Thanks everyone, but sitting on my hands is not what I was doing. He left me the first time; wanted reconciliation; left me again when we lived in another state; I came back to MI and now have jurisdictional issues with him as I am in MI and he in another state. Reinstating the MI divorce was a hail mary in order to retake jurisdiction to finalize in MI. there are no court rules governing my question, that I am aware of, which is precisely why I asked this question. Because I worked in law offices does not give me instant acess to answer.