WomensLaw serves and supports all survivors, no matter their sex or gender.

Hotline

Divorce

My ex-husband keeps using my address for his bills, etc. What should I do?

Do you have any communication with your ex? It is a safe situation for you to ask him to change those addresses. Or are you in communication with anyone from his family that may be willing to talk to him about it? If that is not possible, or you think he won’t change it, you may want to ask the post office what to do with mail that is addressed to someone who doesn’t live at your home - perhaps they will tell you to write “return to sender” on the mail and put it back in the mailbox so that the company will get those bills back and figure out he doesn’t live there. I am not sure what the procedure would be but hopefully your local post office can tell you.

Do you think that he is using your personal information (such as your name and Social Security number) to open up accounts and credit cards, etc. If you have any evidence that he is committing identify theft, you may want to contact local authorities to see what the best thing to do is.

If you had a divorce attorney, another idea is to ask that attorney if there is anything written in the divorce order about him using a different address - if so, then perhaps an attorney can tell you if he is violating the divorce order if he continues to utilize your address.