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Start with your sister and see jurisdiction/case number where her rights were terminated. You may be able to track it from there, unless confidentiality laws prevent it.

You can always check the website for the county where the divorce was filed. If you never filed an Answer to the Divorce Petition, it is likely you were defaulted against. Once you are in default your husband had no duty to send you any more papers during the proceeding. Generally a Final Judgment is sent to the Respondent though, so you may want to look online in your file or call the Clerk of the Court to find out it if was concluded.

You state that you need to get copies of text messages, but you do not say why. If it is because you want to get a divorce, you don’t need them. As Florida is a no-fault divorce state, you do not have to prove that your husband is cheating on you in order to get a divorce. Furthermore, even if you were to prove that he cheated on you, it would not get you anything more than you would otherwise get had he not been cheating on you. That is to say, one does not get anything additional going through a divorce because our spouse cheated on us. I hope this helps. It is very difficult to accept that your spouse of 40 years is cheating on you, I wish you well.