Wrong name on divorce certificate

[richy176]

I was sorting through some of my late mother's papers recently and noticed that my father's name on the Degree Nisi Certificate has the christian names Charles Richard rather than Arthur Richard. The date and place of the marriage are correct but the marriage certificate shows Arthur Richard. No other document we have found used Charles and no one in the family has ever known him by that name.

Would the incorrect name make the divorce invalid with him later, unwittingly, being a bigamist?

The divorce certificate dates from 1951, and my mother, father and his second wife have all passed away so there is no one who could be in any trouble but I am just interested if the divorce could have been declared invalid. They would have corrected it had they realised.

[paulajayne]

Charles Richard may be his birth names but he went by Arthur, do you have a birth cert? An error from 70 years ago will all involved no longer with us will have little or no implications.

[richy176]

His birth name was Arthur Richard and every document we have seen uses those names including his later marriage certificate. I just thought that the names on a divorce certificate should match the ones on the marriage certificate or at least have an `also known as' addition.. I appreciate there are no implications if this was an error but just out of curiosity wondered in the divorce was invalid.

[paulajayne]

The decree nisi is a provisional decree of divorce pronounced when the court is satisfied that a person has met the legal and procedural requirements to obtain a divorce. Following the pronouncement of decree nisi, the marriage still exists and you are not yet 'divorced'

Have you decree Absolute,

[richy176]

Just checked the certificate and it says `making a degree nisi absolute'