[Spunky]

I don't know who J E Meyers is at the link you provided. He/she doesn't claim to be a lawyer. He/she does say states differ. In my first posting I said I was only speaking for Washington State.

In none of the divorce forms or instructions do they ask for copies of birth certificates or marriage license. Just to be absolutely positive what I said was indeed fact since it has been quite awhile since I last did one of these, I called the Superior Court Clerk and she said they were not required.

Divorce documents are legal papers and if you lie about anything on them you would be committing perjury.

I was speaking from experience and the fact that my mother divorced my father back in 1955 and obviously she didn't have to provide birth certificates because she never had one for me nor my siblings in her possession. I had to send for a certified copy of my BC from the state of my birth in order to get SS.

DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE

Here is some more information. The page that everyone is wondering about that seems to be missing in Stanley Ann Dunham's divorce, could very well have been an order for protection. The courts seal these in order that the respondent does not know where the mother and child are living.

[Spunky]

I don’t know how that one paragraph turned out red in my above posting, because I never did an HTML formating to make it so. PUZZLED!

[Fred Nerks]

thanks, very useful information...but the link ‘Dissolution of Marriage’ didn’t work for me.