If you’ve downloaded a California county application for a birth, marriage, or death certificate and noticed that the fee printed on the PDF looks outdated, you’re not imagining things.
This is one of the most common — and most stressful — points of confusion for people ordering California vital records.
Here’s what’s really happening, and when an older PDF does not mean your request will be rejected.
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