If Someone Gets Married In Another Country, Will There Be A Record In The Uk?

[Kiki-frog]

This question follows on from a thread I started a while back:

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Law/Question1300276.html

I had some really helpful advice from the AB folk, thank you. We've kept in regular correpondence with the debt collecting agency, who have actually been quite nice to deal with, and have spoken to CAB (who weren't that helpful, to be honest) and we've now hired a private investigator to try to track down the whereabouts of OH's (now remarried) ex-wife.

The PI is having a hell of a job trying to find ex-wife, but has unearthed a whole load of county court judgements against her (which Mr Frog was totally oblivious of!), but no new married name and no new address. We know that she's remarried, but there's a fair chance that this might have been overseas.

Does anyone know if such a marriage might be recorded by GRO here?

Thanks for any help you can give.

[Buenchico]

There is no legal requirement to have an overseas marriage formally recorded in the UK. Up until the end of last year people could choose to deposit their overseas marriage certificate with the GRO. (It's now longer possible). However it's unlikely that the majority of people actually did so.

[Kiki-frog]

Oh dear, I suspected that was the case, but really hoped it wasn't. Thanks, buenchico, you've been really helpful in this. x

[Old_Geezer]

I don't think the UK would set itself up as the keeper of records for marriages the whole world over. There would only be a record if the information was needed for some reason.

Best of luck with your search. If you can trace where she may have moved to on leaving the UK then you have a starting point for looking at the records there, and so on and so forth.

[wolf63]

If the ex has an unusual name it might be worth trying to Google her name and see if anything pops out.

Do you know the details of any of her relatives - if so try Google and Facebook to see if you can track her using this.

She might also have school friends who are on Facebook and they might have her listed as a friend.

Good luck

[Kiki-frog]

Thanks for your replies, everyone. That really is much appreciated.

Our problem is that we know ex-wife has remarried, and that she and new hubby are both British citizens, but we think they probably went abroad to get married. Although they are definitely both living in the UK now, in the West Midlands.

I was hoping that there might be some sort of record here in order to make the marriage legal in the UK, but looks like there won't be.

The private investigator has certainly got a challenge on his hands. With numerous CCJs against her, it looks like she really doesn't want to be found.
:-(

[tamborine]

All citizens can be traced by their Nat Ins number & if she claims DHSS they will be interested.