Answer the following questions by examining your statutory code. Your answers will also become part of the Divorce Litigation Flowchart at the end of this chapter. 

a. What must a complaint for divorce contain? Write your response in step 3 at the end of the chapter.

b. Must the complaint be subscribed and/or verified? If so, by whom? Write your response in step 4 at the end of the chapter.

c. Where is the complaint served and filed? Write your response in step 5 at the end of the chapter.

d. What is the fee for filing a divorce complaint in your state? Write your answer in step 6 at the end of the chapter.

e. What happens if a party seeking a divorce cannot afford the filing fee or any court costs? Can he or she proceed as a poor person and thereby have these fees and costs waived?

f. Who may serve process in your state? Write your answer in step 7 at the end of the chapter.

g. How is personal service made on an individual? Write your answer in step 8 at the end of the chapter.

h. In a divorce action, when can substituted service be used?

i. How is substituted service made? By publication of a notice? By posting a notice? By other methods? Summarize your answer in step 9 at the end of the chapter.

j. How is proof of service made? Write your answer in step 10 at the end of the chapter.

k. Does your state have a long-arm statute for divorce actions? If so, when can it be used?

l. How many days does the defendant have to answer the complaint? Write your response in step 11 at the end of the chapter.

m. Must the answer be subscribed and/or verified? If so, by whom? Write your response in step 12 at the end of the chapter.

n. Must the defendant specifically plead all available affirmative defenses (i.e., those defenses that raise facts not stated in the complaint) in the answer? Write your response in step 13 at the end of the chapter.

o. Where and how is the answer served and filed? Write your response in step 14 at the end of the chapter.

p. How many days does the plaintiff have to reply to any counterclaims of the defendant? Write your response in step 15 at the end of the chapter.

q. Where and how is the reply of the plaintiff served and filed? Write your response in step 16 at the end of the chapter.

Step 3 What must a complaint for divorce contain?
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Step 4 Must the complaint be subscribed and/or verified? If so, by whom?
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Step 5 Where is the complaint served and filed?
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Step 6 What is the filing fee for a divorce?
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Step 7 Who may serve process?
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Step 8 How is personal service made on an individual?
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Step 9 In divorce actions, how is substituted service made?
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Step 10 How is proof of service made?
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Step 11 How many days does the defendant have to answer the complaint?
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Step 12 Must the defendant’s answer be subscribed and/or verified? If so,
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Step 13 Must the defendant specifically plead all available affirmative defenses
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Step 14 Where and how is the answer served and filed?
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Step 15 How many days does the plaintiff have to reply to any counterclaims  of the defendant?

Step 16 Where and how is the reply of the plaintiff served and filed?