{"id":880,"date":"2023-04-27T18:37:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T18:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.divorcingoptions.com\/Blog\/?p=880"},"modified":"2023-04-27T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T18:37:10","slug":"divorce-basics-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.divorcingoptions.com\/Blog\/divorce-basics-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Divorce Basics &#8211; What You Need to Know  &#8212;  A Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.divorcingoptions.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/need-to-know.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong><em>For Your Information: Help for Nice people during a nasty time!<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Anthony C. Adamopoulos, Divorce Mediator, Collaborative Divorce Attorney, Divorce Arbitrator,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Topsfield, Massachusetts, DivorcingOptions.com, 978-744-9591 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">Facing Divorce? Basic Information For You<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Divorce is not a nice experience. This Divorce Information Series will explain the basics. It assumes you have made a real effort at saving the marriage and that divorce is inevitable.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><u>Goals FOR the Massachusetts Divorce Process<\/u><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Goal #1- Get Permission to Divorce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">You do <em>not<\/em> have a right to a divorce, so of course this has to be goal number one. Except for unusual circumstances, if properly requested, the court will grant a divorce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Getting permission to divorce is relatively simple, compared to achieving Goal #2. Your attorney will handle this. If you will not hire a divorce attorney you will have to learn how to do it yourself using the <a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/divorce\">Commonwealth\u2019s help site.<\/a> Or, learning how to do it from a <a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"https:\/\/divorcingoptions.com\/Handouts\/Limited_Representation_PDF_Handout_Version.pdf\">divorce attorney specially trained and listed by the Family Court as a Limited Assistance Attorney.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Goal #2 &#8211; How to handle the kids, support and the division of property?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">\u00a0You will need to know, going forward, how the children will be cared for, for example, with whom will they live and how will they be financially supported?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">You will need to know how all of the income will be moved around so that each spouse, as much as possible, ends up with a standard of living similar to what they had before the divorce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">You will need to know how all the property, real or personal, no matter in whose name, will be divided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">As for Goal #2, simply put, either the Family Court Judge will decide their self, after a trial, about your children, your support and the division of your property. Or, you and your spouse will submit a jointly prepared Separation Agreement addressing all of those issues with a request that instead of a trial and the judge\u2019s opinion, the Separation Agreement be used.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Anthony C. Adamopoulos, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>In the next edition, I will cover more basics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Your Information: Help for Nice people during a nasty time! By Anthony C. Adamopoulos, Divorce Mediator, Collaborative Divorce Attorney, Divorce Arbitrator,\u00a0Topsfield, Massachusetts, DivorcingOptions.com, 978-744-9591 Facing Divorce? Basic Information For You Divorce is not a nice experience. This Divorce Information Series will explain the basics. 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