Va. Code Ann. § 20-16.1
Clerk authorized to amend marriage records
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Current — March 1, 2022
As of June 1, 2021
The clerk (i) may, on his own authority, correct marriage records established in his office by amending the same upon application under oath and submission of evidence deemed by the clerk to be adequate and sufficient and (ii) shall correct such records upon order of the court in which the marriage record was established. Upon correction of a marriage record the clerk shall forward to the State Registrar a certified copy of the corrected marriage record.
The clerk (i) may, on his own authority, correct marriage records established in his office by amending the same upon application under oath and submission of evidence deemed by the clerk to be adequate and sufficient and (ii) shall correct such records upon order of the court in which the marriage record was established. Upon correction of a marriage record the clerk shall forward to the State Registrar a certified copy of the corrected marriage record.
(1988, c. 54.)
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
License mandatory. - A court may not direct a circuit court clerk to issue marriage licenses retrospectively when marriages were not performed under a license of marriage. See opinion of Attorney General to The Honorable John T. Frey, Fairfax Circuit Court Clerk, 09-072, 2009 Va. AG LEXIS 50 (12/10/09).
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