The Court Didn’t Grant Your Divorce? Location (Venue) Matters

Every case is different and there are many reasons why a judge might not be able to do what you have asked – like grant your divorce.

One common reason that a judge cannot act is because your lawsuit was filed in the wrong place. There’s a proper place for everything, including divorce. You could be in the wrong courtroom or the wrong building. If so, those mistakes are easily fixed.

You might be in the wrong court. That’s unlikely, because the clerks at the Magistrate, Probate, Juvenile or State Courts mostly likely would not allow you to file your divorce there. They know that Superior Court is the appropriate court for divorce.

More often, people have filed in Superior Court and appear at their court date only to get the bad news that they’ve filed in the wrong county and will have to start their divorce all over again in the correct county. If this happens, a lot of time and money has been wasted. Here’s how you can avoid it.