Finally got an email back from my "mother-in-law".
For those who don't know...
A little over 3 years ago I got married, for 3 months. Wife got sick of me playing FFXI and waiting to hear back from schools so she cheated on me and kicked me out, which is when I moved back to NY. I had filled out divorce paperwork before leaving but apparently it wasn't filled out correctly on her portion and she had to do it again. I guess she tried like 3 more times before she finally took it to Navy's legal department to have it filled out. This was all over the course of 2 years because she was getting deployed all the time etc etc
Finally this year she sent me a fresh copy I needed to fill out, which I did and sent back in April, and that was the last I heard from her. I sent emails, texts, facebook messages all with no response. I have no idea if the paperwork was submitted, rejected, processed or anything. So I emailed her mom a few times and finally got a response today...
She tells me that she has cancer and that my "wife" has been "distracted" because of it and that she is once again on deployment and thusly can not be contacted about the divorce paperwork.
The thing is, I was an IT on an aircraft carrier. I know for a fact that air crew get email accounts set up the day they show up, hell sometimes in advance if their yeoman is on their ***. So saying she can not be contacted while deployed is a load of ***.
On top of that, how is being "distracted" a valid excuse for not getting *** divorce paperwork taken care of. I would think a pending divorce should be pretty high on a persons to-do list. If it weren't for the fact that I am all the way in NY and the marriage was in CA, I would be in that courthouse everyday making sure that ***was filed.
I don't know what else I can do about it, besides getting a lawyer which I don't even know if a lawyer in NY could do anything about this.
TL;DR -
HEY KIDS, DONT GET MARRIED
edit - Get married if you want to, but make sure you do it for the right reasons and don't be stupid about it.