Where to purchase your marriage license in California
CALIFORNIA MARRIAGE LICENSE
RIVERSIDE COUNTY-PALM SPRINGS INFORMATION
Riverside County
Clerk/Recorders Office 909-486-7000
MARRIAGE LICENSE...
To have your Marriage
Ceremony in the State of California, You must purchase a License
in this State.
In the State of California
Two Marriage License are offered.
Designated County
Clerks Office issues the Licenses. @ Riverside, Santa Barbara,
Los Angeles, San Diego,
Ventura etc,etc,etc.
To many Counties in California to name.
The couple MUST be
over 18 .
The two marriage
licenses offered. Regular and Confidential
Both the Bride and
Groom Must apply together in person to obtain a marriage license week-days
from the county clerk.
Penny Goggans was the
first to be authorized by the Riverside County Clerk
to issue Marriage License
in the County of Riverside
We DO NOT
issue marriage licenses in the County of Riverside as of Jan. 1, 2004
The Regular Marriage
License is of public record and requires one Witness.
This license may
be purchased in one county and used in another county.
This License is Open
for public viewing and is published in newspapers.
All marriage licenses
are good for 90 days from the time of purchase.
The (so called)
Confidential Marriage License, (when couple is over 18 & living
together).
There are NO witnesses
required on this license.
This license is not
open for public viewing and it takes the Bride or the Groom or a
Court Order
to get a copy of
it. (This license was put on the Calif. law books over 100 years ago, for
reasons if children were
born out of wedlock no one could find out just when the couple
were married.)This marriage
is not a secret unless you wish it to be.
This license is Accepted
by all Churches (However some may frown on you living together)
Certified
Copies of the confidential Lic.Can be OBTAINED through the mail or in person
at the
County Clerks office , in the County where the marriage was performed.
This Confidential
license must be purchased and used in the same county.
THERE IS NO BLOOD TEST REQUIRED IN CALIFORNIA SINCE JAN.1995
Each County charges
different for these license.
Riverside
County Clerk is open Mon-Fri. 8:30am til 4:00pm
They charge
$68.00 for Regular License and $76.00 for the Confidential License.
Certified Copies
at this time are $13.00
Riverside County
Clerk/Recorders Office 909-486-7000
YOU
DO NOT HAVE TO BE A RESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
BOTH
LICENSE ARE LEGAL WORLD WIDE
760-328-0042
INSTRUCTIONS FOR
OBTAINING APOSTILLES OR EXEMPLIFIED COPIES
FOR USE IN A
FOREIGN COUNTRY
To apply for
an apostille or exemplified copy of a certified marriage license,
you must present
the California Secretary of State with the certified copy.
To obtain a certified
copy of your Confidential Marriage License
A notarized
copy of your license was given you by Penny Goggans.
Fill in and tear
off the bottom part and send the bottom part and $13.00
for each certified
copy you need to the Santa Barbara County Clerk.
Then send the
certified copy to the Secretary of State
The fee for the
apostille or exemplified copy is $20.00 for mail-in requests.
Please include
a cover letter and self-addressed stamped envelope when
mailing your
request to Sacramento, our California State Capitol.
Mail-in address
is:
Secretary
of State
Notary Public/Apostille/Authentification
P.O. BOX 942877
Sacramento, CA
94277-0001
Phone (916) 653-3595
Riverside County
Clerk/Recorders Office 909-486-7000
