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Originally Posted by lookout123
hey all you legal experts - i need some info pretty quickly... does it matter who serves who with divorce papers? does it matter what the initial decree says? or is it just a starting point for negotiations with no real lasting importance.
i have my reasons for not wanting to be the one to file, but i know that i am going to be served some time this week or early next week. the terms in the decree are not what was previously discussed. if this is important i'm going to need to get into my lawyer's office first thing monday morning to, for lack of a better term - "strike first". i really don't want to do that.
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Sorry I'm late with this... and I see that she has filed, but it really doesn't matter in a civil trial who files first... you can always counter-claim to get yourself on the top, so then it looks like X v. Y v. X... yadda yadda yadda.
Order only matters in a criminal trial. You want to be the one who files first - because you're not the crook
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