You can now serve divorce papers to your spouse through Facebook

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Technology and the Internet are quickly making it so that we never actually need to come into direct physical contact with anyone in order to live our lives. According to a ruling by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper, this includes serving divorce papers. The landmark ruling allowed a woman by the name of Ellanora Baidoo to serve divorce papers though a Facebook message to her husband who had been eluding her. 

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A Brooklyn woman scored a judge’s approval to legally change her relationship status to “single” via Facebook. In a landmark ruling, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper is allowing a nurse named Ellanora Baidoo to serve her elusive husband with divorce papers via a Facebook message. Baidoo, 26, “is granted permission serve defendant with the divorce summons using a private message through Facebook,” with her lawyer messaging Victor Sena Blood-Dzraku through her account, Cooper wrote. “This transmittal shall be repeated by plaintiff’s attorney to defendant once a week for three consecutive weeks or until acknowledged” by her hard-to-find hubby. “I think it’s new law, and it’s necessary,” said Baidoo’s lawyer, Andrew Spinnell. His client and Blood-Dzraku tied the knot back in a civil ceremony back in 2009, but their relationship crumbled when Blood-Dzraku reneged on his promise to have a traditional Ghanaian wedding ceremony as well, Spinnell said. Both are from Ghana. “She wanted their families there,” the lawyer said.

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