The Clerk of the Court gives your spouse until “X” date to file an answer to your Petition. We call this “the Return Date.” That date gives us enough time to run your ad for 4 weeks. It also gives your spouse 30 days to file an answer. If you wait until your spouse has less than 30 days to respond, you will have to refile your Petition. This is why you should not delay.
Publishing your Legal Notice with us is easy. Just fill out the form below and send it. We check the information, then put it into a format that we can publish, and get right back to you. That starts the process.
OK, so what happens next?
1) We send the Notice back to you. You look it over, make any changes or corrections needed and let us know what has to be fixed.
2) When you approve the final form, we schedule the Notice to run in the paper and let you know the publication dates.
4) We invoice you for $120.
That’s it! That’s how simple it is.
Our prices are low because once we schedule the Notice for publication, YOU WILL NOT HEAR FROM US AGAIN UNTIL the 4 weeks are up. This is how we keep our legal advertising rates so low. We make sure you understand the process, then we move on. And we don’t spend any more time on your file. Talking to you on the phone, emailing you, texting you, sending you copies of the newspaper–- these are the things that increase the cost of our service.
5) After the 4th run, we will send you our Affidavit of Publication. The Affidavit tells the Clerk that your ad ran for the required 4 weeks. This is the document you will take back to the Clerk of the Court– but only AFTER your spouse’s time for answering is up. (We explain this in detail in this last email.)
6) So, the process is automatic. You will not have to call. You will receive the Affidavit on the last day your notice runs in your email inbox on or before 8:00 AM. We request that you sign a receipt saying you got it. If you don’t sign the email receipt, we will automatically resend the email. If you do not get an email, make sure you have paid the invoice. Your account must be paid in full for an Affidavit to be sent.
We’ve been publishing legal notices since 1993. So you can relax. You’re in good hands.
