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Services are available online, by phone, or walk-ins. Serves as the custodian of public documents and official document related services such as birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates, researches fictitious business names, official document online research, notary bond & oath service, process server registration bond, ordering copies of official records, basic recording of property, preliminary change of ownership report, deed and lien recording and lien release, search of recorded documents.

Issues certified copies of California birth and death records that are on file from 1905 to the present. Maintains a central registry of California marriages and divorces, prepares new certificates for adoptions and changes in paternity information, corrects and amends vital records as authorized by State law and issues certified copies of California fetal death and still birth certificates. See website for extensive information and specific instructions on requesting vital records.

Provides consular services: passports, Mexican ID's, birth certificate assistance, death certificate assistance, real estate transactions, amongst others to citizens of Mexico.

Provides birth and death records for current year and one year prior. If the birth or death is not in that date range, contact County Recorders Office at 555 Escobar Street, Martinez for process and fee. Only authorized individuals may obtain a birth certificate; an authorized individual is the registrant, or parent or legal guardian of the registrant, a party entitled to receive the record as a result of a court order, or an attorney or a licensed adoption agency seeking the birth record in order to comply with the requirements. A member of a law enforcement agency or a representative of another governmental agency, as provided by law, who is conducting official business, a child, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, spouse or domestic partner of the registrant, an attorney representing the registrant or the registrant's estate, or any person or agency empowered by statute or appointed by a court to act on behalf of the registrant or the registrant's estate.