Pre & Post Marital Resources
This quiz, by Dr. Gary Chapman, author of the book The Five Love Languages, helps you to assess your personal love language(s).
Relationship Tests by Dr. Nathan Cobb
The Marriage Quiz
This questionnaire focuses on eight dimensions of a healthy, well-connected marriage, namely trust, partnership, support, togetherness, emotional intimacy, warmth/affection, chemistry, and conflict management. It highlights those dimensions that are currently strengths in your relationship and those that may be work areas.
Relationship Quiz - Marital Friendship
This quiz, published by The Gottman Institute, helps assess how well you know your partner, an important measure of marital friendship.
These questionnaires are for your personal use only. They are not meant to be diagnostic or to offer professional advice or guidance. If you have questions about the health of your relationship, please seek out the advice of a qualified professional.
Applying for a Marriage License in Maryland
Prior to any marriage ceremony
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A license must be obtained from the clerk of Circuit Court for the county, or Baltimore City, where the marriage will be performed. Marriage License Fees: (varies by county)
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Either party may apply for a license in person at the clerk’s office, except in Cecil County where both must apply together. (The Cecil County exception will no longer apply beginning October 1, 2016).
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If the parties are not living in the county where the marriage ceremony is to take place, the clerk must accept an affidavit (written statement confirmed by oath or affirmation) instead of an application, from one of the parties to be married, with the same information required by the application, and sworn under oath by a clerk or other official in the county where the party lives.
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If either party has been married previously, the clerk must be told the date (day, month, year) and place of the former spouse’s death or of any annulment or divorce decree.
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