What if You Can’t Serve Your Spouse Divorce Papers?

Published On: 24 January, 2022

You must personally serve your spouse with divorce papers. What if you lost track of your spouse and no longer know where they are living?

What if you can’t find your spouse to serve the divorce papers?

This comes up quite a bit. People get married, then separate, go their separate ways, and don’t keep track of each other. Later, one of them wants a divorce but can’t find the other spouse.

Well, we’re going to have to do our best to find them. We can hire investigators, look them up on Facebook, or reach out to family or friends. We want to find them so we can serve them the divorce papers.

Once you find out where they last lived, you can serve the papers at their last known address. If you find them on social media or have an email address, we may even be able to ask the court to allow service through email. I’ve even served people through Facebook messaging.

But that only happens after I’ve attempted to serve them in person – either at their last known address or maybe at their work.

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