How I Show Residency in a Complaint for Divorce in Alabama?
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Complaints for divorce are to be filed in the Circuit Court of the county in which the defendant resides, or in the Circuit Court of the county in which the parties resided when the separation occurred. If the defendant is a non-resident of Alabama, then the action must be filed in the circuit court in which the other party to the marriage resides. When the defendant is a non-resident of Alabama, the other party to the marriage must have been a bona fide resident of Alabama for six months prior to the filing of the divorce action. This must be alleged in the complaint for divorce and proven. The residency requirement only applies when the defendant is a non-resident of Alabama and requires showing the party was a resident of Alabama, not of the same county for the previous 6 months before filing. Therefore, it may be shown that the party is currently a resident of one Alabama County and prior to a certain date, was the resident of another Alabama county for a certain length of time.
