Florida Statutes
Fla. Stat. § 741.10 (2025)
Proof of marriage where no certificate available.
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741.10 Proof of marriage where no certificate available.—When any marriage is or has been solemnized by any of the persons named in s. 741.07, and such person has not made a certificate thereof on the marriage license as required by s. 741.08, or when the marriage license has been lost, or when by reason of death or other cause the proper certificate cannot be obtained, the marriage may be proved by affidavit before any officer authorized to administer oaths made by two competent witnesses who were present and saw the marriage ceremony performed, which affidavit may be filed and recorded in the office of the county court judge or clerk of the circuit court from which the marriage license issued, with the same force and effect as in cases in which the proper certificate has been made, returned and recorded.
History.—s. 1, ch. 3126, 1879; RS 2059; GS 2578; RGS 3937; CGL 5856; s. 28, ch. 73-334; s. 1, ch. 74-372.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 2007–2010 · leading case: Hall v. MAAL
Hall v. MAAL (2010)
“See § 741.10, Fla. Stat. (2002). Section 741.”
Dressler v. Dressler (2007)
“She argued that, the original instrument being lost, she was entitled to follow the procedure established by section 741.10, Florida Statutes. The trial court denied the motion without prejudice to the parties to offer testimony on the subject of the lost certificate at trial.”
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