Sunday, August 12, 2012

WILL MY HOME STATE DIVORCE PAPERS WORK IN ANOTHER STATE?

QUESTION: I am an active duty Marine stationed in New Hampshire and California is not helping. Divorce paperwork was filed in May of 2011. I have been deployed twice and it is still not resolved.

MY RESPONSE: Your home state papers will work in another state only if the divorce is completed in the state in which it was filed. Venue cannot be transferred to another state during the pendency of a divorce. Once the divorce is granted, the divorce judgment will be effective in all states, i.e., all states will recognize that you are divorced.

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