OKLAHOMA Part 7

1. Where do I file for divorce?

Oklahoma law requires that you must be a resident of the state of Oklahoma for more than six (6) months and a resident of your county for more than thirty (30) days before you may file for a divorce.

If you have not lived in Oklahoma for six (6) months then you may file for an action called separate maintenance or legal separation. This will allow you to receive much of the relief that a divorce action provides: property division, custody, child support, and alimony. Then after six (6) months your separate maintenance action may be amended to a divorce.