Soooo I have someone else’s marriage certificate. I still have my own, I just somehow was given someone else’s…what do I do with it?
I’m assuming I obtained it when Mrs. Cups and I got our own license a month ago, it must have been hidden in the copies we had made, and we only discovered it now. Do we mail it somewhere? Back to the courthouse? I don’t know the people who’s certificate I have. I’m really quite lost. Any suggestions or lawyers in the house?
I don’t know that you need to do anything with it. Presumably, if the people who it belongs to ever need it for legal purposes, they’ll realize that it’s missing and pay the $20 to get a copy from the county.
Phone the Registry Office, & ask.
Change your names and identity. Problem solved.
Has your wife seen it?
If not, hide it in a drawer and forget about it. Years from now when she discovers it and asks you about it, stutter and deny.
She discovered it!
Thank the lord the SS office took the copy of our license because the copy she grabbed was ours, but the real thing was this random one we’ve never seen before
It is not a great mystery, it’s just a copy, presumably, toss it.
Do this.
People in this thread are assuming that it’s a copy, but if a clerical error was made, it might be the original!
Original – this.
Copy – toss or shred if you usually shred.
It is absolutely the original. NOT a copy.
I’ll make the call.
Post results here.
I’ll have to wait til Monday to do it, the wait times on the call were too long for me to do it at work, but I’ll be more free on Monday.
I’ll update then
Just sell it on etsy.
I’d check the phone book to see if they live nearby and drop it in their mailbox with no explanation. Give them a great life mystery to ponder.
Are the names common at all? If so watch the paper for wedding announcements of someone with the same name. The surreptitiously crash the wedding waiting for the “…Or forever hold your peace” part. Then make your big dramatic soap opera reveal. “I have an Objection! This man/woman is already married! and I have the proof!”
Everybody will laugh and laugh.
My grandfather was a religious leader. He performed many marriages. When he passed, I went through his files… and found a huge pile of marriage licenses. I really did not have a clue as to whether they were duplicates or if he’d just never bothered to send them in or what. So, I tracked down the appropriate addresses of the appropriate court houses & mailed them all. Guess how many replies I got? Not one. I still have no idea why he’d have the paperwork or whether he was really supposed to have it. But, the important thing is that I no longer have it. One less box in the attic.
Anyone know what to do with 2000 sermons?
For some reason, sermons are especially flammable.
Leave them on a mount.
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