LAS VEGAS DIVORCE | What if my Husband refuses to sign the Las Vegas divorce papers?
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Hello, this is Daniel Wiafe with Vegas Divorce Pros out here in beautiful and sunny, awesome Las Vegas, Nevada and I am doing a video which is actually answering the question, what do you do if your husband refuses to sign the divorce papers, alright? There’s a question that we get a lot from a lot of our clients, and I’m here to answer those questions. Before we get started with this video though, I do want to make our disclaimers that are need and required by the state. Our disclaimers were actually below this video but basically, we are not attorneys. We’re not authorized to practice law. We’re document preparers and we are registered and hold a $50,000 bond as required by the state of Nevada. So, as I said before, you can look below this video to see the full disclaimer but let’s get started on this video.
So, first off you guys, make sure you subscribe to our channel and that way you’ll get a lot of great tips and training and free lessons on what you need to do when you are going through a divorce or contemplating a divorce, annulment, legal separation. What not, if you know somebody that is going through a divorce or legal separation or an annulment. Feel free to share this video with them as well, okay. But let’s answer that question, what to do if your husband refuses to sign those darn Las Vegas divorce papers, okay?
So, what you want to do ladies and gents, because anybody can be buried to a husband, right. So, what you want to do is you want to start off with a complaint for divorce. And basically, with a complaint for divorce, that is going to be a document which only requires one signature which is your signature. So, you’re going to fill that out and then you’re going to describe what you want out of the divorce. So, it’s going to ask you for pertinent information, such as your full name, date of birth, Email address, physical address. And then you are going to put down what you want in regards to property, debt, spousal support. If you guys have kids, you want to put down what you want to do in regards to custody, in regards to visitation, child support, who claims the kids for taxes.
Then also, if somebody needs to be restored back to their maiden name, you also want to go ahead and put that down as well, okay. Then, you’re going to have a cover sheet as well and then, you are going to need to have what is called a ‘Summons’. And this document basically states to your spouse once they are served that hey, you have been sued for a dissolution of marriage. And you have 21 days to respond back if you want to contest it, okay. So, you’re going to take all that and you can either take it to the courthouse, pay a $299 court filing fee as of the time of this recording, or you can file it online through a software called Odyssey. hen, you’ll just pay, you’ll scan all your documents, get it filed, you’ll pay a $303 court filing fee to get it filed online, okay. But it saves you a trip to the courthouse, okay. You go to the courthouse on Pacos Bonanza and yeah, you can literally spend a full day out there, okay.
So, once those documents have been filed, you typically need to wait about a day usually, sometimes a little bit less for the summons to get issued by the court clerk, okay. And then from that point, what you’re going to need to do is you’re going to want to have a third party, a process server or a sheriff serve the complaint, and also the summons to your spouse, okay. You want to have it them served to your husband, okay. And then at that point, you’re going to have them fill what is called an affidavit of service. This basically tells the court that your spouse in fact properly served, okay. That’s very important.
Then once your spouse is served, they have 21 days to respond back to the courthouse, okay. so, two things can happen once they’re served. Either they respond back or they don’t, okay. So, let’s go the easy path. Let’s pretend for a moment that your husband does not respond back, okay. Fingers crossed, hopefully they don’t, right. So, they don’t respond back within that 21-day time limit, then you can file a, what is called a ‘Default’. That default basically filed or signed with the court basically states that they are in default judgement and that you are moving on with finishing the case, okay.
That being said you guys, you need to make sure that all the additional paperwork has been filed with the courthouse, so you need to have an affidavit of residency, file the court. And this is a document which you have a friend, coworker, family members signed. Which basically tells the court that you have lived in Nevada for at least 6 weeks, so you need to fulfill those residency requirements. Then you are going to want to ask the court for a summary disposition. Meaning you want the court to sign off on your decree without you actually having to appear in court. So, you’re going to need to have a request for summary disposition, which is requesting that the court hears your case without you being present. And then you want to file what’s called an affidavit in support of request for some redisposition of decree of divorce.
I know that is a long word to say, and basically that affidavit is basically going to be your testimony of what you would have said to the judge, had you been in court for that hearing, okay. Then if there’s any other additional documentation that needs to be filed, then you need to file that, okay. And then once all those documents have been filed then you want to submit the decree of divorce to the judge to have him or her sign, okay. You can either email it to the proper departments or you can take it down to the family courthouse, down there on Pacos Bonanza, go to the third floor. And they’re going to have judges’ boxes and then you just put your decree in the proper box, okay. And the decree is basically stating, hey, everything’s been filed and I’m asking for the just sign off so that I can get my divorce finalized, okay.
That being said, you guys, if you do everything correctly, okay, then, and your spouse has not responded back to the divorce, then, typically, you’re looking at about a two to three-month process and your divorce will be complete, okay. And this is if your spouse is not agreeable to sign the divorce papers, okay. Now, it you can get them to sign the divorce papers, that’s going to be infinitely quicker for you and less stressful. You’re not going to pull out your hair, okay. You’re not going to be bold like me, right? But you got to do what you got to do, okay. If your spouse refuses to sign the papers, your husband refuses to sign the papers then you got to do what you got to do, right.
Now, the judge will sign up on the decree and then what they’ll do is they’ll either mail you or email you. When you sign up to Odyssey, you can put your email address in there so that’s you’re actually emailed the copy of the divorce decree, okay. Now, let’s back check for a moment, okay. So, let’s pretend that once you have served your spouse that they answer back, okay. For your spouse to answer back, they need to file what is called an answer and a counter claim, okay. And then they need to get that file to the courthouse, they have to pay a $217 court filing fee to get it filed. It’s basically them answering your divorce and them stating that hey, we I agree to this point, that point, whatever, whatever, but I disagree to these points, okay.
And then in the counterclaim portion of their document that they file, they’re basically going to make a counter to what you said and they’re basically going to state, ‘hey, this is what I want out of the divorce. So, this is what I want property wise, debt wise, spousal support wise, tax wise. If you have kids, this is what I want to do in regards to the kids and all of that,’ okay. And then, they’re going to serve you those documents, okay. And then, that’s where things can get a little bit messy, a little bit more complicated because at that point, they are contesting it, okay.
So, I’m not even going to go into all the different 10 million different scenarios that could take place if your spouse answers it, okay. But this has been a video on what you need to do if your husband refuses to sign the door’s papers out here in Las Vegas, okay. So, it can be a complicated process if you’re especially if you’re doing it yourself so if you would like some pros to do it, we are Vegas Divorce Pros. We are the pros, okay. So, make sure that you get at us. You can go to our website which is at VegasDivorcePros.com.
We will be glad to talk to you for free initially and then we’ll talk to you, discuss with you what your best options are. You let us know what you want to do and then we can get you started, okay. So, typically our prices are pretty much half of the price if not less than a typical divorce attorney in Vegas. So, again, VegasDivorcePros.com. Go to the links that are below this video. Peace, God bless you guys. It’s been a pleasure.
If you need to start a divorce, annulment or legal separation please feel free to go to www.VegasDivorcePros.com
