Judge Rules Facebook Can Be Used To Serve Divorce Papers

Facebook can be used for a lot of things. You can use it to stay in touch with friends and family, follow popular events, upload your memories, stories and much more. If you’re dealing with a spouse that’s hard to locate now you can use the world’s largest social network to serve divorce papers as well. That’s what a Manhattan Supreme Court Justice ruled recently in a case that involved a 26-year old woman trying to serve divorce papers to her husband.

The woman, Ellanora Baidoo, was told that she could serve the divorce papers by sending “a private message through Facebook” because her spouse could not be located.

Victor Sena Blood-Dzraku, the husband, is proving to be difficult to locate. He hasn’t had an address since the past four years, he doesn’t have a job, there’s no forwarding address for him at the post office or a billing address linked to his prepaid cell phone. Even the DMV has no record of him.

Apparently the husband only communicates with others through his prepaid cell phone or through social media. Since Baidoo hasn’t been able to get him on the phone for this purpose she has been allowed by a Manhattan Supreme Court Justice to serve the divorce summons through Facebook message “once a week for three consecutive weeks or until acknowledged.”

Adnan Farooqui
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