Online Santa Clara County Death Records
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The importance of death records like Santa Clara County Death Records and the reason why these records are being requested for by the public would best be understood when one understands the importance that death would play in the lives of not only those who are related to the deceased, but also upon the lives of those people who are not even aware of the existence of the deceased. Death is something that would affect the whole world as it is something that would alter the status not only of the person who had died, but the status, as well, of his properties around the world.
It is given that when a person dies, the properties that he or she had left behind do not become res nullius or owned by nobody. The properties are supposed to go into the possession of the heirs of the deceased or the people whom he had identified in his will, but one must remember that before such a transfer could occur, the will must first be probated or the heirs declared by the court. The primary requirement of such probate proceeding would be proof that the deceased had died, and because death is not something that courts could take judicial notice of, there is the need to prove the same.
The best way to prove the fact of the death would be through the use of the official records of the government, and those would be these death records. as the official records of the government in regards to the death of the deceased, these records are presumed to be true all the time, hence, the party presenting the records need not prove that the contents of the records are true, though they may be asked to prove that they had obtained the records from the proper sources. It must be noted that death records are not public records in the sense that the law identifies the people who could make the request for them, and only those people could make the request.
A request for copies of the death records may be done at the national or state level, and the method would be through mail. Indeed, the Vital Records Section could not actually entertain requests made in person. While a request made through mail would not require the person interested in the record to travel to the office where the records are located, such requests would take time because the office could only begin to process the request when they had received all the requirements necessary. For this reason, a request at this level would usually take anywhere between six to eight weeks, and the fee would be twenty one dollars per record.
Santa Clara County Death Certificates may also be requested for online through the use of online databases. These online databases are mostly privately owned, but the information that they contain would be substantially similar to that which may be found from the official archives, and they could present the information faster and more efficiently.
