This is what we call “service” or “service of process” and it is a critical step in the initiation of a lawsuit. These court documents must be served on the other party. The first step in the divorce whether it be a contested or uncontested divorce, or in other family law cases is the filing of the petition with the Superior Court Clerk, who also completes the summons. ![]() I have skipped over the last several letters so figure it is time to pull the plug on this relationship.How to Serve Divorce Papers on the Other Party in Arizona Wouldn't she just have picked up the phone and called her friend?Īnd like another reviewer, I am not finishing this book and I always finish a book hoping beyond hope that there will be some redeeming qualities. Instead we had long LONG letters between Sophie and her friend (in the same city) Maggie. Perhaps the most interesting relationship was Harry and his whacko wife/non wife but they only flitted in and out of the story. BORING! This added nothing to the story nor to character development. I didn't.Īnd why did it have to be mentioned umpteen times that Sophie was a 'French Jew' and so was taking a stand by NOT eating at the Plimouth restaurant.blah blah blah. We learned more about Sophie's family, her famous parents with different last names so people were compelled to ask 'I didn't know that SHE was YOUR mother/father'.who cares. I have not been through a divorce but know those that have and I seriously doubt a client would write such long winded letters to their lawyer they read more like letters one might write to a girlfriend but not your lawyer.Īt first I cared about Mia but then as the story progressed, she grew stale and one dimensional. The legalese was overwhelming for me a non lawyer and no doubt boring for a lawyer. Other than Mia's first letter to the mistress which had only two words (first one started with F.you get the gist), the rest of the correspondence was BORING with a capital B. ![]() So when I read the first couple of pages of this book, I was expecting the same sort of brilliance. Even the Shopoholic series had some interesting twists and turns using letters, emails etc as unique ways to capture the readers' attention and still tell the story. ![]() Like some others have posted, I too am a sucker for stories that are written in different formats such as "Griffin & Sabine" trilogy by Nick Bantock or "The Tattooed Map" by Barbaar Hodgson. Read by Rebecca Lowman, Käthe Mazur, Arthur Morey, and Emily Rankin with selections read by Susan Denaker, Mark Bramhall, Fred Sanders, Mark Deakins, Kim Mai Guest, Marc Cashman, and Kimberly Farr Much like Whered You Go, Bernadette, The Divorce Papers will have you laughing aloud and thanking the literature gods for this incredible, fresh new voice in fiction. For Sophie, the whole affair sparks a hard look at her own relationshipsnot only with her parents, but with colleagues, friends, lovers, and most importantly, herself. ![]() Told through personal correspondence, office memos, emails, articles, and legal papers, this playful reinvention of the epistolary form races along with humor and heartache, exploring the complicated family dynamic that results when marriage fails. Debut novelist Susan Rieger doesnt leave a word out of place in this hilarious and expertly crafted debut that shines with the power and pleasure of storytelling. As she so disarmingly puts it: Its her first divorce, too. Sophie warns Mia that shes never handled a divorce case before, but Mia cant be put off. Daniel Durkheim, Chief of the Department of Pediatric Oncology, for custody of their ten-year-old daughter Janeand she also burns to take him down a peg. She is locked and loaded to fight her eminent and ambitious husband, Dr. After eighteen years of marriage, Mayflower descendant Mia Meiklejohn Durkheim has just been served divorce papers in a humiliating scene at the popular local restaurant, Golightlys. Everyone at Traynor, Hand knows she abhors face-to-face contact, but one weekend, with all the big partners away, Sophie must handle the intake interview for the daughter of the firms most important client. Twenty-nine-year-old Sophie Diehl is happy toiling away as a criminal law associate at an old line New England firm where she very much appreciates that most of her clients are behind bars. Witty and wonderful, sparkling and sophisticated, this debut romantic comedy brilliantly tells the story of one very messy, very high-profile divorce, and the endearingly cynical young lawyer dragooned into handling it.
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