How can I find out if I am legally seprerated from my wife after being separated 7 or more years?
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How can I find out if I am legally seprerated from my wife after being separated 7 or more years?
Asked on June 30, 2015 under Family Law, Arizona
Answers:
Anne Brady / Law Office of Anne Brady
Answered 8 years ago | Contributor
Go to the courthouse where your wife would have filed for legal separation and look up your names to see if anything was filed. Merely being physically separated is not going to cause legal separation; something has to be filed in court requesting legal separation and a judge needs to grant it.
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