Monday, April 6, 2015

"Judge says Brooklyn woman can use Facebook to serve divorce papers"

"In a landmark ruling, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper is allowing a nurse named Ellanora Baidoo to serve her elusive husband with divorce papers via a Facebook message."
Baidoo, 26, “is granted permission serve defendant with the divorce summons using a private message through Facebook,”... 

“I think it’s new law, and it’s necessary,” said Baidoo’s lawyer, Andrew Spinnell.

His client and Blood-Dzraku tied the knot back in a civil ceremony back in 2009, but their relationship crumbled when Blood-Dzraku reneged on his promise to have a traditional Ghanaian wedding ceremony as well, Spinnell said. Both are from Ghana.

“She wanted their families there,”

5 comments:

AllenS said...

Blood-Dzraku? What could possibly go wrong?

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

In the movies, the process server springs up by surprise in some public place, throws a messy bunch of paper at the protagonist, and sneers, "You been served!"

Still the best way to do it.

Amartel said...

Insanity. End around some inconvenient and unfortunate facts in this case will lead to abuse of process in thousands of others. The judge is a hack.

Amartel said...

California has service by publication which is a last resort once the court has found that all efforts to serve the person personally or otherwise have failed. The plaintiff posts a notice in a newspaper "of general circulation" for a month and at the conclusion the defendant is "served." Service by Facebook does, by comparison, seem slightly more effective. Nobody actually reads newspapers anymore (not that anyone ever read the notices section before).

Synova said...

Yeah... if she's tried to serve the papers in the usual ways and he's arranging not to get them, the court ought to be able to grant the right to serve them some other way. Like publication.

If it's opening this to everyone as a first option, then, no... shouldn't do that.