in desperate need of advice

I left my husband back in Virgina and came to Texas in the year of 1988. I remarried in 2000. This man is alot younger than I am but we get along great. I guess I still feel young in my mind. Well, what I need is advice on how to find out if my other husband got a divorce after I left him. I have tried people searches and have payed out alot of money doing so. He is from El Savidor, and there are a lot of men with his name. He may have even went back to El Savidor. I need to have proof of such of a divorce. I left him because he was phisically abusive. I read some states consider a spouse as deceased if no contact has been made over a period of time. We have had no contact as of 1988. Please can some one Help me.

Probably the easiest and most accurate way to discover what happened to your husband would be to hire a private investigator. However, that's also probably one of the more expensive ways to do so.

There are several websites that claim to do marriage and divorce record searches, though I have no idea of how well they work.

As you are probably aware, your second marriage will be voided if you were still married to your first husband.

Good luck.

I would concur with this opinion in that most companies/websites access only public records, which are as available to the layperson as anyone else. For fees ranging from $15 to several hundred, the average background or locater search involves nothing more than locating the particular county involved and searching through archived birth, death and marriage records, federal or state criminal records, tax records, along with listed telephone numbers and/or addresses (to name a few.) Those particular court records, depending on the state, are sometimes only available through written request and in some cases, documented reasons for the particular request. You ARE entitled to a copy of the recorded divorce decree in that you were named in the suit but finding it will most likely require the services of a private investigator. Unless you have access to specific information, i.e. social security number, you are in effect "looking for a needle in a haystack" on your own, especially if searching for someone with a common surname. From your post, it sounds as if you've already tried that route.

Much good luck to you.