lasvegas wedding

vegaskev1975

Hi all, hoping to get some advice here. i got married in las vegas in january 2005. Then got married again in church to the same woman in september 2007. We have since seperated and id like to get my marraige in lasvegas sorted before i go about divorcing here in ireland.

Just wondering if anyone has any experience of divorcing in vegas as ive hear a lot of conflicting stories. Any comments or advice would be greatly appreciated...
thanks kevin

GerardKeating

vegaskev1975 wrote: »

Hi all, hoping to get some advice here. i got married in las vegas in january 2005. Then got married again in church to the same woman in september 2007. We have since seperated and id like to get my marraige in lasvegas sorted before i go about divorcing here in ireland.

Just wondering if anyone has any experience of divorcing in vegas as ive hear a lot of conflicting stories. Any comments or advice would be greatly appreciated...
thanks kevin

Did you do the full civil thing here in Ireland, or just a church wedding..

dermot_sheehan

You only divorce once, in the country where you are domiciled, which if you are born and bred in ireland, is ireland.

Reloc8

Actually the divorce will be recognised in this country if validly procured in a country in which either spouse is domiciled, presuming the marriage is after 1986. If it predated 1986 both spouses would have to be domiciled in that country.

Being born and bred in a given country does not always mean you retain your domicile of birth, although most people remain domiciled in their place of birth.

Best advice I can give you OP is go to a solicitor about it all.

vegaskev1975

thanks guys, appreciate the advice

dermot_sheehan

I suppose I should have given a more detailed guide to what constituted domicile, I guessed he had an irish domicile of origin.

You forgot about ordinary residencer under regulation 2201/2003 which can be used to ground a divorce in another eu member state Reloc8.

Reloc8

I wasn't purporting to give comprehensive advice on how to get divorced. I was just commenting on your rolled up assertion that you only get divorced in the country in which you are domiciled and that this is always the country in which you were born and bred...but eh...fair enough...you got me :rolleyes:

Providing the link to the regulations would be useful http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32003R2201:EN:HTML They obviously allow divorce & recognition of same on grounds which have absolutely nothing to do with domicile.

OP still needs to go to a solicitor though.

InTheTrees

It brings up an interesting question

Just as you can go to las vegas for a quick marriage, can you go to Mexico for a quick divorce? (AFAIK they have quick one party divorces in Mexico).

I assume a mexican divorce is legal in ireland?

myxi

To get a divorce in Nevada you need to reside in the State for a period of 6 weeks prior to filing papers. You also need to show at the time of filing papers that you intend to stay in the State "indefinitely". A divorce is usually granted in 2 weeks.

6 weeks isn't bad it used to be a year!

Our man in Havana

There used to be many scams using accommodation addresses to get fast divorces in Nevada. The person would use a mates address and file on that basis. I have heard of cases where other US states have struck down a divorce obtained in Nevada by these means.