Advice to registering officers and area meetings
Special care should be exercised in the following cases:
a. where neither party is known to the registering officer;
b. where neither party is a member;
c. where either party has had a previous marriage dissolved;
d. where either party has been in a long-term relationship with another person, especially where children are involved.
If the registering officer does not feel able to allow arrangements to proceed without further consideration, in these and other cases where special care is necessary, the matter should be referred to the area meeting or to such Friends as may have been appointed for the purpose. The registering officer is advised to take this action where either party has had a previous marriage dissolved, as suggested in 16.17.
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