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  • First, this is not the place to ask this question. Any local attorney or judge can answer it. If you don't have an attorney, Legal Aid can provide one cheap or free, depending on your financial situation. Look up Legal Aid, or ask your local Clerk of Court. Second, if you haven't seen him for eight years, divorce should be about as routine as renewing your license plate. If there has been no contact at all, seven years is the statute of limitations. You could get the court to declare him dead, and you'd become a widow. Third, don't come to a gaggle of anonymous Yahoos for legal advice. That's not smart. It could affect the rest of your life.
  • Why do you want a divorce anyway? Do you have children by your (de facto ex) husband? If so, are they with you or with him? If he lives in another country, is (he or was he) a foreign citizen or national? Or is he an expatriate American? Are YOU an American citizen? You could also claim abandonment. But ask an attorney about your legal rights with that. If you're happy living alone, it shouldn't matter. But if you're seeing someone who you think might propose to you, then you could become a bigamist. But if you're legally a widow, you've got no problem, and might even inherit money or property in that "other country." But if you try to track him in the other country Final conclusion: it MAY be dead simple, or it could be more complicated than a politician's conscience.

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