Are Georgia marriage records public?
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Are Georgia marriage records public?
Marriage Records in the state of Georgia are generally considered to be public records. However, records of marriages rendered confidential by the couples involved are only available to authorized requestors.
Who can perform marriages in Georgia?
ยง 19-3-30 (c), Georgia provides authority to perform a marriage ceremony to “any judge, including judges of state and federal courts of record in this state, city recorder, magistrate, minister or other person of any religious society or sect.”
Can anyone be an officiant at a wedding?
Only religious marriage celebrants can choose to perform marriages in line with their religion. To identify as a religious marriage celebrant, you must be a minister of religion. They are authorised to marry people in line with the rites or customs of a religious organisation or body.
Can a minister have a wife?
Generally speaking, in modern Christianity, Protestant and some independent Catholic churches allow for ordained clergy to marry after ordination. However, in recent times, a few exceptional cases can be found in some Orthodox churches in which ordained clergy have been granted the right to marry after ordination.
