, the family continues to exist. The moment of receiving the divorce certificate also does not matter - it only serves as confirmation of the fact of divorce. One of the spouses may not have this document at all.

A more common reason for ending a marriage is a court decision. Going through the judicial divorce procedure is allowed without the presence of the defendant, while the other half ultimately not only does not know about the beginning of the process, but also about its results. In any case, the presence of a court decision is not yet a reason to consider the marriage dissolved.

Let's sum it up

You can only find out a person’s marital status using passport data about yourself—judicial authorities or civil registry offices simply will not disclose data to you from third parties. If you are still interested in the marital status of someone you know, we advise you to carefully study social networks - there are often corresponding marks or even confirming photographs.

We also advise you to study more detailed information about such a document as a marriage certificate.

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