CALIFORNIA AND ALTERED MARRIAGE FORMS: Lynn Gazis-Sax

'"California has a standard application form for marriage licenses, and if
it has been altered in any way, then it will not be registered and recorded. It will be sent back to the county of origin,' said Nicole Evans, spokeswoman for Kim Belshe, the California Health and Human Services secretary."

I should have thought of this. Quakers were actually running into this altered marriage license issue, at the time I got married (in a Quaker wedding), because some Meetings were submitting marriage licenses altered to not say that anyone was performing the wedding (because we believe that is done by God). There was an alternative to a marriage license, which could be used by Quakers, but a lot of the local recording offices didn't know about it (we had to get our state senator's office involved to convince our local office that, yes, we really could legally marry the way we intended, and there was even a special form for it). The law got simplified (as far as Quakers are concerned) that year, shortly after we married.
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