{"id":2874,"date":"2024-07-31T17:19:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T22:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2024-11-08T10:48:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T16:48:08","slug":"texas-court-declines-to-recognize-pakistani-divorce-due-to-lack-of-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-court-declines-to-recognize-pakistani-divorce-due-to-lack-of-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Court Declines to Recognize Pakistani Divorce Due to Lack of Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas divorces can be complicated when other potential jurisdictions are involved.\u00a0 A former husband recently <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/fifth-court-of-appeals\/2024-05-23-00837-cv.pdf?ts=1721824408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">challenged<\/a> his Texas divorce, arguing the parties had already been divorced in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The parties got married in 2009 in Pakistan and subsequently moved to Texas. The husband petitioned for divorce in Dallas County in May 2021 and the wife filed a counter-petition.\u00a0 They both alleged the had been residents of Dallas County for the preceding 90 days and domiciliaries of Texas for the preceding six months.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2022, the husband filed a \u201cNotice of Filing of Foreign Judgment\u201d and attached a \u201cDivorce Registration Certificate\u201d that had been issued in Pakistan on January 1, 2022. It showed addresses in Lahore, Pakistan for both parties for dates in September 2021, December 2021, and January 2022.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-court-declines-to-recognize-pakistani-divorce-due-to-lack-of-notice\/#more-2874\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas divorces can be complicated when other potential jurisdictions are involved.\u00a0 A former husband recently challenged his Texas divorce, arguing the parties had already been divorced in Pakistan. The parties got married in 2009 in Pakistan and subsequently moved to Texas. The husband petitioned for divorce in Dallas County in May 2021 and the wife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce","category-foreign-jurisdiction"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Texas Court Declines to Recognize Pakistani Divorce Due to Lack of Notice &#8212; Texas Divorce Attorney Blog &#8212; July 31, 2024<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Texas divorces can be complicated when other potential jurisdictions are involved.\u00a0 A former husband recently challenged his Texas divorce, arguing the &#8212; July 31, 2024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-court-declines-to-recognize-pakistani-divorce-due-to-lack-of-notice\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Texas Court Declines to Recognize Pakistani Divorce Due to Lack of Notice &#8212; 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