Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““(The wife] filed a complaint for a divorcé in the trial court on December 10, 2013. The husband, who is incarcerated in a federal prison in Kentucky,[ 1 ] timely answered the wife’s complaint. On January 24, 2014, the trial court entered an order setting a final hearing in the matter for March 5, 2014. However, the materials indicate that the letter mailed to the husband containing that order was returned to the Elmore circuit clerk’s office (‘the clerk’s office’) because it had an ‘incomplete name/register number.’ A stamp on the envelope also states: ‘Return to sender, insufficient address, unable to forward.’ Although the postmark is unclear, the envelope is stamped with a date in February 2014. Furthermore, the docket sheet for this .case available on the alacourt.com Web site; which contains information and data derived from the State Judicial Information System, includes a ‘miscellaneous’ entry that states ‘bad address.’ The husband asserts that that entry reflects that the clerk’s office received a return receipt postal card indicating an insufficient address for him. “On .March 5, 2014, the hearing was held as scheduled. No recording or transcript of the hearing exists, but it is undisputed that the husband did not participate in the hearing. On March 6, 2014, the trial court entered a default judgment against the . husband and awarded the wife certain real property (‘the real property’) and a settlement check (‘.the check’) issued by the United States Department of ”

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