How Will Your Spouse Get Served With Divorce Papers?
How will your spouse get served with the divorce papers? Hi, I′m Tulsa Dads.Law attorney Clint Hastings. I focus on fathers′ rights here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And this is a question I get quite a bit, surprisingly. I′d say one out of every five to ten clients wants to know exactly how their spouse is going to be served with the paperwork.
Now, this can be for several reasons, and I′m going to go into some basics here. And then we′re going to talk about actual legal requirements under the statutes of service in a couple of other follow-up videos. So, first of all, you file the divorce paperwork. We file it. We get the summons and the petition for divorce, and often an application for what′s called temporary orders. And we need to get those to your spouse.
Options for Serving Divorce Papers
We usually do it by a process server. You can also do it by hiring the sheriff′s office, paying a fee, and they will serve your spouse with the paperwork. However, you can do it in different ways. One is by certified mail, another is by publication in a paper, if you can′t find them. And we’ll get into that in another couple of videos.
But people sometimes overlook this issue, and it can be important in a volatile relationship or split, especially if one party is trying to escape domestic violence. In other words, they don′t want the paperwork to be served on the other′s spouse, and when they′re in a position where they haven′t left the home yet or there′s not some other kind of order in place protecting them from that person, such as a protective order.
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In the next few videos, I′m going to talk about how service is done and more about how to utilize service, what′s the best way to go about it when you have some of these issues. Thanks for watching. Look over the site. Let us know if you have similar questions, and we will try to answer those for you. Feel free to give us a phone call for a consultation anytime. Contact us at 918-962-0900 today to schedule an appointment with our Tulsa divorce attorney, Clint Hastings. Thanks.
