Almost a half of the marriages in the United States of America end up in divorce because of people separate for a number of reasons for cheating to being mean and falling out of love. There is nothing easy about the process because there will be issues like alimony, asset diving, child custody and support battles among many more bit before you get there, you walk have to file for the divorce first. Getting the spouse to sign the paperwork in person or through the mail will be the next step and this is usually easy for some of the people. If you cannot get hold of your spouse however, then you will need to go an extra mile and get the divorce by publication through a newspaper which is legal put a last resort. Here are the steps on how you can go about that because you cannot just call up a newspaper and have them publish the divorce notice.
First of all, you will have to go through the traditional methods of submitting an appeal for dissolution of the marriage and also pay a filing fee. You will them get a summons for the spouse from the clerk that you are supposed to get to them through all other means before getting to the publication. You are supposed to record all the attempts to find them so that they can be proof that you actually exhausted all the possible ways to track them. You and the file for the order of publication that will require a judges sign after you submit the affidavit proof of all the other attempts that you made.
If for instance you believe that they are no longer in the state, the clerk can offer further guidance and you should find this out, and the approved newspapers too before you can just choose any newspaper and go pats the legal line. With the pare work and the judges order, you will then go to the newspaper offices and get the publication. You should not just drop it on the front desk and walk away since it will be your job to follow up and make sure that they actually publish, and sign an affidavit that they did and for the orders time and return that to court. When you get here, you will have notified the spouse of the divorce and done your part, which means that you can then get on with the rest of the divorce process. If you are ready to walk away, not tracking the spouse should be the last thing that holds you back because there are such last resorts that you can put into use.