A thought.

[Mister Andersen]

Should there be a law protecting deployed service personnel from being served with a divorce? Because it seems to me that divorcing someone who is away and likely undergoing trauma in the service of their country is a low and repugnant act. Especially iof the marriage occurred while the person was already enlisted.

[ThunderMonkey]

Should there be a law protecting deployed service personnel from being served with a divorce? Because it seems to me that divorcing someone who is away and likely undergoing trauma in the service of their country is a low and repugnant act. Especially iof the marriage occurred while the person was already enlisted.

I don't think so. Granted it's a cowardly act to divorce someone that is deployed, but I believe there are scenarios in which that we can't even fathom that it would be a bad idea not to do so.

[Aragathor]

Should there be a law protecting deployed service personnel from being served with a divorce?

No, forbidding it outright would cut into too many freedoms. What could be done is a special law that would effectively freeze the proceedings and make it a crime to appropriate possessions.
This would protect the serviceman/-woman from coming home and facing the fact that his ex took everything he/she owned.

Because it seems to me that divorcing someone who is away and likely undergoing trauma in the service of their country is a low and repugnant act.

Of course it is low, but we humans define ourselves by the ability to go lower than a snake full of buckshot.

[MilitiaJim]

A divorce against a deployed US service man or woman will not proceed until they return.  This goes for most legal actions.

[Psion]

A divorce against a deployed US service man or woman will not proceed until they return.  This goes for most legal actions.

Define "deployed". 'Cause my ex divorced my while I was on a deterrent patrol.

[MilitiaJim]

A divorce against a deployed US service man or woman will not proceed until they return.  This goes for most legal actions.

Define "deployed". 'Cause my ex divorced my while I was on a deterrent patrol.

Well for me they pushed back a speeding ticket court date until I came back from a Title 10 National Guard mobilization.  A couple of my buddies had divorces start, but the court appearance parts waited until they came home.

I want to say that your ex's lawyer pulled a fast one on JAG, or JAG just wasn't doing their job, since your inability to appear in court should have held up the whole matter until you could appear.

[glimmerrat]

Bear in mind for some women such circumstance are the only way of escaping an abusive relationship. Why should they let other people guilt-trip them into staying in the relationship? That's pretty fucked. I've known someone in that very situation, so please understand that there are extenuating (sp?) circumstances for some people, and not all soldiers are patriotic angels. They're people, and just like everyone else some of them are great, and some are pricks.

That said, I don't know what the situation is in the UK, but I do hope it's the same as in the US. At the very least the legal procedings should be delayed until said person's return.