What t do if my ex-wife skipped town with a convicted child molester a year ago leaving me to care for our 2 children?
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What t do if my ex-wife skipped town with a convicted child molester a year ago leaving me to care for our 2 children?
At that time I filed for an emergency custody order and it was granted. However I was unable to find an address to have court documents served on her and the order expired and reverted back to the original plan. How do I go about finding her in order to pursue custody and child support? I have the state she was last supposedly in along with her SSN
Asked on November 15, 2012 under Family Law, Indiana
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S.L,. Member, California Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 11 years ago | Contributor
Since you don't know your ex-wife's whereabouts, she can be served by publication. Service by publication is running a notice in the legal notices section of a newspaper for the required period of time. The required period of time for running the notice in the legal notices section of a newspaper varies from state to state. Your court clerk can tell you how long the notice has run in the legal notices section of the newspaper for it to be valid service by publication in your state.
Service by publication is effective even if your ex-wife never sees the notice in the legal notices section of the newspaper.
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