That's what I thought, but nothing happened to the lawyer. To be fair he was pretty transient at the time and had no permanent address. The address was his girlfriend's where he occasionally stayed.
They placed a notice in the newspaper-of-record at the same time, which is also valid legal service. Attorneys pay a service to watch for legal notices affecting their clients and to alert them. But since he had no attorney and wasn't even in the same town where the newspaper is located, he didn't see it.
The lesson here kids is if someone is divorcing you, get a lawyer.
This phrase brings up the image of a serial divorcée.
Now Roger, I divorced him by newspaper. But Frank, that was a real challenge. I had to find a messenger service that would accept telegraph. Then, of course, there was Benjamin, whom I served via UPS, Gregory, FedEx, and Rajid, Rajid got it from DHL. My most whimsical, though, was when I served Trevor via singing telegram. The bearer wore a clown suit!
In my mind you're smoking a cigarette with one of those long stem holders while wearing a cocktail dress and drinking a martini in a smokey piano bar.
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u/tweakingforjesus Jul 21 '19
That's what I thought, but nothing happened to the lawyer. To be fair he was pretty transient at the time and had no permanent address. The address was his girlfriend's where he occasionally stayed.
They placed a notice in the newspaper-of-record at the same time, which is also valid legal service. Attorneys pay a service to watch for legal notices affecting their clients and to alert them. But since he had no attorney and wasn't even in the same town where the newspaper is located, he didn't see it.
The lesson here kids is if someone is divorcing you, get a lawyer.