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Divorce papers - signing electronically

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AboutALawyer · 23/04/2020 18:05

I sent D81/consent order papers a month ago to my solicitor. The legal assistant, who had worked for the firm for 10 years involved apparently left the firm shortly afterwards after promising to send them to court and they apparently didn't get their worked passed on.

Anyway, someone has just noticed this and has said 'oh we haven't sent your forms off because you signed them electronically [using Adobe Form Filler from my mobile phone], can you please print and scan instead' .

Note that I am not in the UK and postage normally takes a month. My printer is broken, I do not have a scanner and there is covid-19 lockdown here, so it is not a simple matter to print and scan.

It is my impression that they are messing me around and wasting my time rather than acknowledge that they did not pass on their old staff's file to the new staff.

Can someone confirm that this is correct so I can send them an email to say 'just send what I sent you a month ago', and not fuck me around any more?

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AboutALawyer · 23/04/2020 18:08

i.e. that there is nothing wrong with my electronic signature and I don't need to print anything out and scan it in again.

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TopShelf · 23/04/2020 18:11

I'd try asking on the wikivorce website,www.wikivorce.com/divorce/ op.

There's a forum with some really informed people on there.

AboutALawyer · 23/04/2020 19:10

Oh it's definitely ok, found the link

www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-Remote-Access-Family-Court-Version-4-Final-16.04.20.pdf

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