How to File for Divorce: Divorce Timeline- With Kids
Your Divorce Timeline - With Kids
Remember how easy it was to get married? Oh sure, maybe you had a big party and there were lots of details to work out. Maybe you had four guests, maybe you had four hundred. But remember the paperwork? You probably signed just one document: your marriage license.
Your divorce is more complicated than that.
But your divorce is not that complicated. Okay, so you have kids. There are a few extra steps you will have to take, and it will take a little longer, but there are still only 12 steps to get divorced. And you might not even need all of them!
You can always agree with the other party on some of the issues in your case, which will make it go more quickly.
Here's what you can expect.
You can print this page out and cross these steps off the list as you go!
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The other issue is that if the parties have been married for ten years or more, a spouse is entitled to chose their own benefit or one half of the other spouses’ benefit amount. Divorce actually has nothing to do with this – except that if the receiving spouse remarries before age 60, those benefits will cease.