New Hampshire Revised Statutes 5-C:92 – Amending or Correcting a Certificate of Marriage
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I. Within 6 months of the filing of the marriage registration, corrections shall be made on the marriage record using the form indicated under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 5-C:85, I.
II. When a person makes application to amend or correct a marriage record, the clerk of the city or town who issued the marriage license shall be paid the application fee required of the applicant by N.H. Rev. Stat. § 5-C:10, unless the correction is due to an error by the clerk.
III. Other than minor corrections in spelling or clerical errors, name changes involving the name of a spouse as listed on a marriage certificate shall be made as follows: a certified copy of the court order from a court of competent jurisdiction changing the name shall be obtained by the applicant; the court order shall be presented to the clerk of the town or city who issued the marriage license; the name change shall be shown with the notation A.K.A.; there shall be a notation on the marriage record which shall show the name of the court and the date of the court order; and shall be in accordance with N.H. Rev. Stat. § 5-C:90.
IV. When an applicant does not submit documentation to substantiate the need to amend a marriage record, or when the state registrar has reasonable cause to question the validity or adequacy of the applicant’s sworn statements or the documentary evidence, the state registrar shall notify the applicant, in writing of the deficiencies in the application. The state registrar shall notify the applicant, in writing, that the vital record shall not be amended unless the deficiencies are corrected and that the applicant has the right to appeal the registrar’s decision within 30 days.
V. The correction process as described above shall not apply to public records under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 5-C:105 unless it is shown that such a record is to be used for legal purposes or the registrant is still alive.
II. When a person makes application to amend or correct a marriage record, the clerk of the city or town who issued the marriage license shall be paid the application fee required of the applicant by N.H. Rev. Stat. § 5-C:10, unless the correction is due to an error by the clerk.
Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 5-C:92
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
- state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
- sworn: when applied to public officers required by the constitution to take oaths therein prescribed, shall refer to those oaths; when applied to other officers it shall mean sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties of their offices before a justice of the peace, or other person authorized to administer official oaths in such cases. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:25
III. Other than minor corrections in spelling or clerical errors, name changes involving the name of a spouse as listed on a marriage certificate shall be made as follows: a certified copy of the court order from a court of competent jurisdiction changing the name shall be obtained by the applicant; the court order shall be presented to the clerk of the town or city who issued the marriage license; the name change shall be shown with the notation A.K.A.; there shall be a notation on the marriage record which shall show the name of the court and the date of the court order; and shall be in accordance with N.H. Rev. Stat. § 5-C:90.
IV. When an applicant does not submit documentation to substantiate the need to amend a marriage record, or when the state registrar has reasonable cause to question the validity or adequacy of the applicant’s sworn statements or the documentary evidence, the state registrar shall notify the applicant, in writing of the deficiencies in the application. The state registrar shall notify the applicant, in writing, that the vital record shall not be amended unless the deficiencies are corrected and that the applicant has the right to appeal the registrar’s decision within 30 days.
V. The correction process as described above shall not apply to public records under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 5-C:105 unless it is shown that such a record is to be used for legal purposes or the registrant is still alive.