A divorce certificate is a legal document which is issued by the civil authority, generally, a court, attesting the dissolution of a marriage. It is indeed the official witness that shows that a marriage has dissolved legally. In this document are contained the main elements of which the parties’ names, the divorce date, the grounds of the divorce (if there are), the custody of the children, the spousal support and the division of the property, are not excluded.
The divorce certificate is one of the certification documents, which goes through the procedure of its confirmation. It may even be critical when the divorcee must produce the certificate in a place away from the locality of divorce or when he/she requires it for official purposes such as immigration, remarriage of financial transactions. Attestation is a way that the document is acknowledged and certified by the authorities as an officially recognized legal bond.
Some countries indicate divorce certificate attestation as a part of the procedure for certain international purposes. For example, the marriage certificate attestation of a foreign country is often the only way to prove that the name was changed in a second marriage due to the divorce. A significant advantage of this divorce certificate attestation is that it is a means to validate the applicant’s single status. The candidate is required to receive the attestation from the relevant embassy or consulate. This is the case with every foreign embassy. That is, they have a system to verify things. The validity of the Attestation may be debatable depending on the issuing country.
