Playing Nice Does Not Always Work
Your divorce can cost you a lot of money and time if you are
not careful. Remember that a divorce is
filing a lawsuit and then pursuing it to the end, which may mean going to trial
if you and your spouse cannot agree.
Going to trial means leaving it up to the judge to decide what he/she
thinks is best for you and your children if you have them. The uncertainty can be unsettling.
There are situations where your spouse or even you may not
want to finalize the divorce process for whatever reason. Usually this occurs when one of you is happy
with the status quo. Your spouse has
sole custody and you are paying child support so why would they be in a hurry? This is especially true when the court has
entered temporary orders setting these types of things until the judge makes
the final determination at trial.
When your spouse does not want to change the status quo, you
can be left with a battle to get the status quo changed. True the court rules do try and move things
along, but they offer minimal protection to the party who is not satisfied with
the status quo. That is when you have to
start finding ways to get the court to change the status quo. If you sit back and do nothing, it will cost
you move in the long run and your divorce may never actually happen. That can be frustrating.
You can always consider pushing the mediation date forward by
filing a motion to order the parties into mediation. You can, if your situation warrants it, ask the
court to modify the temporary orders. You
can also send out your document requests and supply your documents as soon as
possible. There sometimes is an
advantage to no sitting back and playing nice.
If you have any questions, please contact Attorney Drew at
www.attorneydrew.com or andrew@gillilandlaw.com.
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