Default Decree?

[Bali Hai]

I have no car to get down to the courthouse, and the advice to go get the decree to look at it was sound, but dang, if I HAD a copy, and could talk to a clerk at the courthouse, I would have my answer. Not sure a Default Decree meant anything. My other divorces were concluded with a Certificate of Dissolution. I only had a partial page texted (yes, texted!) to me by the stbx, who was taunting me with it. My address had changed from AZ to TX with the Court and so my sister may be receiving the doc instead of me. .

Well, I found a way down to courthouse yesterday, picked up a copy and asked the clerk, and she said, yes, you are divorced. And it only cost me a taxi fare (both ways) and two bucks for copy fee.

So, yeah, I am divorced, which is what I was hoping, so the stbx is a legal ex, the way I want him.

Have a great weekend
Signing off,
Kathy

Better check over that default divorce real careful, you may owe alimony or debts you weren't planning on.

 

[JessiesGirl30]

I had not received my copy of the Decree, and I had not heard of a Default Decree before, just a Dissolution Decree. So when the stbx (now a bona-fide ex) showed it to me (via TEXT, no less, not in person), I was not convinced.

I went down to the courthouse and gave them my ID and asked, and they said yep, it's a valid Decree, and gave me a copy at a real cheap price.

I looked it over, and it matched what we had filed, so no surprises.

Thanks for the sarcasm, folks. I got my "original" copy last week, way longer than it should have taken to receive it. But that's life.

Out.
K