I thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you. You can find me at, or you can call my office at (405) 888-5400. Once more, I’m Ty Smith, an Oklahoma divorce attorney with Wirth Law. If you have any questions regarding marriage as far as dissolution of marriage, or really anything family law related, I can answer this question, would love to speak to you about those things. So if one state says you’re divorced and issues a decree saying as much, then it’s got to be respected. This is the top of the law, the Constitution, that says as much. Or unless that court maybe, I don’t know, that court that issued it maybe lacked jurisdiction over the case.Įven if the state disagrees necessarily with what the judge ordered, they still, do to the Full Faith and Credit Clause, have to respect it. And I’m going to quote here, so forgive me if I’m looking off-screen: “The public court’s records and judicial proceedings of every other state.” Okay? So barring some exceptional circumstance that makes it to where it’s not in the state’s best interest to respect another state’s court orders or things like that. Due to what’s called the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution, which is Article IV, Section 1, it says that states have to respect the public court’s records. Video Transcript: Is my divorce decree going to be respected across state lines? Hi, I’m Ty Smith, an OKC lawyer with Wirth Law.Īnd this is an important one because there’s a misconception out there that potentially because I got a divorce in Oklahoma, it might not be fully respected in Texas or Kansas, or the divorce decree won’t be respected in those states. The Public Records Online Directory is a Portal to those Tax Assessors, Treasurers and Recorders offices that have.
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