Clerk-Recorder | OC Clerk Recorder Department

WELCOME TO THE CLERK-RECORDER DEPARTMENT

Hello and thank you for visiting our website. The Clerk-Recorder Department’s dedicated employees perform a wide range of services including recordation of real property transactions, issuing marriage licenses, performing civil marriage ceremonies, issuing birth, death, and marriage certificates, maintaining registration of notaries, and processing applications for fictitious business names and passports.

Our staff is committed to providing a consistently high level of public service. We strive to run our office in a cost-effective manner and use automated processes and digital image technology to make it easier for the public and business community to access our records.

The website provides you with details about our services and the addresses to all our office locations in the cities of Anaheim, Laguna Hills, and Santa Ana. Sincerely,

Hugh Nguyen

Orange County Clerk-Recorder

Highlights

Biography

“Dedicated to making the public records readily accessible while safeguarding the confidentiality and security of those records.”

Hugh Nguyen
Orange County Clerk-Recorder

Civil Wedding Ceremonies

Civil weddings are performed in special ceremony rooms at the Old County Courthouse and at the department’s branch offices in Anaheim and Laguna Hills.

Old County Courthouse

Marriage licenses and U.S. passports can be obtained through the department at the historic Old County Courthouse in downtown Santa Ana. Passport photos also are available.

North County Branch Office

Residents in North Orange County can visit the department’s branch office in Anaheim, where customers can access most of our services.

South County Branch Office

Residents in South Orange County can visit the department’s branch office at the Laguna Hills Civic Center, where customers can access most of our services and parking is free.

Fees

Forms

Official Records Copies

Marriage Services

Online Services

Passport Services

Headlines

Clerk-Recorder Implements Technology to Help Increase Efficiency and Improve Customer Service Experience at the Department's North County Branch Office

January 26, 2022

Orange County Clerk-Recorder Hugh Nguyen has implemented Qtrac, a digital queue management software, at the department’s North County Branch Office in Anaheim. The technology was implemented to help reduce lines, disperse waiting crowds and decrease wait times allowing staff to focus on helping...

Virtual Marriage Services image computer and rings

Orange County Clerk-Recorder to Offer Virtual Marriage Services

January 12, 2022

Clerk-Recorder Hugh Nguyen will be offering virtual marriage services to the public by appointment only effective January 18, 2022. This will help reduce crowds at the department’s offices and help couples minimize exposure to COVID-19, allowing them to obtain marriage services from the comfort and...

Clerk-Recorder Department Earns California State Association of Counties’ Prestigious Innovation Award for Hitched at Honda Center

January 10, 2022

Orange County Clerk-Recorder Hugh Nguyen is proud to announce that his department is a recipient of a 2021 Innovation Award from the California State Association of Counties (CSAC) for its Hitched at Honda Center Program in the Disaster and Emergency Response/Management category and rural population...

Clerk-Recorder to Continue Mailing Real Property Fraud Prevention Courtesy Notices to Protect Real Property Owners

October 22, 2021

This week, Clerk-Recorder Hugh Nguyen reaffirmed his commitment to fraud prevention by gaining approval from the Orange County Board of Supervisors to continue mailing Real Property Fraud Prevention Courtesy Notices to current property owners when a transfer deed such as a deed, grant, grant deed...

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