Marriage is something that is very pure. Immaterial of which particular culture you belong to, you would understand that marriage is a life long commitment and the unison of two souls together as one – until death do them apart. Sadly, marriage as an institution is no longer sanctified and in many unknown cases, one marriage has become the unison of more than two souls! Confusing? Well, simply put, marriage has become that institution where two people are married to each other and one of the spouses marry another while the previous is still alive!

This is a lot better because there are people who claim to be divorced and tie another knot to a new "love of their life" while in reality, that particular person would not be divorced! What makes such people tick or work is something that we are not going to look at here. We are not psychologists and we are not going to find out about why this behavior and why that behavior. What we can do though is to safe-guard ourselves or even safe-guard our loved ones.

Before tying the knot, it is imperative that you know everything there is to know about the other person. If you are about to tie the knot with a person from one of the first world countries, then you can be rest assured that finding the necessary information about that person is going to be quite simple. Currently all divorce records across any state in the US, Canada or any of the other developed nations have now been made public and can be accessed from anywhere in the world.

Since finding the documents about another person’s marital status is quite simple. You can actually have the satisfaction that you are going to be bound to a person who you know thoroughly. Such divorce records of the other person can either be accessed directly from the government’s database that is free or can be accessed through a commercial site that would charge a fee.

Many times, you would be madly in love with someone while there is a nagging feeling in the back of your head or this could be the case when someone you care for is engaged to someone who comes across as a shady person. In such cases, you can definitely get the divorce records of the person in question and prove your instincts right or wrong.