The process is the same as if the person being served were not incarcerated. The party requesting the dissolution of the marriage files suit in the state court in the county in which he or she currently resides.
The procedure to file a divorce is the same for all residents of Ohio including those that are inmates. The inmate will need to have someone file the paperwork for them.
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An inmate can be served divorce papers while in a California prison from a spouse in Oregon. An attorney will need to be hired to file the paperwork in the state of Oregon.
Essentially, the procedures are the same as if he were not an inmate. You will file the divorce. He will be served papers. Where it differs is he may not be (likely will not be) writted out so that he can attend any court hearings.
It is really quite easy to divorce a prison inmate in the state of Alabama. First, one would need to retain a lawyer. Then the lawyer will file the necessary paperwork to get the divorce started.
You must file in the county in which you currently reside and you have to have lived in that county for six months!
are you in Ohio prison right now or is your husband in Ohio state prison? He is in prison, I live in California, where we were married 25 years ago.
You will have to file it in the same country you come from.
You must first file a motion for divorce at your local courthouse. You will then be assigned a court date where a judge will walk you through the remainder of the divorce process.
The inmate has to ask for a law clerk to first draw up the papers, be sure to include an "indignet" (not sure on spelling) paper. The divorce papers and the other form are then submitted to the clerk of the court in the county in which that inmate is residing ( for instance if he were at Polk C.I. he'd send them to Bartow). I believe the fee is $1.00. I know for a spouse to file to divorce an inmate the cost is a dollar.
If the prisoner is not going to contest the divorce, have the spouse file for an un-contested divorce in their local court. The case will eventually be heard and if the prisoner returns all the completed paperwork that he will be sent, there should be no problem with it.
You have a few options. You can file for divorce in the state that you were married in (even if it is different from Ohio or Florida), or in any state that you are our spouse is a resident of. It would be a good idea for you to file first and in Ohio so that you do not have the burden of traveling to Florida but you do have a few options for filing.