New York Court Permits Service of Divorce Papers by Facebook

As a follow up to our coverage of Noel B. v. Anna Maria A. (N.Y. Fam. Ct. Sept. 12, 2014), in which a New York family court adopted a very liberal service of process standard, we bring you a piece by Stephanie Gallman at CNN.com: "Divorce by Facebook: New York woman gets OK to file papers online":

Facebook may soon need to add "Just got served divorce papers" to its list of relationship statuses now that a New York judge has said the social media site is an acceptable way for a Brooklyn woman to serve her husband with a summons for divorce.

Ellanora Arthur Baidoo has been trying to divorce her husband for several years, according to her attorney, Andrew Spinnell.

But, Spinnell said, he and his client haven't been able to find Victor Sena Blood-Dzraku to serve him the papers. Baidoo has been able to reach her husband by phone and "he has told her that he has no fixed address and no place of employment," according to court documents.

"He has also refused to make himself available to be served," the document said.

After exhausting other ways of serving him the papers, Spinnell filed an application asking for "service by alternate means," in this case, via social media.

The future is now.

(Hat tip: Barnaby Grzaslewicz)

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