Marriage licenses will be no more beginning Thursday

Tallapoosa County Probate Judge Tal East, left, said the new law essentially takes the probate office out of it. “It is incumbent on the marrying parties to verify they are following the law," he said.

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Generations of Alabamaians who were seeking to get married have always visited their county courthouse and the probate judge’s office to get a marriage license but that will no longer be possible starting Thursday.

A new law goes into effect Thursday changing the documents and procedure for a marriage. The new process allows couples to marry by completing a form, getting it notarized and delivering it to a probate office.

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Cliff Williams is a staff writer for Tallapoosa Publishers.