Check through the internet. Check Maryland criminal court records at the courthouse or through the Maryland Judiciary Case Search website. Call the D. Jail and the D. Correctional Treatment Facility Check the Federal Bureau of Prisons website.
Check with the Department of Motor Vehicles. Check the U. Check the Social Security Death Index website. Check local hospitals and homeless shelters they may not give you information, but you can check with them anyway. What if some of the people I ask won't give me any information?
You should state that in your motion. When should I start trying to find my spouse - before or after I file my case? When I have finished searching for my spouse, what do I do? File a Motion to Serve by Publication or Posting. You will still need to print it out and file it with the court. You can also fill it out by hand. You can attach extra sheets listing what you did to try to find your spouse. Attach copies of any documents, print-outs, and returned mail that help show your efforts.
What happens next? What if my motion is denied? Sometimes the judge will say specifically what else you should do to try to find your spouse. You can go ahead and do those things. Sometimes the judge will only say that you haven't done enough.
Then you have to figure out other efforts you can make to try to locate your spouse and show that your spouse cannot be found. After you have done these additional things, you can file the motion again.
You can refer to your previous motion and then explain the additional things you have done. If my motion for publication is granted, what happens next?
Judges usually require that a notice be published once a week for three weeks in two newspapers, although only one is required. One newspaper must be a legal newspaper; judges usually specify the Daily Washington Law Reporter.
The other can be a newspaper of general circulation that you choose, such as the Washington Post, the Washington Times, or the Washington Afro-American. After you have received the court order granting your motion, you are responsible for making arrangements with the newspapers.
Contact their classified advertisements office and explain that you need a legal notice published. You must provide the notice to the newspapers. Most judges will send you that notice together with the order granting your motion. How much does it cost? Every newspaper is different.
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