Many married couples decide they no longer want to be together, but that doesn’t always mean they are going to get divorced. In fact, some couples choose to be legally separated instead of going through the divorce process. A legal…
Many married couples decide they no longer want to be together, but that doesn’t always mean they are going to get divorced. In fact, some couples choose to be legally separated instead of going through the divorce process. A legal…
Because a divorce case cannot begin without one of the spouses initiating it (by petitioning or filing for divorce), there are many advantages to being the one who does start the divorce process. Being the Petitioner, as the phrase has…
If you are the recipient of a Summons/Complaint because of a pending divorce, you have twenty (20) days to respond. To respond to the summons, you must file what is known as the Answer. Usually, your attorney will draft up…
An alternative to taking your divorce to trial is divorce mediation, which is where you and your soon-to-be-ex-spouse will decide how the marital assets are divided and other aspects of dissolving the marriage that a judge would usually preside over….
A “fault divorce” is not very common, and most states don’t even recognize them. In the states that do recognize this type of divorce, it is defined as a spouses requesting a divorce be granted on the grounds of some…
Divorce isn’t only an ugly process; it’s an expensive one, too. And not only have that, 21st-century divorces tended to last upwards of seven months to a year. And as one would imagine, many spouses cannot afford to pay their…
A controversial, yet sometimes useful tactic used by parties of a divorce case is to record a phone conversation between the spouses, usually one spouse doing so in secret from the other. The idea is that the unknowing spouse will…
For most people who are going through a divorce, getting through it as quickly as possible is the main goal. After all, divorces can be very painful and the only way you can start moving on is by getting past…
Here’s how they’re typically found during a divorce case. Because of the fact that assets, which may have at one point belonged to one spouse, often become shared between the two during or after a divorce, some spouses try to…
When the divorce proceedings are finished, it is important to update and change documents that are not included in the divorce judgment. If one fails to do something such as updating who their beneficiary is to your IRA, which most…