Q: Once I have filed for the divorce, does it appear in the local newspaper legal section & if so, how soon?
A:
The answer is that it depends but generally the answer is no unless the defendant’s whereabouts are unknown. Every county in Georgia has a newspaper that is designated as the newspaper for publishing legal notices that are required by law to be published. Sometimes a legal newspaper for a particular county also publishes other legal notices or filings that are not necessarily required to be published and sometimes a newspaper that is not the designated legal newspaper for a county publishes legal information that is not required to be published such as divorce filings or the names of people who were arrested.
With regard to divorces in Georgia, the only time a notice of a divorce is required to be published is when the divorce must be served by publication which is always the case when the whereabouts of the defendant are unknown. The complaint for divorce may also be served by publication if the defendant does not live in Georgia. If a complaint for divorce is required to be published, a person can generally find out the dates that it will be published before it is actually published.
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