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A sworn statement of your present marital status where some authority needs it on record — most often alongside a marriage registration application, a passport or visa application, a government job, admission or scholarship form, or an adoption proceeding. It covers three situations: never married at all; married and since divorced, without remarrying; or married and since widowed, without remarrying.
This affidavit does not itself register a marriage, dissolve one, or prove a death — it is your own sworn statement, made on the strength of the decree or certificate it refers to, not a substitute for that decree or certificate. Attach a copy of the divorce decree or the death certificate where the receiving authority asks for one.
Not for a joint declaration by both parties to an intended marriage under the Special Marriage Act, 1954 — that notice-of-intended-marriage procedure needs its own separate declaration in the form that Act prescribes, sworn by each party about age, status and the absence of a prohibited relationship, and is a different document from this one.