Davidterry Wrote: - And why should you want that? Many courts will only accept an original acknowledgment of service bearing the court seal.
It is difficult to imagine why anyone should want or need a 'downloadable' version. You should use the one sent to you by the court. Many courts will refuse to accept anything else. It is kind of strange really because an 'acknowledgment of service' is just that. In principle that is something that could be done on the back of a cornflake packet, 'Yes, I am the petitioner, I have received the divorce petition and I do not intend to defend the divorce'. That is a pretty good acknowledgement of service but you would be wasting your time trying to get court staff to accept it.
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They insist on their 'form' and although some courts will accept a completed copy many will also insist that the document be the original as sent from the court. These are jobsworth things really but it is pointless arguing with court staff about it.
You will never get anywhere. Another point is that if you do send any kind of acknowledgement, such as a letter to your ex saying 'I have received the petition and do not intend to contest it', then your ex can apply for deemed service using this letter as proof of service.
In fact you don't even need to do that, if you simply do nothing and the petitioner has a process server serve the petition on you, they can use that too. It puts more onus/costs on the petitioner, but using the original D10 sent by the court is not strictly necessary, because a completed AoS is not strictly necessary for the divorce to proceed.