You Can Find Out If Your New Partner Is Legally Married

Finding out if someone is legally married is not as easy as it may seem. Although marriage is an important event in someone’s life and marriage records are public information, you won’t be able to get access to this information easily. That’s because getting access to someone’s marriage records is a complicated bureaucratic matter.

Whether you want to make sure your current partner is telling the truth about their past or the present or you need to do a premarital background check to draft a prenuptial agreement, there are several ways that can help you find out the truth. Marriages can’t be easily erased from someone’s life. It’s enough to follow the traces and you will get your answer.

1. Start with the obvious – the marriage records

Finding someone’s marriage record is the best way to prove that someone is or has been legally married before. It’s an irrefutable act and all you need to settle this matter. However, as expected, this is also the hardest document to get.

You need to know specific information before following this path. Otherwise, your efforts will be in vain. You should at least know the pre-marriage name of one of the spouses and where did the marriage supposedly take place. It would be perfect if you also knew when the marriage took place or at least an approximate time range.

And this is not the hardest part! There are certain states, like Virginia and New York, where the only person that can request the access to the marriage record can be one of the spouses. And this leads us to the second, more practical way to find out if someone is legally married.

2. Contact a private investigator and let them do the work

This practical, clean and comfortable way will help you find all the information you need without doing nothing except hiring the private investigator. They have access to various databases and can easily find out numerous things about a person’s past, like:

• Previous residences

• Past partners or spouses

• Former associates

• Past owned properties

• Past owned cars

• Other names

These will provide numerous clues as to whether the person has owned anything (properties, cars) jointly with a spouse and if they have changed their names in the past.

3. Follow the crumbles left behind by their relationships

Relationships tend to leave traces everywhere and it’s pretty hard to erase them, especially since the internet has such a great memory. If you want to find out if your new partner is legally married, you should also check for clues in:

• Social media profiles

• Wedding gift registries

• Local newspapers

These channels can give you access to precious information if you know where to look at. You can try looking for secret social media profiles by using the person’s image. This can easily be achieved with the ingenious Google images bar. You can also check out other people’s social media profiles who have close connections with the person you’re looking for.

Wedding registries are always a good idea in this case. If the wedding took place in the last 10 years, you have a shot to discover if they’ve been legally married by checking out wedding gift registries, such as Bed Bath and Beyond, Pottery Barn, Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, The Knot, Target, and Amazon.

Finally, the local newspaper announcements can also provide reliable information about the marital status of a person. It is harder to find out what you need this way but if you don’t have any other options left, it is worth a try. Or, you can just call a private investigator and have the matter solved in a matter of days or even less!