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In order to start a divorce case the husband or wife must file a “Petition for Dissolution of Marriage.” The petition states what the filing party seeks from the divorce such as property, money, children, etc. The Petition is then filed and “served” to the other party. The party who has been “served” with the Petition for divorce must then file an “answer” within a time period of 20 days.Failure to “answer” to the Petition risks allowing the serving party to get everything they have requested for in their Petition by “default.” It is important that once you are served with a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage that you seek legal assistance from a divorce attorney immediately to avoid this “default”.If you have recently been served a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage, or ready to start filing for divorce contact Hardesty, Tyde, Green, & Ashton today or call us at 904-853-1678 to schedule a consultation with one of our veteran Jacksonville divorce attorneys.

How does a wife (or a husband) get a divorce if she (he) does not live in the same state as the other spouse? The short answer is the wife (or husband) goes to her (his) local courthouse and files a petition for divorce or dissolution of marriage. It doesn’t matter where her spouse lives.To be sure, the wife (or husband) will need to have lived in her state, and probably her county, for a time specified in the law of her state. In California, she needs to have been a resident of California for 6 months and a resident of her current county for 3 months to file for a dissolution of marriage. Other states have different residency requirements.She (or he) will need to have her spouse served with her petition for dissolution of marriage or divorce, but it doesn’t matter where he lives. That’s because we have a concept in the United States, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, of “divisible divorce.” Divisible divorce means we will let a spouse get a divorce no matter where that spouse lives in the United States, and the other spouse can be anywhere in the world. But that’s not the end of the story.The concept of jurisdiction, which here means the power of a court over a person, is complicated. A court that is designated to handle divorce/dissolution of marriages always has jurisdiction over a resident of that state and the marital status itself. But that doesn’t mean that court has jurisdiction over the spouse to decide issues related to divorce such as child custody, child support, spousal support (alimony), or division of property. The wife in this question might have to adjudicate those questions in the state where the husband resides. I say “might,” not “must.” I repeat, jurisdiction is a complicated question.

Another person mistaking a social and legal contract for a religious rite. Look, marriage in one form or another existed in all societies, and wasn't necessarily a religious rite as well. All marriage does, when you get right down to it, is guarantee legally who the father of the woman's children is, and set up a scheme of inheritance for the goods of the married couple (which until very recently were all actually the man's, since women couldn't own property in their own name).How do I know marriage is a legal contract first and foremost? Well, how do you dissolve a marriage? Do you go to a church and get un-married? No, you file a petition for dissolution of marriage with your local court, and you get a legal divorce. Nothing else dissolves a marriage.If you need to go to court to end something, it's a legal contract. Pure and simple.Therefore, there is nothing inherently religious about getting married. People do it by getting a license and standing up before a justice of the peace all the time. It's just as binding as standing up in front of a guy wearing funny clothes and calling down blessings from an invisible friend in the sky.So yeah, atheists get married. Why shouldn't they? We fall in love, want to declare our love and trust in each other, we want to mingle our assets, and sometimes we need to separate them, too. So we get married, we get divorced, and we get married again.