Legal Question in Family Law in Washington

Next of kin

when the spouse has died, how does the surviving spouse prove that they were married at the time of death?


Asked on 8/26/08, 2:52 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Christopher Steuart IT Forensics, Inc.

Re: Next of kin

A marriage certificate is a good start. Depending on what the question about the marriage is, there are sources of information that can be accessed that would verify certain information. E.g. if somebody asserted that the parties had divorced in WA, there are databases that allow one to find dissolutions filed by county. There are also genealogical databases which hold vast amounts of historical data from court records (from all over the world).

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Answered on 8/26/08, 11:17 pm


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