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On November 6, 2012, Brady was elected clerk of the Peace for Sussex County, Delaware. The Clerk of the Peace is the head of the Marriage Bureau for the county, where marriage licenses are issued and upon request, the ceremony is performed. Brady was sworn into office in January, 2013.
In Delaware, these offices are clerk of the peace, recorder of deeds, register of wills, and sheriff. The office of clerk of the peace is unique among the 50 states; the office-holder's function is almost exclusively to perform marriages. The current incumbent is Kenneth W. Boulden Jr. (D) The recorder of deeds is Michael Kozikowski (D).
Courts of Delaware include: State courts of Delaware. Delaware Supreme Court [1] Delaware Court of Chancery [2] Delaware Superior Court (3 courts, one for each county) [3] Delaware Family Court [4] Delaware Court of Common Pleas [5] Delaware Justice of the Peace Court; Delaware Alderman's Court; Federal courts located in Delaware
The office of the clerk of the peace originated in England and is lost in antiquity. It is referred to in 34 Edw. 3.c. 1 (1361) [clarification needed] as an office occupied by a person who draws indictments, arraigns prisoners, joins issue for the Crown, enters judgments, awards their process and makes up and keeps records in respect of proceedings before justices assembled in quarter sessions ...
The Delaware Court of Common Pleas consists of nine Judges and two Commissioners. The Justice of the Peace Courts consist of One Chief Magistrate (Chief Magistrate Davis), and forty-three Justices of the Peace. Delaware was the last U.S. state to use judicial corporal punishment, in 1952. [4]
Delaware The first openly gay elected official was John Brady as Sussex County Register in Chancery(chief clerk of court) in 2000. Brady also served as The Sussex County Recorder of Deeds and Sussex County Clerk of the Peace (Marriage Bureau Chief Official) before retiring after 14 years of Service
Because Delaware is the state of incorporation for most major U.S. corporations, the District of Delaware hears and tries many patent and other complex commercial disputes that must be heard in federal court for diversity of citizenship reasons, and hears many appeals from bankruptcy disputes which are filed with the United States Bankruptcy ...
Kent County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Delaware. As of the 2020 census, the population was 181,851, making it the least populous county in Delaware. [1] The county seat is Dover, [2] the state capital of Delaware. It is named for Kent, an English county. [3]