Wheeler, TX Divorce Law Firms & Lawyers

If you and your husband have lived together in Ohio, you can file for divorce after living here 6 months. If your husband does not, or has not, lived in Ohio with you, Ohio does not have jurisdiction over him. What that means is that you can file, but if he challenges jurisdiction, you cannot proceed. If he just doesn't respond, you can complete the divorce, but your husband could later argue the divorce is void for lack of jurisdiction. As for filing in Texas, if you don't live there, you probably cannot file there, but you would have to consult a Texas lawyer about that.

You have not stated which 'divorce papers' you mean. If the document you are thinking of is a Marital Settlement Agreement which he won't sign, a good way to move things off dead center is to ask the Court for a pre-trial conference, to determine the issues which are contested, and to schedule a trial. That usually gets things moving.

Is South Carolina you can only get divorced for "cause". South Carolina does not have no-fault divorce. The grounds for divorce in South Carolina are: adultery, habitual drunkenness, physical cruelty, and one year's continuous separation or abandonment. Many people in SC will separate, wait for one year to pass, and then file for divorce based upon the separation.