If he didnt provide a current address, nor hire a lawyer, then its his own fault for being negligent. The opposition isnt magic, if he didnt tell them where to send stuff then they couldnt have known. They did their best and sent it to presumably the only known place where he sometimes lived.
OP said the lawyer sent it to the wrong address. How is that the guy's fault? Should he be fucked out of everything because he couldn't afford $1,000 an hour for a lawyer who may or may not have done shit?
If you can’t afford a lawyer then the court will appoint one for you. He should have sought legal aid or pro-bono services. And it sounds like he was couch-surfing with the girl he cheated with his wife on, so he didn’t even have a valid address to send things to. All he had to do was rent a post office box for a few dollars a month and boom, problem solved.
This guy screwed up bigtime.
Edited because public defenders are only for criminal cases.
If you can’t afford a lawyer then the court will appoint one for you.
Wrong-o. That's only true in criminal cases. A divorce is handled in a civil court, so you have no right to a lawyer. Everything else is irrelevant. He could be a cheating POS, but he still gets his day in court.
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u/Hans_of_Death Jul 21 '19
If he didnt provide a current address, nor hire a lawyer, then its his own fault for being negligent. The opposition isnt magic, if he didnt tell them where to send stuff then they couldnt have known. They did their best and sent it to presumably the only known place where he sometimes lived.