The Importance Of Retaining A Divorce Lawyer

If you are getting divorced, you are going to want to retain a divorce lawyer for your needs. To help you understand the importance of this, you will want to review the following points.

Easily Settle Support Matters

Whether you are going to be on the receiving or paying end of a child or spousal support order, you will want to make sure that you are getting a fair deal. To help ensure that you do, you will want to have a divorce lawyer review everything for you. The best thing to do is to allow your divorce lawyer to negotiate on your behalf. Your lawyer will do this by contacting the lawyer that represents your soon-to-be ex-spouse. If he or she does not have legal representation, your lawyer will contact him or her directly. While you could try to negotiate these things on your own, by having a lawyer involved, it is easier to refrain from ending up in arguments with the person you are separating from. It may also relieve a lot of stress from you. If the two of you cannot reach an agreement, your lawyer will represent you in court when a judge will create the final support order.

Keep Your Share Of The Marital Property

Marital property includes all of the things that you and your soon-to-be ex-spouse acquired during the course of your marriage. This includes things such as bank accounts, savings bonds, furniture, rental properties, family home, vacation home, recreational vehicles, antiques, and all cars, trucks, and vans. The best thing to do is to see if the two of you can split the marital property so that each person is getting an equal share, or at least close to it, and everyone is happy. Your lawyer can help negotiate this process and if the property itself cannot be split, things can be sold and then the money split between the two of you.

Protect Your Personal Assets 

If some of the money and property that you own were yours before you ever got married, you will want a divorce lawyer to help protect those things for you, as your soon-to-be ex-spouse has no legal claim to them. Whether this was a savings account that you had built up or an inheritance of money or property, you may want to keep those for yourself instead of sharing them with your soon-to-be ex-spouse.

File All Documents With The Courts

Anything and everything that is agreed upon between you and your soon-to-be ex-spouse needs to be properly documented and filed with the court house in order for it to be an official order. Your divorce lawyer can help draw up those papers and file them at the court house. He or she can then make sure that you will have a copy of all final orders pertaining to the divorce.

For more information, talk to a professional like Grenadier, Starace, Duffett & Levi, P.C.


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