Do you need a marriage certificate? You can obtain your marriage certificate from the registry office where the marriage took place. The registry office will issue it from the marriage register.If you do not have German citizenship and wish to marry in Germany, you will need a certificate of marriageability from your home country. If you are not issued one, you can apply for an exemption from the requirement to present a certificate of marriageability.If your marriage was divorced outside Germany, you can have this decision formally recognized in Germany.If you are married or in a registered civil partnership but living separately, you can demand reasonable maintenance from your partner even before the divorce.You can inspect the register of matrimonial property rights.As a displaced person or late repatriate, you, your spouse or your descendants can discard components of your previous name if these are not customary in Germany. You can also adopt the original form of a modified name. This applies to names that have been modified according to gender or relationship. Furthermore, you can also adopt German-language forms of your first or family name. If such German-language forms do not exist, you can also adopt new first names. If you are married, you can also determine a common surname or adopt your surname in a German translation.