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What's really grim is when you've lost everything you've ever owned, including your all important paperwork. It is next to impossible to prove that you are who you are in such instances. Colorado will accept a notorized copy of your divorce or marriage degree, a notorized birth certificate, or a military ID. When I'd lost everything last year, I went down to get a copy of my divorce papers. The following coversation resulted:
Me: I need a notorized copy of my divorce degree
Clerk: That will be $22.75 and I'll need some ID.
Me: I lost all my paper-work. I DON'T have ID - that's what I need the divorce certificate for.
Clerk: Sorry, I cannot release that document without valid ID. Do you have a driver's license? That would work.
Me: They won't give me a license without valid ID. They said to come here.
Clerk: Sorry, can't help you. NEXT!
It was like being a character in a Kafka novel. Finally my ex got back to town (he'd been gone 3 weeks on a business trip) and had the decency to go down and get a notorized copy by showing them HIS ID, and he than handed the copy over to me and I took it down to the DMV and achieved official existance again. What an ordeal!
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