Can You Get a ‘Secret Divorce’?
February 9, 2016
By: Dave Roos
Not in the United States, says Lina Guillen, a California family lawyer and editor at Nolo, a source for free legal information and publisher of do-it-yourself legal guides.
“In the U.S., there is something called a default divorce,” Guillen explains, “which can be granted with just one spouse appearing in court, but these aren’t really ‘secret divorces.'” The difference is that the spouse asking for divorce must prove that he or she notified the other spouse by serving divorce papers, or else published the divorce filing in the newspaper as a way of notification if the other spouse couldn’t be found.
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