Last week, my lawyer sent me on what has become a wild goose chase. 
He suggested that we obtain a record of my stbx's previous Canadian divorce. There could be information which might contradict claims he is making now - in the year 2013.
So.... off I went to the court house (yike... the lines... the staff tactics to cope with the craziness of that place).... to obtain this record. I had to wait almost a full hour... interesting/revealing things to observe there!
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Anyway, my stbx's last divorce was just before 2000. Therefore, the record is not in their database. They could not instantly identify the relevant file number.
So.... they told me to call the Central Divorce Registry (i.e. nation-wide records of divorce) - 613-957-4519.
When I finally was able to speak with a living, breathing person at that place... I was informed that they would not provide the file number because I was not one of the parties in that divorce.
They suggested that the laws involved at the federal level are different than those at the provinicial level (i.e. Ontario in my case). They "guessed" this when I probed why the staff at the Ottawa Courthouse assumed that I would be able to obtain that number by calling them.
I then called the "direct" number of the Ottawa Courthouse staff member with whom I had spoken face-to-face initially. Of course, I reached her voicemail only... and she is not replying to my enquiry about what to do now. (She had assumed that I would call and leave the file number along with the other details I already had known.)
Does anyone know about obtaining divorce file numbers - pre-2000, province of Ontario, Ottawa courthouse?
He suggested that we obtain a record of my stbx's previous Canadian divorce. There could be information which might contradict claims he is making now - in the year 2013.
So.... off I went to the court house (yike... the lines... the staff tactics to cope with the craziness of that place).... to obtain this record. I had to wait almost a full hour... interesting/revealing things to observe there!
>>>
Anyway, my stbx's last divorce was just before 2000. Therefore, the record is not in their database. They could not instantly identify the relevant file number.
So.... they told me to call the Central Divorce Registry (i.e. nation-wide records of divorce) - 613-957-4519.
When I finally was able to speak with a living, breathing person at that place... I was informed that they would not provide the file number because I was not one of the parties in that divorce.
They suggested that the laws involved at the federal level are different than those at the provinicial level (i.e. Ontario in my case). They "guessed" this when I probed why the staff at the Ottawa Courthouse assumed that I would be able to obtain that number by calling them.
I then called the "direct" number of the Ottawa Courthouse staff member with whom I had spoken face-to-face initially. Of course, I reached her voicemail only... and she is not replying to my enquiry about what to do now. (She had assumed that I would call and leave the file number along with the other details I already had known.)
Does anyone know about obtaining divorce file numbers - pre-2000, province of Ontario, Ottawa courthouse?
