Divorce Certificate Translation
The decree translated in full: the parties, the date and place of dissolution, the grounds where they are recorded, and the terms on property, support and custody. A petition usually needs the whole order rather than the first page. From $54 per document.
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What a Certified Divorce Decree Translation Covers
An officer reading a divorce decree is looking for the date the marriage ended and confirmation that the order is final, so both are translated in the position the court put them. Terms about children and support are translated as ordered.
What the translation covers
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The Parties: both names as the decree records them, including any former name, with the dates of birth where the court included them.
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The Order: the date of the decree, the court that issued it, the case number and the name of the judge, all as printed.
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Finality: whether the decree is final or interim is translated explicitly, since a petition filed on an interim order is a petition filed too early.
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The Terms: property division, support and custody arrangements are translated where the decree sets them out, without summarizing the clauses.
Before you order
A divorce is one document among several, and which one is wanted depends on the filing.
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Decree or Certificate: some countries issue a short certificate of divorce and a longer decree, and a petition may need both of them.
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Remarriage: a clerk registering a new marriage wants the date the earlier one ended, which is why the finality line is translated rather than implied.
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Prior Marriages: more than one earlier marriage means more than one decree, and they are translated as a set so the dates run in sequence.
Send the page carrying the court's seal, and the page with the terms if the two are separate.
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From a Decree to a Petition Exhibit
The order is read for its date and its finality first, then translated in full.
Send the sealed pages
Photograph the decree with the court seal visible, and add the terms pages if the court issued them apart.
- The decree and the court seal
- Any certificate of divorce
- The petition reference
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Receive the order in sequence
The decree comes back in the court's own order, so the operative date sits where the reader expects to find it.
- The decree in court order
- Signed translator statement
- Terms translated without summary
Documents Filed With a Divorce Decree
Marriage Certificate
The marriage certificate, which fixes when the marriage being dissolved began.
Birth Certificate
A birth certificate for each child named in a custody term.
Court Documents
Court orders and judgments of other kinds, on the court page.
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What our clients say
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Frequently asked questions
DHCTranslations translates divorce decrees and dissolution certificates from a New York base for USCIS petitions, remarriage and pension claims, and returns a certified PDF with a signed translator statement.
A decree of up to 400 words is $54 at DHCTranslations, and a judgment with terms attached is charged at $0.12 per word into English past that point. The page count is stated in the quote before payment.
For a petition, yes. An officer needs the date the marriage ended and the terms that follow from it, and a page missing from the order is the page that gets the filing returned.
USCIS requires a complete translation with a signed statement under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3), and DHCTranslations documents have been filed with USCIS in support of petitions. The decision belongs to the officer reading it.
Yes, and it is translated in the court's own words. An interim order and a final decree are not the same document, and a petition filed on the interim one is filed before the marriage has ended.
The decree is the court's order and carries the terms, while the certificate is a short record that the divorce took place. Some countries issue only one of them, and a petition may ask for both.
It can, and the clerk will want the date the earlier marriage ended. That date is translated as the court recorded it rather than as the date of the hearing.
No. The document is translated from the language it is written in, and a term referring to a local procedure is explained in a note rather than given a literal English word.
A short decree approved before 4pm ET is usually returned the same day, and a judgment with terms takes about one business day. The date in the quote is an estimate, confirmed per order.
Usually yes, since the petition has to show the marriage existed before it ended. The marriage certificate page covers that document, and the two are normally filed together.
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