Duncanville, TX asked in Divorce for Texas

Q: i filed for Texas divorce myself and tried to serve my husband through cert. mail

The postal service attempted to serve his paperwork to my address rather than his. I called his post office and they said it must have gotten forwarded because he hadn’t checked his mail in months so she put him on the moved list! I had my mail forwarded to my new address and she said it must have automatically been sent to my address. What do I do with it? Do I sign for it so that it doesn’t get lost?

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Amir Tavakkoli
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Amir Tavakkoli
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  • Houston, TX
  • Licensed in Texas

A: Usually you have to serve the other person in person through a private process server or constable, unless you get permission from a judge to serve them via certified mail. It doesn’t sound like you do here. So you would need to serve them in person by a process server. If certified mail service was allowed by judge, you still can’t serve him yourself, a process server has to do it and file a return of service with court.

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