Turnersville, NJ Divorce Law Firms & Lawyers

Yes - you can make it part of the Judgment of divorce.  you can still contact the court, by mail, and ask that the judgment of divorce include a provision allowing you to take back your maiden name.  you should do that quickly - and reference the docket number that was on the paperwork you signed and returned. 

Yes. The fact that your wife left you, left the state and left the country does not mean that you cannot move forward with a divorce. The biggest issue in this type of proceeding is the service of process upon your wife of the filed complaint for divorce. After you file the complaint for divorce with the court system, you then need to arrange to have a copy of that filed  complaint for divorce personally served upon your wife, with your wife signing paperwork acknowledging her receipt of the paperwork. If you cannot get her to agree to accept the paperwork and sign the acknowledgement of service of those papers, then you need to hire a process server in her country to personally serve the papers on her and then he signs a paper acknowledging that he personally served her. That paperwork is then filed with the NJ court system and then the clock can begin to run on the period time under the statute to respond.  If you don’t do it correctly ( as explained above), the court cannot proceed with a divorce matter for you. In this setting, it is probably worth your while to hire a competent divorce lawyer knowledgeable in this procedure and who has access to process servers around the world.  

What has to be paid and what doesn't have to be paid all depends on what was ordered, or what was agreed to in the property settlement agreement.