Include Sealing to Spouse in expiration date extension once ordinances for a person are started.

LegacyUser

Dale Seth Bills said: The expiration policy automatically adds an additional year to the expiration date when I start doing the ordinances for a person, except for sealing to spouse. Sealing to spouse is on a different line than the other ordinances but it is the last ordinance to be completed and its expiration date should also be extended with the others.

LegacyUser

Tom Huber said: Welcome back to the community support forum for FamilySearch. FamilySearch personnel read every discussion thread and may or may not respond as their time permits. We all share an active interest in using the resources of this site and as users, we have various levels of knowledge and experience and do our best to help each other with concerns, issues, and/or questions.

Sealing to Spouse is a couple ordinance. It is not part of the ordinances for the individual and recorded in your temple list on its own line.

The ordinance itself can be performed before the ordinances of either couple are completed. See "Sealing a couple before doing other ordinances" at https://www.familysearch.org/help/sal... (you must be signed into FamilySearch as a member to see this article) and the related articles for the details.

While this has caused a number of members great concern, it is a practice that has long been performed in temples using the extraction program that existed until about this time last year.

If the couple sealing is performed out of order, it is still valid but does not take effect until the prerequisite vicarious ordinances are performed for both persons.

LegacyUser

Tom Huber said: The expiration date for sealed to spouse is set by the date that ordinance was reserved and unlike individual ordinances is not impacted by other ordinances for either husband or wife.

These policies are set by the Temple Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and not by FamilySearch.