{"id":24238,"date":"2015-04-07T17:33:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T21:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=24238"},"modified":"2015-04-07T17:33:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T21:33:57","slug":"service-via-facebook-ok-says-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=24238","title":{"rendered":"Service via Facebook? OK, says judge."},"content":{"rendered":"

Given my own difficulties in serving the defendants in my lawsuit<\/a>, I was amused to read this in the New York Law Journal.<\/p>\n

It’s clear, though, that the judge said OK to serving this divorce action on Facebook only because all other avenues, so to speak, had been tried but had failed.<\/p>\n

That is: don’t all you eager-to-be-divorc\u00e9es rush onto Facebook to begin the process of dumping your mates.<\/p>\n

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Judge Authorizes Service by Facebook in Divorce<\/em><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

Andrew Keshner<\/a>, New York Law Journal<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n

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Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper has allowed a plaintiff wife to serve divorce papers on her hard-to-find husband through his Facebook account, while acknowledging the woman’s request for sole, not supplemental, service through a private message was a “radical departure” from traditional ideas of what constituted service of process.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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