Filing for divorce

If he filed for divorce, he then has to have you “served” with the summons and complaint if he wants the divorce to be granted. He can do that by mail, certified, return receipt requested, or he can request that a deputy or other process server bring it to you. He has to have you served before he can obtain a divorce. He can’t put a filing on “hold”. He either filed it or he didn’t. You don’t have to pay for it.

David L. McGuire
Attorney
The Rosen Law Firm
4101 Lake Boone Trail, Suite 200
Raleigh, North Carolina 27607
NCdivorce.com
(919)787-6668

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We were on good terms at the time, and he gave me the papers which I signed and returned to him. He then said his attorney had filed the papers.

Thank you for you help.

My husband and I have been seperated for over a year. We have completed our seperation agreement. He served me with divorce papers which he said he would pay for. He told me they were being filed. Now he says he has put the filing on hold until I pay him for the divorce. How do I find out if the papers have been filed? Can he put a filing on hold?