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If your spouse is served with divorce papers, that is what matters. The next step is the hearing before the judge. Your spouse may attend or may choose not to attend. It does not matter. What matters is the judge's decree. Many divorces have been granted when the spouse refused to sign.
Go to court. The judge can grant the petition.
You can serve a spouse with separation papers which they have no recourse not to accept. You can also serve them with divorce papers. They can refuse to sign, but eventually a judge may grant the divorce anyway.
Yes. A judge decides whether or not a divorce will be granted, a spouse does not. The fact that your spouse will not sign a piece of paper has no bearing on the issue. The fact that your spouse has retained a lawyer has nothing to do with it. The lawyer represents your spouse's interests. The lawyer is there to take you to the cleaners.
You can issue divorce papers and get a judge to tie up the money.
This depends on the backlog of cases the judge has to review. In most cases, it will be three to four months at the most from the time the papers are filed.
You can divorce a spouse if a judge decides to grant you a divorce. Legally is different from ethical considerations.
Typically if a spouse refuses to sign the divorce papers (a more popular problem than you may think) the court will treat their lack of response as an agreement to your response. You can get a divorce without their consent.
To finalize divorce papers in Illinois, you will need to reach a settlement agreement with your spouse on important issues such as property division, child custody, and support. Once you have this agreement, you can file a Marital Settlement Agreement with the court. After a waiting period of at least six months, you can attend a final hearing where a judge will review your agreement and grant the divorce.
Usually, but if the one seeking the divorce doesn't know where the other spouse is you can post your papers on the courthouse door for thirty (30) days. After the thirty days, you can continue the proceedings. It is free to post the papers, but your attorney will charge you for the correct posting.
After you have done every possible effort to try to summon your spouse with the divorce papers and after this person have receive the papers on his hands and you have a receipt that proves that he was serve on jail or prison, he or she has 21 days to respond to your divorce petition. After this time has passes then you can request a court day on which you can ask the judge to please give you a divorce by default. But remember you have to make sure he was serve.
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