Opinion No.

The Honorable Joe Resweber Harris County Attorney Harris County Courthouse Houston, Texas 77002

Re: Issuance of marriage licenses to recently divorced parties.

Dear Mr. Resweber:

You ask two questions about the authority of the county clerk to issue a marriage license to a recently divorced person. You describe a situation where the judge has granted one marriage license applicant a divorce more than thirty days prior to his application by announcing the decision in open court and noting it on the docket sheet, but has signed the divorce decree less than thirty days previously. Neither party to…