Is the judgment of suing for divorce electronic?

In the course of daily divorce cases, this lawyer found that many parties think that litigation is a very important and serious matter, and the court cannot serve litigation documents to itself by electronic means such as email, WeChat and SMS.

For the above understanding, the divorce lawyer thinks it is wrong. Although divorce proceedings are a very important and serious matter, under certain conditions, electronic means can still be used as one of the delivery methods. After all, electronic means are faster and more efficient. In this regard, China's laws stipulated many years ago that the court can serve litigation documents other than judgments, conciliation statements and rulings by fax or e-mail. Now, the Civil Procedure Law has expanded it, unifying it into "electronic mode" and allowing the court to serve judgments, conciliation statements and rulings electronically.

Then, what should be included in the "electronic method" referred to in the law? In this regard, the lawyer believes that due to the rapid development of science and technology, various electronic methods emerge one after another. From now on, people's relatively primary information transmission methods such as fax, email and QQ have reached the stage of taking WeChat as the main communication mode. There are even ZOOM, WhatsApp, Twitter and so on abroad. I believe that with the progress of science and technology, there will be more ways, and at the same time, the existing electronic ways may be gradually eliminated. It can be seen that a law with the goal of stability and permanence is difficult to be completely stipulated by enumeration, but can only be summarized by the word "electronic way".

According to the experience of our marriage lawyers, the main electronic ways that China courts can use as delivery channels are: fax, email, QQ, WeChat and so on. Wechat and email are more common. The reason why other methods cannot be used is that it is difficult to determine the identity of the recipient, to keep it secret, or to confirm whether it has been received, so it is not used.

Electronic delivery has an important premise, that is, the consent of the parties must be obtained. At the same time, the law also stipulates that "if the addressee requests to provide paper documents, the people's court shall provide judgments, rulings and conciliation statements served electronically."