A 51-year-old was amazed to find out last year that she was divorced. According to her husband, she is said to have been lost. Therefore, the district court of Willisau LU declared the couple divorced.
As “central plus» reported, the man filed for divorce at the Willisau District Court in 2020. He claimed not to have seen his wife since 2015. The now 80-year-old described the search for his wife to the court in detail and even claimed that his estranged wife was no longer in the country. This is said to have resulted in a request to the Zurich Migration Office. There is also no indication on social media and on the Internet where she might be.
Husband wanted to get divorced in 2018
The judge then made short work of it: he published an appeal in the Luzerner Kantonsblatt that the woman should comment on her husband’s divorce suit. If the ad remains unanswered, the court will assume that she will refrain from a court hearing and would decide in the interests of the man.
That’s how it happened. Without the woman being able to comment, her marriage was declared divorced. As the newspaper continues to write, the house blessing is said to have been wrong for the spouses for a long time. As early as 2015, a Zurich court had declared the two officially separate. Since this marriage protection procedure is the preliminary stage of divorce, the way there was already paved.
In 2018, the man then filed for divorce in the canton of Zurich – and failed. The Zurich court declared itself not responsible: the woman was no longer resident in the canton. In fact, she had registered in a Lucerne suburb and was therefore officially deregistered in Zurich.
Now they are married once more
Two years later, according to “Zentralplus”, the man made a second attempt at the Willisau district court – this time successfully. It was only a year later that the woman, who, contrary to what her ex-husband said, still lived in Switzerland, got wind of the divorce – and was blown away.
She immediately asked the Willisau district court to reverse this. When that didn’t work, she submitted her request to the cantonal court – and found a sympathetic ear. It declared the divorce void and reprimanded the Willisau district court for not investigating the woman’s whereregardings and simply believing her husband.
The court also hummed at him to reimburse his wife – now newly married, so to speak – 7,000 francs in court and legal fees. But it’s unclear whether he’ll even notice. He now lives in Thailand. (dzc)
