What happens when you think you're divorced and you're not.

[Gogi]

This is the reverse of the old 'we were'nt legally married' storyline:
The humor columnist who writes for stl.com and his wife thought they were getting a no fault divorce. Unfortunately the attorney they chose took their money and pretended to file all the paperwork. They discovered this when no record of their divorce could be found at the St. Louis County courthouse. The columnist has already gotten engaged to another woman!

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. You sue the attorney

for not filing the damn paperwork! Link??

[Gogi]

2. I'd give you a link if stl.com would ever answer!

I happened to read this in the newspaper.

[Floogeldy]

3. And you send a letter to the Bar Ass'n

[uppityperson]

4. Almost happened to me.

My state has a 6 month waiting period between filing and getting the divorce. At the 6 month time I went to court to find the papers had never been served and the server never bothered to notify me or send the papers back. It was a bit of a bummer because my (soon to be) ex had changed his mind from being ok to a no-fault divorce to maybe we should try it again. I hadn't, so it was a bit uncomfortable, having to go through it again.

[Gogi]

5. Ok, it's too late to be posting.

It's on www.stltoday.com

Lawyer is Accused of Forging Couple's Papers
Feb. 19, 2005
by William C. Lhotka
Robert and Sara Jane Rybarczyk decided last year to get a divorce and hired lawyer Philip Adams to draw up an uncontested petition for marriage dissolution in St. Louis County Circuit Court.

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Robert Rybarczyk, who writes an online humor column for STLtoday.com, the online division of the Post-Dispatch, now finds himself married to one woman and engaged to marry another.