Is there a legally valid way to replace a foreign marriage with a US marriage?
<p>If a couple is married in a foreign country, their marriage is legally recognized in the US without being filed anywhere in its borders. Supposing they want to have a civil marriage filed in the US. Are there legally aboveboard ways to do this in any US state?</p>
<p>For example, is there a procedure for dissolving a foreign marriage for the purpose of replacing it with a US marriage? Are there &quot;no fault&quot; divorce options that do not require the filing spouse to claim irreconcileable differences or that the marriage has broken down? Are there other options?</p>

<p>There is a procedure for dissolving (ending) a marriage. It is called a divorce. It works the same whether the marriage originally took place in the same town, elsewhere in the same state, in another US state, or in another country. The details vary significantly from one US state to another</p>
<p>Then marrying again is a separate matter, whether to the same person or to a different person.</p>
<p>To the best of my knowledge there is no procedure in which one &quot;replaces&quot; a non-US marriage with a US marriage so as to be entitled to a US marriage certificate, short of divorce and remarriage.</p>
<p>I suspect that there is a simpler way to obtain the desired end goal here, but since I don't clearly know what the goal is, I can't say what the way to achieve is, or even be sure that such a way exists. A lawyer knowledgeable about immigration or international travel in the relevant county might be able to help.</p>

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