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Christine Quinn is hoping to speed up her temporary restraining order request against her estranged husband Christian Richard as he allegedly evades service.
The 35-year-old Selling Sunset veteran filed a request for alternate service of the restraining order on Monday, April 22, according to court documents obtained by Us Weekly.
She alleges in the documents that Richard — who has not publicly responded — is in hiding and has been avoiding service of the order.
Quinn's request, if granted, would offer her ways to prove that she has made enough of an effort to serve her estranged husband after he was arrested in March for assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly throwing a bag with a glass bottle in it at her, which instead hit their two-year-old son Christian Georges Dumontet.
The filing comes just days after the reality star was spotted heading into court amid her divorce from the 44-year-old tech founder.
Christine Quinn, 35, has filed a request to have alternative service on her restraining order against estranged husband Christian Richard (née Dumontet), according to documents obtained by Us Weekly; seen in June 2022 in NYC
Quinn claims that Richard, 44, has been hiding out under an alias at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills, where he has been able to evade service of the restraining order; seen in 2021 in LA
'Respondent should be permitted to serve petitioner via an alternative method of service due to petitioner’s evasion of service of the domestic violence restraining order documents,' Quinn's request reads.
Normal procedure requires that the person being restrained be served the documents informing them of the restraining order before it can go into effect, but Quinn's inability to find or serve Richard means that her order is essentially useless for now.
Persons filing restraining orders usually have to prove that they have tried to serve the target of the order multiple times, and that they believe the restrained person is attempting to evade service.
If the option for alternative service is granted by the judge, Quinn may be allowed to send copies to various work and home addresses that Richard has to show that she has made an attempt to contact him, or she could even publish notification of a restraining order in a newspaper.
Restrained persons can also be contacted electronically, but only if they consent to have the order served via email, according to the Judicial Branch of Californa.
However, that option is unlikely to work in Richard's case due to his alleged lack of communication with his estranged wife.
According to Quinn's filing, it was an unfortunate 'two-day delay' that gave Richard 'sufficient time and notice to successfully evade service of the order,' therefore preventing it from being enforced for the time being.
She adds that he would be able to 'violate [the restraining order] repeatedly without legal repercussions.
As long as Richard is not served, the TRO will not go into effect. She claims his lawyers have refused to put her in touch with him or pass on the restraining order; seen June 2023 in LA
Quinn wants a judge to allow her to pass on the order via Richard's lawyers, or to give her an alternate way to prove she has made every effort to serve her ex; seen March 27 in LA
According to Quinn, she has not seen Richard since March 20, and he has not been seen at all in public since March 27, though she believes he is currently staying at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills under an assumed name. Richard has a history of doing so publicly, as his real name is Christian Dumontet, but during appearances on Selling Sunset and in public with Quinn he has used the name Christian Richard.
'Due to my public image, [he] and I have taken additional security precautions when staying at hotels previously, such as checking in under pseudonyms or booking blocks of rooms to evade detection,' Quinn writes in her filing. 'I believe [Christian] could be employing these methods, or even paying the hotel, to conceal his location.'
Since Richard has allegedly evaded service, she has turned to a process server to help,
