How can I verify if my husband ever divorced his first wife about 30 years ago?
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How can I verify if my husband ever divorced his first wife about 30 years ago?
We married 28 years ago, a second marriage for both of us. I remember looking back that the marriage license listed his info as his first marriage, while mine was listed as my second. I thought it a typo and never thought again. I now have to wonder if the divorce ever happened. My gut feeling is no, it never did, and
therefore my marriage is null and void. How can I confirm? I don’t remember the
name of his first wife.
Asked on August 27, 2016 under Family Law, Massachusetts
Answers:
S.L,. Member, California Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
If you know in which court your husband's divorce was filed, you can go there or send someone there if it is not near where you currently live, to look for your husband's name in the court's computer under petitioner and respondent. That will give you the case number and will confirm that the case was filed.
After obtaining the case number, give it to the court clerk and ask to see the file. A file that old is probably in storage and may not be immediately available until it is retrieved from storage. Once you have the case file, you can't remove it from the court, but can have the court clerk photocopy the file or those sections of the file you want.
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