International Issues

Hi I'm new here, just registered yesterday ad made a post under solicitors which many have seen but no one has commented on, I'd just like to ask... Are all the applicants and respondents on this forum in the UK? Is there anyone with any experience of divorce where the respondent has left the country and there's no contact apart from the occasional emailed death threat?

JulieSam,

Yes the vast majority of current wikivorce members are UK based..although it looks like we will soon be joined by the Aussies and the Yanks!!

In your case if your marriage, married life and you are all UK based then the case can proceed as normal through UK courts even if he is out of the country.

Making sure he receives notice of the application and acknowledges it is made a little trickier..but it can be done.

Once he has acknowledge the application then the process will pretty much drive on and its up to him whether he bothers to attend certain hearings or not. If he doesnt then things will go against him.

Just an update

I've been to see my solicitor who told me that given the fact that my x2b has moved and made himself unavailable, I have a good case for getting a court order to 'dispense with serving the papers'. I have to prove I have made serious attempts to contact my x. I just happened to mention that i knew for a fact that my x had seen the petition cos he rang me with a load of abuse after he received it, saying it was a pack of lies (he's one of thoses people who is never to blame). My solicitor told me i can swear an affit davit and the judge should accept that. I had been feeling really down thinking my divorce was never going to move forward. I read through some of my ex's old emails just on the offchance that he had mentioned anything about the petition and he has so now I have evidence that he has seen the petition. I'm thinking of sending him a noose for xmas so he can finish hanging himself properly

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