Legal Question in Family Law in California

I'm not a family law practitioner. I'm not sure that you need to run an ad. If you do, however, there are many newspapers that will place the ad for you. You can call the newspapers and tell them what you intend -- i.e. that you need to run a legal ad. They will tell you what you need to provide to them, where to send it, and how much to pay. I like to run legal ads in community based newspapers to give them the business, but you can run it in papers such as the Daily Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, or almost any other newspaper, as well.

There is no ad to be run to get a divorce, unless you have to serve the petition by publication. If you are serving by publication, you first have to do a LOT of other things, and then get the court's permission to do it that way. At that point the court clerk should have information for you on how and where you can publish in your jurisdiction. Unless you have a court order to serve the petition by publication, however, there is no ad for you to publish and you are confused about something.