Colorado Divorce Online Records - 2007 Divorce Law Changes
As a result, online access to the statewide database for Colorado dissolution of marriage (divorce), legal separation, and declaration of invalidity (annulment) records has ceased. Instead, given this interpretation, access to these Colorado divorce-related records requires proof (as do other Colorado vital records) of:
- an important family or legal-representative relationship by the requesting party, or
- a direct and tangible interest in the record.
(In accord with this new interpretation of Colorado law, Colorado's Office of the State Registrar of Vital Statistics has a new standard form to secure verification of dissolution of marriage and related records. Application includes submitting appropriate documentation of identity — regulations detail in exhaustive fashion acceptable forms of proof — and of the reason for requested access to these divorce records.)
This change to Colorado divorce online records access presumably arises from increasing concerns of potential misuse of information in divorce-related records, especially for purposes of identity theft.
Note: Records of Colorado dissolution of dissolution of marriage (divorce), legal separation, and declaration of invalidity (annulment) remain available directly from the clerk of the county or judicial district of the decree's issuance. As noted in other articles on our website blog (see, for example, Ain't Nobody's Business! Increased Privacy for Colorado Divorce Records), policies regarding public access to Colorado divorce records from the clerk's office vary by county or judicial district.
5 Comments:
I would have never thought that the bad guys would be so brazen as to access court records to gather information for identiy theft.
What a terrible thing that a family is suffering through a divorce and then to have the burden of having their credit ruined by vultures using this avenue for data mining to create fraud.
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Chuck, at 11:55 AM
I am certain that information was lifted out of my clients divorce file. Data only available in this file was later used during work related issues. Unbelievable.
Brian Raymond Callahan
Denver, Co
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Brian Callahan, at 3:18 PM
Now that was not what I was expecting - gotta love google.
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Maddy, at 11:58 PM
Unbelievable.
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Unknown, at 4:43 PM
If there's any part of life in which someone would want some privacy, it would be around divorce. It's already the 2nd most stressful event in human life, 2nd only to death of spouse or child.
Will Limon, Longmont, CO divorce counseling
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Unknown, at 3:53 PM
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