***URGENT*** - Courts messed up Divorce stuff

StuieUK34

Reworded: How soon can a none contested divorce come through (re-worded due to the focus being taken away from the subject by peeps who have issues)

peachyprice

Did you send the paper recorded and were they definitley signed for by the court? Have you printed off the copy of the signature of the person who's hot little hand they landed in first at the court?

GobbledyGook

Unless you sent them recorded there is still a chance that they were lost (sorry 'mis-sorted) by Royal Mail.

shiprob195

You are lucky to only have a 2 week delay at your local court. When my divorce was being processed there was a 12 week delay in processing all the Decree nisi forms....the DA took just 4 working days though (after the 6 week 1 day waiting period)


I am sorry, but,the moral of the story is.......don't book to get married til you have the DA "in hand"

pigpen

My DA took 8 weeks after nisi was issued (my solicitor went on holiday so it didn't get signed/collected)

did the ex actually sign and send back? It might have nothing to do with the postal service or the courts the ex may be trying to scupper your wedding plans.

StuieUK34

The thing is, i had no reason to think the courts would be slow in processing an uncontested simple 2yr sep divorce......
If it were a free service, then yeah, wait your turn kinda thing, but paying £385 for a service this poor is bad... (no solicitor, done it all myself, and all paperwork checks out)

The forms that got sent back by the ex partner (ex partner gave them to me to post) (i posted them) were picked up by Royal Mail in our office, so the lost paperwork if any would mean it were lost at the sorting office, or most likely, lost in the received post part for the court..... (i know it goes through a couple of hands before reaching the matrimonial dept of the county court)....

I wonder if i write a pleading letter and hand deliver to the court explaining the reasons why i need the judge to see the case ASAP so he can grant the Nisi so i can get the ball rolling ?
If the courts send the paperwork (AGAIN) to the ex today, and there signed tomorrow, i'd pick it up myself and hand deliver back to the courts on Thursday...... But then that leaves 3 months total to get that absolute, is it enough time ?

peachyprice

So you didn't send it signed for then?

Having post collected from your office is no different to putting it in a post box or taking it to the post office. The bags gets slung in the exact same collection van. It could have got lost anywhere along the postal route. You also need to bear in mind that in January the Post Office were still trying to clear the backlog left from the snow, to have sent it not recorded was your own downfall, not the court.

Best not to rant at the court as you have no proof they have lost it. They will be less than helpful if you blame them for something they have not done.

pigpen

3 months should be enough time.. providing the courts view it and issue the nisi asap

rpc

GobbledyGook wrote: »

Unless you sent them recorded there is still a chance that they were lost (sorry 'mis-sorted) by Royal Mail.

Recorded doesn't offer any better chance of getting delivered than regular first - recorded is processed as normal mail and the only difference is the signature on delivery.

Special delivery is handled differently and tracked throughout.

I suspect the Royal Mail are more likely to have lost something than the courts, but it doesn't really matter now. Best just crack on getting a new set of papers signed. OP's problem is that she booked a wedding before getting the nisi - rather brave IMHO!

floss2

rpc wrote: »

...OP's problem is that she booked a wedding before getting the nisi - rather brave IMHO!

And it is unlikely that any insurance will cover cancellation "because the DA didn't get issued when we thought it would"....

dmg24

peachyprice wrote: »

So you didn't send it signed for then?

Having post collected from your office is no different to putting it in a post box or taking it to the post office. The bags gets slung in the exact same collection van. It could have got lost anywhere along the postal route. You also need to bear in mind that in January the Post Office were still trying to clear the backlog left from the snow, to have sent it not recorded was your own downfall, not the court.

Best not to rant at the court as you have no proof they have lost it. They will be less than helpful if you blame them for something they have not done.

He seems to be avoiding your question!

rpc wrote: »

Recorded doesn't offer any better chance of getting delivered than regular first - recorded is processed as normal mail and the only difference is the signature on delivery.

Special delivery is handled differently and tracked throughout.

I suspect the Royal Mail are more likely to have lost something than the courts, but it doesn't really matter now. Best just crack on getting a new set of papers signed. OP's problem is that she booked a wedding before getting the nisi - rather brave IMHO!

The issue here is proving delivery, which the OP cannot do.