How to get a divorce from overseas?

[larenzo]

Hi,
I am in California and my husband is currently in Europe. After a year of marriage, he received his green card 2 weeks ago after which he left to visit his family due to their health issues. So it's been 2 weeks that he holds his green card and while overseas, I want to get a divorce due to irreconcilable differences. He is completely under the influence of his control freak mom and easily swayed by her influence although he claims that it isn't so. So we keep arguing across the ocean for a week now.

1) I want to be granted divorce by him...how can he do that from overseas?

2) Can I go to my local courthouse/civic center (which ever) and file divorce there without even bothering to notify my husband about when I do this? He's scared to loose his green card, but I've sensed some BS on his part...he now claims that since he is a genius (lol) and there is no one like him, my parents should buy him a house and do everything for the fact that I am with a guy like him. I'm coming from a culture where the wedding and the house is provided by the husband's parents, while everything that has to do with the interior of the house is the responsibility of the the girl's side. He seems very ungrateful and seems like that BS is coming from his mom...who is a psycho. Her son came to this country without any dime, and she was giving me ideas over skype like how my father and her son should open up business together (son not having a dime in his pocket lol), how in the Greek culture it is the woman's family that buys a house for their son-in-law, BUT we are NOT Greek LOLOLOL...imagine that! ha!

What are my options to divorce him without really having too much contact with him? What happens to his green card over this if he just received it? PLEASE advise as I am confused and a bit lost. Not even sure if I should wait with this divorce or shove the divorce up his b**** as soon as I can.

[spengler]

You just need to hire an attorney. Your attorney can serve him with the divorce papers even if he is in Europe.