You can run from divorce papers, but you can’t hide from them…
A Manhattan Supreme Court has made a landmark ruling by allowing a 26-year-old nurse to legally serve her elusive husband with divorce papers through Facebook.
According to a report in the New York Daily News, 26-year-old Ellanora Baidoo tied the knot with her husband in a civil ceremony back in 2009, but the relationship took a turn for the worse when Baidoo’s husband, Victor Sena Blood-Dzraku, “reneged on his promise to have a traditional Ghanaian wedding ceremony”.
The New York Daily News goes on to say that while the wedding was never consummated and the husband and wife never lived together, “Blood-Dzraku apparently still doesn’t want a divorce.”
Speaking about the case, Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper said: “[The] last address plaintiff has for defendant is an apartment that he vacated in 2011.
“[Baidoo] has spoken with [Blood-Dzraku] by telephone on occasion and he has told her that he has no fixed address and no place of employment. He has also refused to make himself available to be served with divorce papers.”
Baidoo’s lawyer has now been granted permission to message Blood-Dzraku divorce papers via Facebook “once a week for three consecutive weeks or until acknowledged”.
Excuse us while we check our ‘Other’ messages folder on Facebook, just in case…
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