[thaumasiotes]

> Unfortunately these are restricted for use by governmental agencies for important official notifications (e.g. you're being conscripted, your marital status changed, something has changed in regard to a property you own).

When your marital status changes, isn't that a notification that goes from you to the government, and not the other way around?

[emmet]

Your tax codes aren’t going to update the minute you say your vows. Someone needs to do that on the other side and let you know when it’s been processed.

[thaumasiotes]

Why? Does anything change after it's been processed? What are you going to do differently at that point?

[mgbmtl]

I guess it depends if the government recognizes the marriage date that is declared, or the date that they process it (if the marriage was not in front of an official).

Divorce date can be pretty random, since it's rarely done live by a judge/official.

[tambre]

The marital example is something I came up with, but not actually sure if that happens as I haven't gotten married myself. But it sounds something like that would exist so you can react to someone faking your identity and registering a fictive marriage with someone in your name.