Dakota County Law Blog

A family law blog with real world legal advice

I realize that the title of this post is a bit odd.  However, as a lawyer, knowing when the actual divorce or “dissolution of marriage” case has been started is very important. Why?  Because a divorce case can’t go forward in the court system unless it has been started correctly. So, when is a divorce…

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As I discussed in my prior post, the legal concept of “serving process” on the opposing party in a divorce is a very big deal. In my prior post, I discussed service of process by the opposing party acknowledging that they were served, signing a pre-approved form, and then sending the form back to the…

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When starting any legal proceeding, service of process is a big deal. In order to get a lawsuit, dissolution of marriage, paternity petitioner, adoption petition, or other family law, legal proceeding going, the petitioning party must issue service of process. What is service of process?  I discussed in a prior post the common meaning and…

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If you are going to file an initial pleading or other legal document with a court, you are going to need to consider a very important legal matter that many non family law lawyers often miss – the necessity of “service of process”. In theory, service of process is simple concept.  Basically, when a Petition…

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