Should I Keep a Copy of My Divorce Paperwork
My question involves a marriage in the state of: Florida
I had a short marriage, less than 1 year, and less than 4 months after getting married I was hospitalized and shortly thereafter got a restraining order. For obvious reasons I want to excise this experience from my life. Do I really have to keep the divorce paperwork (and felony documentation, and abuse history documentation)?
We had no children, no home, no shared bank accounts. The only things we had were a junky boat (given to him, my name is definitely off) and items in storage in another state (given to me, already disposed of).
I really want to dump everything related to him but not if this is going to cause problems later. (BTW, he has been adhering to the restraining order, I've not seen nor heard from him since our last court date.)
Thanks in advance for your help.
Edited to add: we were divorced over a year ago.
Re: Do I Have to Keep the Paperwork
yes you should keep the paperwork.
the reason is that records search and matching systems are not always 100% complete, keep the peperwork in case you are in a situation where some institution, government or corporate, believes you are married because their system matched your marriage certificate record but did not match the divorce proceedings. and you need to show that you are not in fact still married.
Re: Do I Have to Keep the Paperwork
Ug. OK I was afraid of that. Do you think electronic copies would be sufficient?
And do you think I need to keep everything or just the final divorce decree (and of course the permanent RO)?
Thanks for your help.
Edited to add: "everything" means all the back and forth paperwork leading up to the divorce, documentation of the abuse, documentation of the stalking, documentation of his felonies against me, police reports, medical records, etc.