That is correct. A judge recently allowed a woman to serve her estranged husband via Facebook in order to initiate a divorce proceeding. In New York a woman named, Ellanora Arthur Baidoo has been trying to divorce her husband for years. However, her estranged husband has proven quite skillful at evading the litany of sheriffs or private process servers attempting to hand him those crucial divorce documents.
The husband has been stating to his wife over the phone he has no fixed address or place of employment, words that can make service a nightmare. After attempting all other methods Elenora filed an application for service by other means, namely social media.
Justice Matthew Cooper ruled the “advent and ascendancy of social media,” means sites like Facebook and Twitter are the “next frontier” as “forums through which a summons can be delivered.” However to issue a summons it was necessary for Elenora to prove it was her husband’s Facebook account and that he consistently logs in to it.
If her husband refuses the summons via Facebook then Elenora will be allowed to move forward with a divorce by default.